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New Apple iTunes 10 Features

I just wanted to let Apple iTunes users know that I've been testing the new iTunes 10 today and have found some interesting features that will be handy for us music nuts.

1. Apple has changed the name of "AirTunes" to "AirPlay".

2. AirPlay allows the ability to adjust volume control for individual AirPort Express and Apple TV units.

3. AirPlay will allow (with the introduction of iOS 4.2 coming in November) the ability to stream content from iOS devices. This means that music and movies can be sent directly from an iPod Touch, iPhone and iPad to an Apple TV or AirPort Express.

4. List view has a cleaner look by grouping "album songs" together and not repeating "album name".

I have done some listening to see if there is any quality upgrade (or downgrade), and so far I can not tell any difference. I'm using Snow Leopard. If anyone else has any opinions, please let me know.
ballan
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Ballan - I wonder if Front Row works now with AE. It used to work in Tiger but Apple disabled it in Leopard. Many people complained about it.
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@Kijanki: I can confirm that "Front Row" does NOT stream to the AirPort Express. Maybe in the future?
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Ballan - Thanks. As for the grouping of the albums I found out that setting smart playlists displays all album "tiles" on one screen. I set smart playlists with only genre condition. For instance my playlist "- Jazz" has condition that genre is equal to Jazz. Dash in front is just to list my playlists before others. I have also playlist named "- All" to display all tiles (for finding things).
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