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New iTunes 7

Posted by: Harry McCracken

Tuesday, September 12, 2006 10:36 AM PT

New iTunes 7

iTunes update: 1.5 billion songs sold, number five music store of any kind, digital or virtual.

iTunes 7 premieres today-biggest update since original.

Music and movies now sorted in library, new album view, automatically downloads album art for you.

New cover flow view for music and movies, with 3D view of all your cover art flipping by.

TV update: 45 millions shows downloaded, 200 shows available, NFL content available. Resolution for everything now 4x the old size--640 by 480.

New screen in iTunes for managing and updating your iPod. New very granular features for specifying what gets synched to the iPod.

New feature let's you use iPod to synch purchased music between authorized PCs.

Jobs sits down to demo iTunes 7. Here's album view-"it's really pretty wonderful.." Cover flow view is, too, really pretty wonderful.

Gapless playback--no audible seam between tracks. Jobs points out it's for all music that needs it, not just stuff you buy.

He shows the new sync tools. "Pretty cool." Here are games. Better video playback experience. Decent full-screen playback of John Mayer video and CSI. "Really pretty spectacular."

Available today for free.