[Vincent Ferrari]

http://www.apple.com/itunes/download/

"iTunes 8 includes Genius, which makes playlists from songs in your library that go great together. Genius also includes Genius sidebar, which recommends music from the iTunes Store that you don't already have. With iTunes 8, browse your artists and albums visually with the new Grid view; download your favorite TV shows in HD quality from the iTunes Store; sync your media with iPod nano (4th generation), iPod classic (120GB), and iPod touch (2nd generation); and enjoy a stunning new music visualizer.

iTunes 8 and iTunes U are now accessible with VoiceOver on your Mac. iTunes 8.0.2 improves stability and performance and provides a number of important bug fixes, including: Addresses a quality issue creating MP3s on some computers; Fixes a connectivity issue with the iTunes Store when using some Internet proxies with Mac OS X; Improves accessibility with VoiceOver."

The paragraph above says it all.  Mostly just a maintenance release.  Apple seems to be getting everything all shiny and cleaned up for the holidays, huh? :-)  iTunes 8.0.2 is available in Software Update and doesn't even require a restart after installing!

[Vincent Ferrari]

http://www.apple.com/itunes/download/

"iTunes 8 includes Genius, which makes playlists from songs in your library that go great together. Genius also includes Genius sidebar, which recommends music from the iTunes Store that you don't already have. With iTunes 8, browse your artists and albums visually with the new Grid view; download your favorite TV shows in HD quality from the iTunes Store; sync your media with iPod nano (4th generation), iPod classic (120GB), and iPod touch (2nd generation); and enjoy a stunning new music visualizer.

iTunes 8 and iTunes U are now accessible with VoiceOver on your Mac. iTunes 8.0.2 improves stability and performance and provides a number of important bug fixes, including: Addresses a quality issue creating MP3s on some computers; Fixes a connectivity issue with the iTunes Store when using some Internet proxies with Mac OS X; Improves accessibility with VoiceOver."

The paragraph above says it all.  Mostly just a maintenance release.  Apple seems to be getting everything all shiny and cleaned up for the holidays, huh? :-)  iTunes 8.0.2 is available in Software Update and doesn't even require a restart after installing!

[Snowmation]

I wonder if they have improved the Windows version of it. TouchFlo in Vista is so far from the OSX buttery smoothness. This is the one thing that bugs me with Apple and Microsoft. They both do half hearted efforts when it comes to most of their software on the others platform. For example, MSN messenger is so dated next to the Windows version and we all know about the drama that came around with iTunes and Vista when it first came out....even though Vista RC1 had been out for months.

Think I'll only get it for OSX right now....and stay with Winamp for Windows.

[Vincent Ferrari]

Originally Posted by Snowmation

I wonder if they have improved the Windows version of it. TouchFlo in Vista is so far from the OSX buttery smoothness. This is the one thing that bugs me with Apple and Microsoft. They both do half hearted efforts when it comes to most of their software on the others platform. For example, MSN messenger is so dated next to the Windows version and we all know about the drama that came around with iTunes and Vista when it first came out....even though Vista RC1 had been out for months.

Think I'll only get it for OSX right now....and stay with Winamp for Windows.

If you want to see a half-hearted effort of the highest order, check out Pivot tables in Excel for Mac ;-)

Yeah... Truth is, neither is probably very interested in making the opposing platform more attractive.

[Snowmation]

Originally Posted by Vincent Ferrari

If you want to see a half-hearted effort of the highest order, check out Pivot tables in Excel for Mac ;-)

Yeah... Truth is, neither is probably very interested in making the opposing platform more attractive.

Oh trust me I've been there.... *sigh*

[Vincent Ferrari]

Originally Posted by Snowmation

Think I'll only get it for OSX right now....and stay with Winamp for Windows.

Forgot to address this part.

It looks like most of the updates are OSX related anyway, so I doubt it would matter if you skipped it on Windows for the immediate future.

[doogald]

I wonder if this update has more to do with iPhone 2.2 and its ability to download podcasts on the device? In other words, they needed to add support in iTunes for updating podcast content from the device to iTunes, which used to happen only the other way. Maybe.