So, Apple released the latest and greatest version of iTunes! Version 7.0!
So, what is good -
- the new interface is a little more clean, nice
- the new album art feature is nice
- the new gapless play feature is kinda useful
- the iTunes Music store is now the iTunes Store - I am pretty sure they will migrate to the iMedia store in the future... what does iTunes have to do with Movies??? (and so on)
- ummm, the iTunes icon has changed to a Blue eigth note on a DVD icon image...
What is bad -
- Podcast navigation is gone? - I can't surf the chapters in my CBC Radio 3 podcasts from the little icon next to the top "scrollerbar" (check that, much like Browse; podcast chapter navigation has been relegated to the controls menu and a keyboard short-cut)
- New album art feature can't seem to find 75% of my albums, you know, little known artists like, Garbage, Tool and Metallica. This might be a Canadian iTunes Store limitation though. I will give them slack on not having Buck 65 album artwork
- when playing random music the gapless play feature causes 1 second bursts of noise when switching to a song that is not the next song on the album
- the album browse feature has been moved to the View menu (or Apple-B)
So, in closing. It works, but some of the features are not fully realized (against the Canadian iTunes store) and some of the old icons have been removed. I really miss the podcast chapter navigation pulldown and I have only been using iTunes 7 for about 30 minutes... I haven't really used the movie/tv enhancements, I primarily use iTunes for music playing.
