Trotz der langen Spieldauer von neun Minuten wird das Musikstück nicht langweilig. Häufig wechselnde Instrumente und ein spannender Aufbau zwingen einen fast dazu das Lied gleich nochmal hören zu wollen.

I love house music!

YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sNsbJE0OYkE
Podcast: http://www.itunes.com/podcast?id=323879840

Von Anfang an war ich begeistert und mit jedem weiteren Beta-Release wurde alles noch runder, besser und schöner. Ich bin so begeistert, dass ich nicht einmal auch nur einen Gedanken oder Wunsch hatte auf das “alte” Vierer zurückzugehen. Auch selbst programmierte Apps liefen sofort ohne Anpassungen weiter.

Apple hat scheinbar den Termin zur Veröffentlichung schon wesentlich länger gekannt, denn das sollte mein Screenshot zur letzten iTunes 10.5 beta zeigen:

Von daher wünsche ich allen, die iOS5 noch nicht selbst auf ihrem eigenen Gerät haben, viel Spass damit! Es lohnt sich.

Previously, when a user clicked a link leading to a podcast, it brought you to an empty white web page. Then, iTunes was opened – and if not installed you got a offer to download the free ware. The user did not know what is to be expected.

The new change is, that you will now see a tiny preview with the same information that is presented only in iTunes, before. The behavior of starting iTunes or the download offer is still there. Click the picture on the right to see an example with my podcast.

You also can view video and pre-listen audio!

Sometimes my fingers are too fast and something is trashed, especially podcast episodes. If you are wacking the same as me, then I am sure this or the other time you want it being undone.

Of course there is a simple and quick way:

Just select any episode or the podcast itself, then hit on the bottom left the unsubscribe button. Then it turns to subscribe, and press it again. Then iTunes will reload the feed and you can download the lost childen, again.

How much time is remaining when the tiny battery icon has about 35% battery left?

The free application iBattery is the perfect solution for that by displaying the time is left for usage in hours and minutes.

You will stay tuned on how long your standby will be, how long you can talk, listen to audio or even watch video.

Delete Podcast Episode

When I am on the way I mostly consume my favourite podcasts instead of listening to music. When beeing back on my Mac I see which episodes are played in iTunes and then I do mark and delete them. But when I have listened to different podcasts I really hate it to search through my quite long directory and delete them manually one by one.

Today I have detected, that I can delete episodes directly on the iPhone which saves me some time and unconvinient title seeking.

When beeing in the episode list, slide the “unwanted” episode from left to right. The red delete button known from other built in applications will fade in. You can either click it to delete or slide again this entry to remove the button.

Super Remove Dead Tracks

On a Mac almost everything is scriptable, and so is iTunes. One of those free cleaners is Super Remove Dead Tracks. Install it as described, then restart iTunes. From the scripts menu bar select the Super Remove Dead Tracks and just wait for completion. At the end, a logfile is placed on the desktop, so that you can see what was removed. If something went wrong, you can restore the files from the trashcan.

iPhone SDK 2.2.1

Yesterday, I was very suprised to see the iPhone 2.2.1 update in my iTunes and I am very proud to have discovered that before the invincible iphoneblog.de did.

Until now, I did not find anything what has really changed.

The readme told, that some bugfixes are done affecting the picture library and the mail account synchronization. The SMS texting should have changed, but I did not notice anything there. The Mail should receive some new features like deleting all mails, but I have not tested it, yet.

Apple keeps going fast in the moment. They released iWork 09 and iLife 09, continued bugfixes in Quicktime, building new hardware, and so on.

Today, I received also a mail, that the new SDK for the iPhone firmware 2.2.1 is available for the developers.

Go on, Apple, that makes me happy!

best of iTunes 2008

Apple has updated its iTunes Store with download charts of 2008. You need to have iTunes installed, because the content is displayed inside it.

Within there you will find the charts nicely sorted. They are viewed by music, series, podcasts, iPhone/iPod apps and any other existing content.

Take a look at that charts and see if you run with the trends or missed something interesting.

Create MP3 with iTunes

For instance the kids do not have an iPod. They own a Creative Muvo V100 who just knows to handle the common MP3 format.

In my humble opinion I do like the AAC much more than MP3 and most of my audio files are compressed with that codec.

To make it available for the portables I need to convert them to MP3. And that it so easy with iTunes itself.

iTunes is really great to use it as an audio converter. It supports different formats like AIFF, WAV, MP3 and AAC.

All formats are using their specified codecs with several advantages (small file size) and some disadvantages (loss of quality).

You can select the different options with the menubar going to “Preferences”, “General”, “Import Settings”. There just choose your favourite output format from the entire dropdown list and set the resulting quality.

Encode with iTunes