“A search result on Apple.com has revealed that the company will announce the iPhone 5 and new versions of the iPod touch and iPod nano today, and now we can confirm that a new version of the iTunes software will also be announced. The new version of iTunes is expected to be number 11,” Dan Seifert reports for The Verge.
Brief article here.
Seth Weintraub reports for 9to5Mac, “From high-level AppleCare employees, currently training for iTunes 11, we’ve heard the new digital player has been re-designed from the ground up and is much sleeker and faster.”
Brief article here.
Excellent!!!!
That would definitely be an interesting and unexpected announcement. Hopefully it won’t be too buggy. Building something from the ground up isn’t easy.
Mountain Lion only, no doubt.
It had better not be — my mom’s wanting a new iPhone 5 but her Mac won’t run ML, so she’s screwed if iPhone 5 requires the latest iTunes version. Apple’s done that in the past — I remember at least one iPhone I bought requiring me to upgrade my OS before I could upgrade iTunes which was required by the new phone. Annoying but okay if the OS supports the hardware, but not okay if she has to buy a whole new computer just to sync her phone!
From what cavern are you comin’ from?
There is no more a need for a computer!
Ever heard of iCloud?
iCloud, I have heard of it, just not from it for more than 24hrs – Apple needs to fix iCloud mail. Doubt this would have been allowed to go on this long under Steve’s watch. 🙁
What needs fixing? Mine works great.
iCloud mail has been down today for “some users,” which unfortunately includes me and apparently peterblood71. Current iCloud status page says, “Mail may be slow or unavailable. When Mail is available, users may experience delays with incoming messages. Normal service will be restored ASAP.” This has been the status all morning today.
Oops. Meant “stew,” not “peterblood71.”
I travel a lot internationally and cannot rely on iCloud. I will always need local storage
You ever heard of Match on an iOS device????
this only affects 1.1% of the people, according to the apple web site, using an apple account, but i haven’t been able to get mail thru my .mac account or sync some other things for over a day. so much for icloud.
Nah! There may be some features missing but none that non Mountain Lion users would notice all that much.
I hope they will re-imagine the app a bit, as well. It’s had the same basic layout for a decade.
There is a difficult learning curve for iTunes now.
Difficult for some, easy for me…
Hopefully they’ll call it iMedia.
Although it is strange to download movies from something called iTunes, that name is way too valuable to be messed with.
People are used to it. It’s a household name.
iPhone is another example. There’s a hell of a lot more going on than just a phone.
“Tower Records” stopped selling records about a decade before the digital world put them out of business.
+1
Wrong, they are ALL records; doesn’t matter if you’re talking about vinyl LPs, compact discs, cassettes, digital, etc… ALL of them are records. And if it’s a collection of songs, it’s still an album; format doesn’t matter.
the iTunes brand is one of the biggest in the world, it would be a huge marketing blunder to ever change the “iTunes” part of the name. Perhaps iTunes “media” store, but iTunes will and should remain.
Yeah, iTunes media store sounds ok… But still, even the word “media” could still be confused with “news”.
Don’t fix it if it ain’t broke! Seems it’ll be inception style, like it already kind of is.
A store within a store. Just clarified and cleaned up.
iTunes is The Mother Of All Software/ Databases.
I agree. And don’t agree.
It would be a more accurate name. But it would confuse people. I wouldn’t change the name.
If they were changing the name, the link on Apple’s website wouldn’t say, “Apple unveils new iTunes”.
I’m sure the publishers of the software title with that name would love it as well as it would be the quickest seven-figure number (before the decimal point) they would ever earn.
When iTunes would be available for iOS?
To eleven!
By iTunes on iOS I mean Match on iOS of course.
Ours goes to 11!!!
Take that Winblows and Fragmandroid!!!
I hope Apple makes importing and syncing smarter so that I don’t end up with 2, 3, or 4 versions of the same songs. The “Find Duplicates” works fine, but it requires you to look through each duplicate and choose which one to delete. Not having the problem in the first place would be nice.
I hope they fix syncing backup issues which have precious few options and inconvenience more customers than protect against the bad guys often erasing everything (like recently when my granddaughter forgot her Pass Code and then you have to Restore and take a lot of time rebuild an entire iPod Touch that wasn’t backed up – not everything works the way Apple would like in how people actually use their Macs). How many of you are afraid of losing stuff in iTunes and distrust it or have multiple Macs and suddenly you have iPod devices that are Mac specific and you forget which device goes to what Mac. Utter nonsense!
Please let it be available for those of us who have Snow Leopard… Unless they make a mess of it like they did with Safari 6.. then they can keep it…
I heard it will be iTunes 10s
They released 10.7 of itunes today
From the ReadMe:
What’s new in iTunes 10.7
iTunes 10.7 adds support for iOS 6 running on compatible iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch models. This update also adds support for the latest iPod nano and iPod shuffle models.
iTunes 10.7 for Windows also included an updated version of Webkit that is compatible with Window XP SP2+, Windows Vista and Window 7ista. It repairs ~168 memory corruption vulnerabilities. Details are at:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5485
For Snow Leopard users: Yes, iTunes 10.7 is compatible with 10.6.8. Here is the full requirements list:
Hardware:
• Mac computer with an Intel Core processor and 512MB of RAM
• To play 720p HD video, an iTunes LP, or iTunes Extras, a 2.0GHz Intel Core 2 Duo or faster processor and 1GB of RAM is required.
• To play 1080p HD video, a 2.4GHz Intel Core 2 Duo or faster processor and 2GB of RAM is required.
• Screen resolution of 1024×768 or greater; 1280×800 or greater is required to play an iTunes LP or iTunes Extras
• Broadband Internet connection to use the iTunes Store
• Apple combo drive or SuperDrive to create audio, MP3, or back-up CDs; some non-Apple CD-RW recorders may also work
• Apple SuperDrive to back up your library to DVDs; some non-Apple DVD-RW drives may also work
Software:
• Mac OS X version 10.6.8 or later
• Safari 4.0.3 or later
• 350MB of available disk space
• iTunes in the Cloud and iTunes Match availability may vary by country.
Meanwhile: iTunes 11 will be released in October. I don’t believe a specific date has been reported yet. Here is Apple’s details page:
http://www.apple.com/itunes/new-itunes/
So what happened to iTunes 11, it never happened, that’s what it is.
Now at work I have a Windows 64bit and I updated no problem, and in the past I could click a link on the iTunes d/l page to get the Mac iTunes d/l (faster at work than home) but it wouldn’t let me. So I get home and its a f-in 127MB d/l that is some bloated app it just keeps growing with no real useful features.
Time for something lighter, faster and better Apple.