Review: iTunes 7

The best thing about Apple updating their product line is the fact that they usually update iTunes which is free and makes me feel better at handling the fact that I can’t purchase their new products. 🙁

Anyhow, there are two new features on iTunes that I thought are intriguing.

The first is the Cover Flow option for viewing your songs. As seen in the picture above, it will show you what song is playing along with displaying the album cover. On its sides are the album before and after in your list of songs. When you switch to another song, it flips to the album cover which is a pretty neat effect.

The other feature which has been sought out by many live music afficiandos is the GAPLESS MUSIC PLAYBACK which essentially eliminates the annoying gap between MP3 files. This isn’t inherent in the actual MP3 file itself, so they must have just created a workaround to eliminate the gap it causes.

This is great for the live concerts I listen to as it was always annoying to have a little gap when the track changes. You want the thing to flow!

I noticed that the software was processing all my songs for gapless playback when I installed it so I thought it would be complete, but nothing changed. After reading about the feature more this morning, I found out that you need to select the tracks and click the YES button for Gapless playback.

Kind of silly when you think of it. Wouldn’t you want all your songs to be gapless?

iplaying: Happiness is A Warm Gun – The Beatles (White Album)