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iTunes 9: the stuff that dreams are made of?

12.09.2009
Last month I put together a I wanted to see in iTunes 9, and this week Apple released iTunes 9, much to the shock and amazement of the Mac press (or, at least, those who were sleeping or unconscious). How many of my wishes came true?

First a quick recap of the four features I longed for:

Which of my wishes did Apple grant? Here's a scorecard:

When you install iTunes 9 a new folder appears in your iTunes Music (or iTunes Media) folder: Automatically Add to iTunes, which . As you might guess, when you place an iTunes-compatible media into this folder, that media is automatically added to your iTunes Library and deleted from the folder (if you put something that iTunes can't play into that folder it isn't deleted, rather it is moved to a folder called "Not Added"). While I was hoping for the ability to decide which folder would be the watch folder I think this is a pretty good solution.

Sadly, iTunes still foists SD downloads on me. I'm all HD, baby, and I don't want to look back!

Okay, iTunes 9 doesn't make hosting your iTunes library on a network share any easier, but Home Sharing (which Peter Cohen ) addresses the same problem in a different way. Instead of connecting all your Macs running iTunes to a central iTunes Library, it helps to make sure that all the local copies of your iTunes libraries across Macs stay in sync (it's not without limitations, however). Not what I was thinking, but it accomplishes the same goal.