Steve Officially Announces iTunes 8.0
by Jody Mitoma on September 9, 2008 at 1:56 pm 
So as most of you know, the Let’s Rock Event went on at 1PM EST this afternoon, and Steve officially announced the 8th version of his ever-so-popular iTunes program for Mac and Windows computers, especially made for iPod and iPhone users around the globe.
Steve went on to say that iTunes is, “the ubiquitous store and music player. It now offers 8.5 million songs. It’s amazing. Over 125,000 podcasts, over 30,000 TV shows, 2600 movies… and we now offer over 3,000 apps for iPhone and touch.” He went on to say, ”So we’re adding new content to iTunes. HD TV shows. You can buy them for $1.99 in SD, HD will be $2.99… and you can watch them on your computer. We’ve got over 65 million customers. It’s enabled us to become the #1 music distributor in any format.” Big applause for that one. NBC is coming back to iTunes.” Big cheers “The Office is coming back, Monk, Battlestar Galactica, 30 Rock… and they’re coming back in HD.” Within iTunes 8, “We’re introing a new featuring called ‘Genius’ — it allows you to make playlists from songs in your library that go together. It helps you rediscover music in your library. And it really works well.” Steve said.
“Let’s say you’re listening to a song, Bob Dylan, and you push the Genius button — 25, 50, 75 or 100 songs. They’re amazingly good. You can bring up the Genius sidebar which makes recommendations from the iTunes store.”
“You’ve got your music library, you turn on Genius — it sends information about your library to iTunes. We can learn about your musical tastes… but completely anonymously… but we’re going to combine your info with other users, and as that happens Genius gets smarter and smarter. The results are tailored to your tastes and library. Automatically make playlists with just one click.”
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