iTunes 4.8 in the wild

By Scott McNulty

Fire up your Software Update, people! Everyone's favorite jukebox software, iTunes has just been updated. to iTunes 4.8 with very little detail coming from Apple. According to Macminute, 'Tunes 4.8 includes new Music Store features and support for transferring contacts and calendars from your computer to your iPod
(requires Mac OS X version 10.4 on your computer).'

Nothing to get too excited about, however, this release does excite me because it gets us tantalizingly close to iTunes 5.0. What wonders await us in the brave new world of iTunes 5.0? I have no idea, but I know what I would like to see:

  • Support for Ogg files (just because it is geekily cool)
  • Support for having lyrics associated with tracks
  • Built in support for making iTunes related RSS feeds (you could roll your own 'Recent Purchases' feed and upload it to a server.  Sweet.)

What would you like to see in iTunes 5.0?

Update: Well, it looks like there is something to get a little excited about. A few people in the comments pointed this out to me, but Brian did it first. He is what he said, 'Scott, you saw that you can also maintain and watch movie files in this new version of iTunes? And you can check in the System Preferences under Advanced to decide how you want them to be watched.'

Who is ready for the iTunes Video Store? Or would it be the iTunes Multimedia Store?

 

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