The Cheezy Blog

Apple have just released their latest version of iTunes. The update has some nice new features. It seems Apple have recently purchaced the freeware CoverFlow application and integrated it with iTunes, and it’s now available as one of the new views. Tied in with this update is the ability to download album artwork for your songs, although doing so does phone home to Apple, and as opposed to CoverFlows ability to seemingly find album artwork for the most obscure songs, you are now required to have an iTunes music store account and thus can only get artwork for their limited number of mainstream titles.

Another addition is downloadable movies and TV episodes from the iTunes music store. I’m not going to go into any detail other than to say that the movies are a measly 640×480 and DRM packed, you can make of that what you will.

The interface has had an overhaul again, diverting even further from Apples own interface guidelines, admittedly it is very pretty, but it doesn’t look very OSX like, perhaps this is a glimpse of what things will be like in Leopard and beyond.

Last but not least, the logo has been changed again. Going back to the pre iTunes 4.x blue logo instead of the green one we have all come to know.