On Tuesday, Apple updated iTunes to version 9.1 with the chief purpose to bring iPad compatibility to Apple’s jukebox along with more media application. No doubt, this update is for the new tablet, iPad scheduled to be released on Saturday. The update adds support for iPad syncing. One would now be able to sync music, movies, TV shows, books and more directly to your Mac. The update also adds organization and sync for iBooks, allow you to rename, rearrange, and remove your Genius Mixes.
The 93-Mbyte download for Windows is compatible in both 32-bit and 64-bit versions, while there’s just one 103-MB Mac OS X edition. Both platforms will support 18 languages. The new version offers a setting that enables automatic conversion to 128-Kbit/s AAC as songs are transferred to iPhones and iPods. This is a useful for those who like to keep high bit rate, lossless, or uncompressed audio files in their iTunes libraries, but are conscious of the amount of space such files can consume on an iPod, iPhone, or iPad. Previously this option was only available for the iPod Shuffle. Other features including security policies include protection against maliciously crafted images, MP4 files, and installation hacks.
Previous to this, the last update for iTunes, version 9.0.3 came around in early February. Before that was iTunes 9.0.2 , which came around in last October. On Tuesday, another launch was QuickTime 7.6.6 for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard and Windows 7, Vista, and XP. It features a number of security-related fixes and can be downloaded direct from Apple.
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