Video: iTunes 9 Home Sharing and iPhone app management

Sure, sure, the kids are all excited about iTunes LP and their fancy "lyrics" and "album art." You know what we're psyched about? Finally being able to manage our iPhone apps directly from iTunes 9. It works pretty much exactly as you'd expect, although we were able to make it do some minorly wonky things -- and we're psyched about the AutoFill-esque music sync feature that fills any remaining space on your phone with music.

We're also pumped about the new Home Sharing feature in iTunes 9, which lets you transfer content between five different machines directly without screwing around with network shares or USB drives. We've seriously been waiting for a feature like this since iTunes sharing was first launched -- it also works exactly like you'd expect, and we think it'll make managing media across multiple machines much, much easier. Videos after the break!

Home Sharing

App Management and Syncing

[(Unverified) Posted Sep 9th 2009 7:36PM]

I just updated to 3.1 and iTunes 9 and I can see the app editing panel but it appears to be grayed out, and I cant click on any of the app icons or anything- anyone else having this problem?

[Agent007 Posted Sep 9th 2009 7:47PM]

So there wasn't a "One more thing..." today???

[(Unverified) Posted Sep 9th 2009 7:48PM]

Anyone else notice the Windows 7 integration?

[(Unverified) Posted Sep 9th 2009 7:50PM]

What's with the whole error 5002 now that I try to update my iPod Touch 2nd gen 2.2.1 to 3.1.1? It worked fine for my father's iPhone on 3.0.

[logicbombde Posted Sep 10th 2009 6:24PM]

hmmm, did you pony up the 5 bucks for the new firmware?

[J3 L U N T Posted Sep 9th 2009 8:10PM]

SOMEONE PLEASE CONFIRM:

Can you upload your app configuration from your iPhone/iPod touch to iTunes??

For example: I rearranged my apps via iTunes which now are nicely updated on my iPhone. Now I am on the road and want to arrange my apps on my iPhone/iPod touch so that when I sync back later to my iTunes it will have the most recent app config I created while on the road. NOT. iTunes puts them back to what they are in the iTunes app manager. You would think it would sync the "most recent config".

Anyone else have this issue or is it me?

Thanks

[Emjay Posted Sep 9th 2009 8:55PM]

that's ill..

Engadget iphone app. Way to advertise your product:o)

[winkyeah Posted Sep 9th 2009 11:18PM]

Interesting features. I also wish the home sharing was more of an integrated sync solution for ALL content.

Good job, but PLEASE learn-to-annunciate-when-you-speak!

[AbbyNormal Posted Sep 14th 2009 2:00PM]

Why I'm pissed- they got rid of the Shopping Cart!

Ugh. I relied on that to prevent me from making impulse buys and wasting all my money...


ohhh... THAT'S why Apple got rid of it.

[(Unverified) Posted Sep 9th 2009 11:36PM]

fyi, if you hold down ctrl(pc) while you click a checkbox in the app list, it selects all the apps... allowing you to do a clean wipe and start from scratch... which is really nice!

[(Unverified) Posted Sep 9th 2009 11:40PM]

Installed iTunes 9 -- way too slow! Spinning beachball all the time -- example: just to go page down or page up. Restored 8.2. Thank God for Time Machine.

[(Unverified) Posted Sep 10th 2009 12:30AM]

iTunes 9 doesnt work with my iPhone 3GS the applications dont sync. I restored my iPhone and now i cant put any applications on it....

[(Unverified) Posted Sep 10th 2009 2:07AM]

I am T-pain is surely the greatest app ever released.

[blackspaces Posted Sep 10th 2009 4:02AM]

finally.

[(Unverified) Posted Sep 10th 2009 8:07AM]

What it *doesn't* do is proper centralised library management. You can't have a master iTunes library and connect multiple machines to it and have iPods attached to those machines sync to the central one. It gives you the option of making local copies of another library's contents and that's about it...

[(Unverified) Posted Sep 10th 2009 1:04PM]

Finally, App management in iTunes. Taking this a small step further would be nice though. Give us the ability to put an app ANYWHERE on the screen rather than the next open space. If I have a page with 8 apps, I should be able to put 4 apps across the very top of the page, and 4 apps across the very bottom of the page thus leaving the middle 2 rows empty (much like Android)

[(Unverified) Posted Sep 24th 2009 11:42PM]

does copying files from one computer to another require download of data?

[(Unverified) Posted Oct 3rd 2009 7:20AM]

Has anyone sync iTune with both my PC's "My Music" folder and my home network drive's "My Music" share folder?

How does iTune recognize network drives?

Does Network drive considered another authorized machine? But, I'm accessing it from my computer 1 (desktop) . Of course, the same home (networked: connected to the router) file server can be accessed from my computer 2 (laptop).