Shane Conder's Whateveritis of Nothing

Unlike updated to iTunes 5.0, the updated to 6.0 was very smooth. It looks virtually identical to 5.0, too.

In fact, most places still refer to items in the list as songs or albums. I do notice that the bottom count of stuff says items now, rather than songs. But when you share stuff, it's still music. Actually, I don't even know if video sharing will work.

It's also still the Music Store, even though music is only a small part of what you can buy. You can also buy audiobooks, video, and podcasts (well, download them -- same basic thing).

It's really too bad they're charging for TV episodes. At 2 bucks a pop for an average of 24 episodes you'll end up paying 48 bucks for an entire season. Compare that to, well, free if you have Netflix, Broadcast TV (w/Tivo, of course), or other DVD rental or used sales you'll get it quite a bit cheaper. Sure, the DVD rental will delay the whole season until a few months after it airs, but at least you can watch them all together. ;)

The TV Shows link doesn't yet work. I'm sure that will be fixed soon.

Two bucks for the music videos is a good price. On V Cast, from Verizon, music videos are 4 bucks.

Maybe they'll do a free video Thursday or something now. ;) It would be nice if they could sign up someone other than Disney, too.

Besides a few iTunes store changes, the changes to iTunes seem fairly minimal. It seems more like an iTunes 5.1 or something. I mean, they got all the way to iTunes 4.9 then they did 5.0, 5.0.1, and now 6.0? Wow.

More info here at Apple's site, of course..

Posted by Shane on October 12, 2005 12:21 PM | Permalink