Oct 03
A couple of hours ago, Apple released the newest version of its iTunes software, named “iTunes 8.0.1″.
For Apple standards, this release came with a quite verbose release not, naming the following changes:
- Seamlessly plays the current song when creating a new Genius playlist.
- Improves syncing spoken menus to iPod nano.
- Addresses an issue of deleting HD TV episodes when downloading.
- Improves checking for updates from the App Store
- Improves accessibility with VoiceOver.
- Addresses problems syncing Genius results to iPod.
The update is 58MB big and can be downloaded either directly from the website, or using your Mac’s built-in “Software Update”.
For those of you with jailbroken devices: there are reports that jailbroken iPhones won’t sync with this new version of iTunes. A complete restart of iTunes should, however, fix this problem.
Podcaster the application that got rejected from the App Store by Apple finally made it’s way on to Cydia. Podcaster is a application that allows you to subscribe, manage, stream and download podcasts directly to your iPhone and iPod Touch. According to many of you this application was high on your wanted list and today you have the chance to get it in Cydia.
CNN is reporting that Apple may close it’s very successful iTunes music store soon. The reason for this is a new dispute by the Copyright Royalty Board in Washington. The Copyright Royalty Board is planning to raise the royalty’s that online music stores should pay them. This raise will off course be payed by us the users and not the distributors (Apple, Amazon, etc). Apple doesn’t like this change and therefore they are threatening to close down the iTunes store.
Normally, when my iPhone is syncing, it displays the Sync in Progress screen with the Slide to Cancel slider. Well, sometimes, my iPhone remains totally normal while it’s syncing. Just now, I was syncing Crash Bandicoot onto it, and the display remained normal, and my iPhone retained all functionality. The icon just appeared on the screen when it was finished syncing it. 
Recently, we did a post over the issues concerning the Blue Screen of Death when using iTunes 8 on a Vista machine. Well, a workaround has been discovered by someone on the Apple Discussions Forum over on Apple’s website. This process may or may not work for you, but there’s another method inside you can try if it fails. 
Several users have been reporting that iTunes 8.0 and Windows Vista (32 + 64 bit) is not working very well. The users are reporting several issues of BSOD (Blue screens of death). The issue happens when you connect your iPhone or iPod Touch to any Windows Vista based computer. Apple has aknowledged the issue and is currently working on a fix.
dTunes is a new application from the ModMyiFone source that is sort of like an iSlsk replacement for now. It connects to the music streaming site 
