iTunes 9.2 is out, ready to hook up with your iPhone 4

It looks like iTunes 9.2 has just hit the Software Update screens of computers across the land, and if you've got an iPhone 4 on order, this is one you'll want to get around to installing in the next few days -- it's the only way you'll be able to sync (actually, you'll want it if you're using iOS 4 on any manner of iPhone). Major features include iBooks support on the iPhone and iPod touch, PDF syncing through iBooks, home screen folder organization, and "faster backups" with iOS 4-equipped devices -- a promising sign for anyone troubled by long sync times. Follow the break for Apple's full rundown.

iTunes 9.2 comes with several new features and improvements, including:

• Sync with iPhone 4 to enjoy your favorite music, movies, TV shows, books and more on-the-go

• Sync and read books with iPhone or iPod touch with iOS 4 and iBooks 1.1

• Organize and sync PDF documents as books. Read PDFs with iBooks 1.1 on iPad and any iPhone or iPod touch with iOS 4

• Organize your apps on your iOS 4 home screens into folders using iTunes

• Faster back-ups while syncing an iPhone or iPod touch with iOS 4

• Album artwork improvements make artwork appear more quickly when exploring your library

For information on the security content of this update, please visit: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1222

[aardWolf Posted Jun 16th 2010 5:14PM]

Note: They didn't release iOS 4 early... just put out iTunes in advance.

[MoonWalkerCTE Posted Jun 16th 2010 5:15PM]

@aardWolf No shit sherlock

[iGo Posted Jun 16th 2010 5:18PM]

It definitely fixes the Album Artwork loading issue.

The artwork now loads almost instantly in Album View....and scrolls super smooth

[gatorduck Posted Jun 16th 2010 5:19PM]

@MoonWalkerCTE

you mess with my jackal buddy here, and you will see a flying gatorduck coming at you, and you cant use your hand to block it, because it will just eatz it

[AppleDragon Posted Jun 16th 2010 5:21PM]

@aardWolf THEY didn't. Someone sure did though. =P

[fowenati Posted Jun 16th 2010 5:23PM]

@MoonWalkerCTE Don't mess wiz da Jackal of death, hez got conexions

[pitnefor Posted Jun 16th 2010 5:38PM]

YEEEHAAAA!!!!

[credo Posted Jun 16th 2010 6:30PM]

@engadget

You know engadget, you told us yesterday you were going to upgrade OSX, yet it still isn't done. GET ON IT. What are we paying you for?

[ddicted Posted Jun 16th 2010 7:16PM]

121.9MB?

[phinn Posted Jun 17th 2010 1:22AM]

@aardWolf Actually I just upgraded my iPhone 3GS to iOS 4.0! It worked no problem, I just manually downloaded the iOS 4.0 GM (available all over the place just google it). Then popped open iTunes 9.2, shift+clicked Restore, clicked the OS, and in about 10 minutes I was running 4.0! It worked perfect, very nice OS.

[cjschrissouth Posted Jun 17th 2010 3:01AM]

@credo
what?

[AmnesiaHaze Posted Jun 17th 2010 4:46AM]

@iGo
indeed, i find that a big improvement. first thing that came up to me.

[angermeans Posted Jun 17th 2010 9:33AM]

@iGo that's good cause I hated loading the artwork for fifty gigs of music it would take forever on my macbook pro

[khalcyon Posted Jun 16th 2010 5:14PM]

about time - hope sync times improve

[MoonWalkerCTE Posted Jun 16th 2010 5:15PM]

Awesomeness I can't wait

[bmthj Posted Jun 16th 2010 5:15PM]

Nice! If only I had an iPhone 4 on order! Although the functionality with iOS4 will be useful!

[rmbrown09 Posted Jun 16th 2010 5:18PM]

I figure I can cancel My Bberry Tour on Verizon in the next couple weeks, sell the Tour to make it up, and then flip to ATT (again) and iPhone 4.

I had the first iPhone when it came out, paid $600 for it. Now that I have skipped the last 2 versions, think I will go back.

[Christopher02 Posted Jun 16th 2010 6:15PM]

@rmbrown09
Good luck getting one before Christmas. There are going to be some severe shortages.

[gcelan01 Posted Jun 16th 2010 5:18PM]

Finally! I can get the GM seed put on my 3GS now. I was waiting so long.

[FWIW Posted Jun 16th 2010 5:30PM]

@gcelan01 I've been enjoying iOS 4 for the last week. :P

[Khris Posted Jun 16th 2010 5:55PM]

@FWIW I have too! :)

[Olwood Posted Jun 16th 2010 6:27PM]

@FWIW
Enjoying being the key word. Everything seems much more streamlined

[ebon Posted Jun 16th 2010 5:19PM]

The tab organization is a nice addition.

[asharillc Posted Jun 16th 2010 5:19PM]

Sync times shorter? Gosh let's hope so! Takes 2 hrs to sync my 3GS currently

[jolejniczak Posted Jun 16th 2010 7:22PM]

@asharillc If you're using a PC, try disabling your antivirus while syncing. Used to be a big issue for me until I found that little nugget.

[gatorduck Posted Jun 16th 2010 5:20PM]

how about we make itunes fast :)

[Jordan Posted Jun 16th 2010 5:21PM]

@gatorduck:

Are you kidding? iTunes doesn't even support Aero yet..

[fowenati Posted Jun 16th 2010 5:25PM]

iTunes is fast, I use it on mac and pc and i achieve equal speeds for both. 13" MBP and HP Dv6775 (laptop)

[gatorduck Posted Jun 16th 2010 5:26PM]

@fowenati
yeah, i have a kick ass desktop, and its slowwwwwww, no i dont need witty remarks, needs more ramz, or shit computer, i know what im doing, lol

[Cash9007 Posted Jun 16th 2010 5:30PM]

@fowenati

I've got an i7 and an SSD raid array in this thing, and iTunes is slow as cold paste. On my 13" MBP, however, it runs like a raped ape. Explain that s*** to me, please.

[fowenati Posted Jun 16th 2010 5:36PM]

@gatorduck Then i dont know what the hell is wrong with your computer, it runs fine on my old ass 1.6ghz dual care with 3GB ram and 256MB Nvidia gfx. and by fine i mean no lag whatsoever. It runs the same on my friends Quad core at 3ghz and he has 4GB ram, and he runs tons of things in the background (like 32 tabs of chrome, at the same time with photoshop and a 3D imaging software, no joke) So your comp is fucked up.

[fowenati Posted Jun 16th 2010 5:38PM]

@Cash9007 I gues you're comps are both FUCKED up. Try removing a bunch of shit (adware, viruses, extraprograms) then defrag ur drive, then just orgainize your itunes folder. If not then, then idk wtf is wrong with your comp.

[gatorduck Posted Jun 16th 2010 5:38PM]

@Cash9007

thank you sir, see i knew it wasnt me

[Jordan Posted Jun 16th 2010 5:40PM]

@fowenati:

Tell me, how long from the time you click the icon does it take for itunes to actually open?

When you minimize and maximize it, does it get all fucked up cuz of no aero support?

I'm running an 8-core MacPro (newest model) with 16GB of RAM. iTunes is fucked.

[fowenati Posted Jun 16th 2010 5:41PM]

@gatorduck It's both of you. Every thing I've ever ran iTunes on (except my grandpa's 1995 desktop) ran extremely fast.

[Jordan Posted Jun 16th 2010 5:42PM]

@fowenati:

Then you obviously think slow is fast. The general consensus worldwide is iTunes sucks. I'm not making that up.

[Jack Posted Jun 16th 2010 5:46PM]

@Jordan

Of course you're making it up. If you weren't, you'd have a link to that study. iTunes runs fine for me too.

[gatorduck Posted Jun 16th 2010 5:47PM]

@Jordan

yeah im not bashing apple, just from experience, every desktop or laptop i had installed itunes, they all were sloww......had to think twice before uploading new stuff to iphone, lol

[fowenati Posted Jun 16th 2010 5:47PM]

@Jordan It takes less than a second to open, It never gets effed up cause of aero. And srsly its fucked up on ur OCTO CORE MAC? wtf are you doing?! Really?! Never in my life have i ever seen itunes fail on a mac. I have a 50GB library on itunes and it is instantaneous from start to quit on my mbp, and i run photoshop and have 10-15 tabs open in the background.

[Jordan Posted Jun 16th 2010 5:48PM]

@Jack:

Ok fine, the general commenter consensus around the internet is iTunes sucks. Look around, you know it's true.

How can you honestly tell me that after 3+ years of Aero being released, and iTunes not supporting it, that it doesn't suck? Pure. Apple. Bullshit.

[fowenati Posted Jun 16th 2010 5:49PM]

@gatorduck Itunes IS just minamally slower on windows than mac, i will give it that, but honestly nothing noticable. It DOES run extremely slow ona brand new PCs becuase they have tons of bloatware.

[Jordan Posted Jun 16th 2010 5:50PM]

@fowenati:

I dunno, you tell me. On Windows I have one of the smallest, lightweight AV software apps, security essentials. That's it. Nothing of the kind on Mac. Under both operating systems everything runs perfectly fine, fast, instant...except for that piece of crap known as iTunes. There is absolutely no way I belive that it starts in less than a second for you. Absolutely none.

I haven't only seen this on my computer, but every computer.

[gatorduck Posted Jun 16th 2010 5:51PM]

@fowenati

glad you can see things my way hehehe

[fowenati Posted Jun 16th 2010 5:54PM]

@gatorduck your way? I said only a LITTLE (less than a second) slower on PC's and its slow on Comps with alot of bloat ware.

[fowenati Posted Jun 16th 2010 5:55PM]

@Jordan I don't believe you. I have never EVER seen a mac not load iTunes in a split second. As i said, my mac (with a 50gb) library loads in a flash. Something is wrong with your computer and you need to fix it. I am using my mac right now, i will quit (CMD+Q) iTunes....now i will open...1. Done.

[Apple Google Microsoft Posted Jun 16th 2010 6:02PM]

@Cash9007

This is apple telling you:

'If you bought a mac this would be fast!'

It's slow on windows for no reason. Wankers. I installed it once, and promptly uninstalled it.

[Jordan Posted Jun 16th 2010 6:06PM]

@fowenati:

Right, iTunes is faster on a Mac than on Windows (gee I wonder why), but it's not split second fast. I have used numerous Macs...it's just not.

[Seb6554 Posted Jun 16th 2010 6:11PM]

@Cash9007 notice how the apple website is slower on browsers other than Safari?

another example of Apple bs...

[Black Vista Posted Jun 16th 2010 6:18PM]

@Jordan Itunes takes about 30 seconds to a minute to open compared to Zune's about 2 second start time.

--Roughly 2000 songs, 100 videos

3 GHz AMD 6000+
4 GBs RAM
9500 GT

[infamous1 Posted Jun 16th 2010 6:43PM]

@Jordan

16GB of RAM XD *dead*

u Fail