If you click on the small frame where the album art shows and where the video is now playing it opens a player window which will scale to the screen size. This frame includes controls in a small bar. Probably not quite what you had in mind but still useful.
I don't know if I'm able to upload images (someone let me know how please) but when I plugged in my iPod after adding a few videos to my iTunes library I got this message:
"This" iPod? Is a video clip (at least) playing iPod on the cards?
BTW, I know the message says "songs" but the "song" was a video file.
Old error message. You used to be able to add music as .mp4 and it'd give you the same message if you tried to copy it to an iPod. Also streamed songs get the same thing.
DMB also has something called "digital booklet" - not quite sure what that is, and im not interested enough in the album to spend $12 to find out. Sounds cool though. Probably an album artwork-booklet replacement...
i did buy the shins video single. its about 45 MB for the video file, downloads in about 2-3 minutes, and is quite good quality. interestingly though, the video file is unprotected - i deauthorized my itunes, and it still played.
while at it, i created a smart playlist for videos: Where "Kind" Contains "Quicktime" works superbly.
I'm the developer of iFlicks (http://www.helixent.com/iflicks/), an application designed to organize and playback movie files. Obviously, this new, undocumented feature of iTunes is intriguing to me.
I've taken this time to set up an iFlicks blog (http://www.helixent.com/iflicks/weblog/), where I will attempt to keep people informed of the latest iFlicks related news and information.
well, considering that you can now buy videos in the itunes music store its no longer really undocumented... after all, they did mention "new music store features"...and i guess this is what they where referring to - Video Singles and Digital Booklets...
well, considering that you can now buy videos in the itunes music store its no longer really undocumented... after all, they did mention "new music store features"...and i guess this is what they where referring to - Video Singles and Digital Booklets...
They have done digital booklets before, the U2 album had one. Although I buy CDs so don't know what it was like.
On a Mac, why would you want the setting in iTunes when iSync can deal with it automatically in the background? Everything related to syncing should be in the logical place - iSync - and that's it, IMO.
On Windows it's totally understandable the setting is in iTunes so they don't have to put in a separate program just to get Outlook entries onto iPod.
But it doesn't auto-sync when I plug my iPod in does it? Or am I missing something? EDIT - Sorry, released my error.
It seems very clear to me why they are adding video support. The greenback! I am sure in their negotiations with the record labels, Apple said "what if we could show video teasers in our music store?"
Come on everybody! Marketing! We all know from the invention of MTV (at least those of us born before 1970) that a video can make even the worst band seem good. N'Sync anyone. Do you think a band like that is as popular on musical ability alone? Nope.
i'll just kick in my two cents here: what does this new "feature" mean? not much for the present day. i mean, heck, the cnbc video is labeled as "play song," so you know they've got some kinks to work out.
but itunes IS apple's trojan horse. NOT the iPod. it is now on a LOT of PC's out there, and being free and getting lots of buzz, it's getting more and more market penetration each day. so they are laying groundwork for whatever they can to entice people to come back and buy the hardware, where the money is. whether that's just an ipod, or a full-fledged mac system. is there a video ipod around the corner? i'm thinking no. not unless someone has a miracle for extending ipod battery life for video playback longer than a few minutes. BUT i do think the mac mini can be one heck of an on-demand video/audio living-room computer. and THAT'S what they are laying the groundwork for.
i mean, heck, you know itunes 5.0, whenever it happens, will be huge.
i'll just kick in my two cents here: what does this new "feature" mean? not much for the present day. i mean, heck, the cnbc video is labeled as "play song," so you know they've got some kinks to work out.
but itunes IS apple's trojan horse. NOT the iPod. it is now on a LOT of PC's out there, and being free and getting lots of buzz, it's getting more and more market penetration each day. so they are laying groundwork for whatever they can to entice people to come back and buy the hardware, where the money is. whether that's just an ipod, or a full-fledged mac system. is there a video ipod around the corner? i'm thinking no. not unless someone has a miracle for extending ipod battery life for video playback longer than a few minutes. BUT i do think the mac mini can be one heck of an on-demand video/audio living-room computer. and THAT'S what they are laying the groundwork for.
i mean, heck, you know itunes 5.0, whenever it happens, will be huge.
it doesn't have anything new - it's just quicktime functionality (well it does catalogue it).
im excited about the video support, but if apple is thinking ipod video only for music videos, then they might as well wait. im personally not gonna spend $2 on a music video/song bundle and spend $500 on a video ipod.
ideal situation: $500 80GB ipod video in october, iFlicks movie store selling full length high quality movies for $5-$10
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Originally posted by Rojo
Software Update is not working right in Tiger, it doesn't show a new iTunes update...
Sometimes a new update doesn't show up in Software Update right away. Try again tomorrow.
Originally posted by david_oc
Hi,
I don't know if I'm able to upload images (someone let me know how please) but when I plugged in my iPod after adding a few videos to my iTunes library I got this message:
"This" iPod? Is a video clip (at least) playing iPod on the cards?
BTW, I know the message says "songs" but the "song" was a video file.
Old error message. You used to be able to add music as .mp4 and it'd give you the same message if you tried to copy it to an iPod. Also streamed songs get the same thing.
The Shins:
http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/M...istId=62427539
Dave Matthews Band:
http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/M...istId=61877320
DMB also has something called "digital booklet" - not quite sure what that is, and im not interested enough in the album to spend $12 to find out. Sounds cool though. Probably an album artwork-booklet replacement...
while at it, i created a smart playlist for videos: Where "Kind" Contains "Quicktime" works superbly.
Originally posted by Rojo
Software Update is not working right in Tiger, it doesn't show a new iTunes update...
When last at the office today, my Panther machine didn't see it either.
I've taken this time to set up an iFlicks blog (http://www.helixent.com/iflicks/weblog/), where I will attempt to keep people informed of the latest iFlicks related news and information.
Originally posted by budhusa
well, considering that you can now buy videos in the itunes music store its no longer really undocumented... after all, they did mention "new music store features"...and i guess this is what they where referring to - Video Singles and Digital Booklets...
They have done digital booklets before, the U2 album had one. Although I buy CDs so don't know what it was like.
Originally posted by Gon
On a Mac, why would you want the setting in iTunes when iSync can deal with it automatically in the background? Everything related to syncing should be in the logical place - iSync - and that's it, IMO.
On Windows it's totally understandable the setting is in iTunes so they don't have to put in a separate program just to get Outlook entries onto iPod.
But it doesn't auto-sync when I plug my iPod in does it? Or am I missing something? EDIT - Sorry, released my error.
Originally posted by MacCrazy
Well I can't even get movies to play in iTunes!
Edit: some videos work but no full-screen controls. Also you can't buy any videos on the iTMS so what's the point.
forshadowing
edit: additional bummer. Have to buy albums to get the video and no video previews are available. Maybe in subsequent revisions?
edit II: third bummer. Soundoutput from videos does not get ported through airtunes. Only hear it through my laptop's lousy speakers.
Come on everybody! Marketing! We all know from the invention of MTV (at least those of us born before 1970) that a video can make even the worst band seem good. N'Sync anyone. Do you think a band like that is as popular on musical ability alone? Nope.
They need video support to sell mediocrity.
but itunes IS apple's trojan horse. NOT the iPod. it is now on a LOT of PC's out there, and being free and getting lots of buzz, it's getting more and more market penetration each day. so they are laying groundwork for whatever they can to entice people to come back and buy the hardware, where the money is. whether that's just an ipod, or a full-fledged mac system. is there a video ipod around the corner? i'm thinking no. not unless someone has a miracle for extending ipod battery life for video playback longer than a few minutes. BUT i do think the mac mini can be one heck of an on-demand video/audio living-room computer. and THAT'S what they are laying the groundwork for.
i mean, heck, you know itunes 5.0, whenever it happens, will be huge.
Originally posted by rok
i'll just kick in my two cents here: what does this new "feature" mean? not much for the present day. i mean, heck, the cnbc video is labeled as "play song," so you know they've got some kinks to work out.
but itunes IS apple's trojan horse. NOT the iPod. it is now on a LOT of PC's out there, and being free and getting lots of buzz, it's getting more and more market penetration each day. so they are laying groundwork for whatever they can to entice people to come back and buy the hardware, where the money is. whether that's just an ipod, or a full-fledged mac system. is there a video ipod around the corner? i'm thinking no. not unless someone has a miracle for extending ipod battery life for video playback longer than a few minutes. BUT i do think the mac mini can be one heck of an on-demand video/audio living-room computer. and THAT'S what they are laying the groundwork for.
i mean, heck, you know itunes 5.0, whenever it happens, will be huge.
it doesn't have anything new - it's just quicktime functionality (well it does catalogue it).
Anyone else been following As Seen On TV's posts?
im excited about the video support, but if apple is thinking ipod video only for music videos, then they might as well wait. im personally not gonna spend $2 on a music video/song bundle and spend $500 on a video ipod.
ideal situation: $500 80GB ipod video in october, iFlicks movie store selling full length high quality movies for $5-$10