On the 1 year anniversary of the iTunes Music Store, Apple has released iTunes 4.5 with new features.
Some of the interesting features are:
- iMix – A feature that lets you share your playlists, or “mixes” with the world. You can see Steve’s Jobs favorites. I wonder if he really did pick them.
- Print CD Covers – Which is a cool feature that lets you print album covers in a collage format for custom CDs.
- Import WMA files – This is Apple’s answer to those that complain that iTunes won’t play Windows Media Audio files. Basicly they won’t let you play WMA files but they will let you convert them to Apple’s format. A good way to lock people into iTunes.
You can also view music videos and movies trailers right from within iTunes. Looks like iTunes is becoming more of a media player then just a MP3 playing application.
If you are using PlayFair, make sure you upgrade all of your AAC files before installing the new iTunes. The program stops working with 4.5
Also, if you share music between home computers, make sure you upgrade all or none…network sharing is not compatible between 4.2 and 4.5.
I suspect FairPlay will adapt to the new version.
What’s really wild is that when I first looked at Steve’s playlist, it had about 5 votes. Now it is over 4000! Crazy!