iTunes 9: Two Great Features
Today I had my first chance to look a little further into iTunes 9. There were two new features that seemed to draw my attention and so far have been a great addition to itunes.
First, the Home Space addition. Since my wife and I both have separate iTunes accounts and separate laptops, the Home Space feature has been a welcomed addition. To use this feature, just choose one of your itunes accounts and use it to create the home share on your computers. It is important to note that each computer you put on the home share, will use the same itunes account no matter which computer you are adding it on. So once you choose one, you will use it for all.
Second, the “fill free space with songs” on your ipod. This new option is found when you connect your ipod on the music page and will do as it says and fill up any remaining space on your ipod with additional songs from your library. This is very helpful in my case where I have over 30GB of music and only a 16GB iPod Touch. It is hard to create just enough playlists to fill up the space.
There are still other options that I am looking at, such as the genius for the app store but so far I have not had a chance to use it. Overall iTunes 9 is a welcomed update. It is taking a step that I hope all programs will start to make, which is bringing better sync between multiple machines.
