Apple iTunes 9

We have mixed feelings on iTunes: it may take longer - especially if you are external drives that too often forget to our taste - and it urgently through a redesign.

Hooray then for iTunes 9: she has a new face, he has some new features, a scourge in the form of iTunes LP - 21st Century sleeves down - and iTunes Extras - DVD extras without the DVD - it has new things to you. Thus, it is good?

iTunes 9 certainly looks better. The area of the glassy state look glassier, see the shining metal gray and playback buttons ButtonYes Search.

There is also a new browser column that scrolls large libraries much, much faster, and a new feature that tries Genius mix, music mixes, you'll like. It looks good and works well, even if you turn it is not clear: he must go to the Store menu, and then click Update Genius.

iTunes 9 browser Spalte

COLUMN BROWSER: iTunes saving has never been high on navigation in large libraries, so that the column is a new browser when very welcome

It also has a strange interface if you create a playlist on the sharing of certain types of music and the basis, for example, it will clump Elbow, Doves and Supergrass in a mix-and-stick Lady Gaga Pet Shop Boys, Girls Aloud Robyn and in others it is you can not see what's in the playlist.

If you are the playlists on your iPod or iPhone, you must switch on, too: They're in the Music tab, see playlists.

There has not really announced another new feature: it encoding. If you go iTunes> Preferences> Import Settings, and select AAC as an import format of choice, you will receive a check box under "use encoding high efficiency (HE). HE-AAC for audio very low speed, which means it will not be useful to the user of iTunes to the average.

The Windows version has a few have Polish-interface, but we think it is a bit strange. For Windows 7, you can pause and skip tracks from the thumbnail preview taskbar, there is a list of fundamental changes, starting in the iTunes Store or iTunes allows.