I was playing around with FLAC this evening, contemplating whether it's time to re-import my whole CD collection once and for all in a lossless format so I don't have to do it again in the future. I ended up clicking over to the iTunes Music Store and what did I see on the front page? A link to "iTunes 4.5 (New features and download)"
Clicking the link takes you to a page with info on the new features of iTunes 4.5 and new stuff in iTMS. Free download singles each week, iMix playlist sharing, Music Videos and Movie Trailers sections of iTMS, Radio Charts with playlists from lots of radio stations, wishlists, WMA imports, and most important Lossless encoding built in to iTunes. Hopefully they mean FLAC, since they talk about 50% size reductions with no quality loss which is about what I've been getting with test tracks using MacFLAC.
If you go into the the Learn More page about iMix, there is a link to "Download the latest version of iTunes" but that just links to http://www.apple.com/itunes/download/ which still has the current version of iTunes available.
There's another link on the main iTMS page that says "iTunes Anniversary Free Download - Foo Fighters" but clicking it just takes you to the page for "The Colour and the Shape" album but no free track or free album info there. I'm guessing this will all change overnight and things will be live tomorrow.
Posted by Kevin Railsback at April 27, 2004 11:48 PM | TrackBack