iTunes 9.0.1 provides a number of important bug fixes, including:

• Resolves issues browsing the iTunes Store.
• Addresses a performance issue where iTunes may become unresponsive.
• Fixes a problem where iTunes may unexpectedly quit.
• Fixes a problem syncing Podcasts in playlists to iPod or iPhone.
• Fixes a problem sorting albums with multiple discs.
• Addresses an issue with the Zoom button not switching to Mini Player.
• Improves application syncing for iPod touch and iPhone.
• Genius is now automatically updated to show Genius Mixes.
iTunes 9 comes with many new features and improvements, including:

• An improved look and feel, including a new Column Browser for easily browsing your artists or albums, movies, TV shows, and more.

• iTunes Store has a brand new look, with improved navigation for quick and easy exploration.

• iTunes LP and iTunes Extras create unique experiences that feature exclusive interviews, videos, photos, and more — available with select album and movie purchases on the iTunes Store.

• Home Sharing helps you manage your family’s iTunes collection between computers in your home. iTunes can automatically transfer new purchases, or you can choose just the items you want.

• Genius Mixes are created for you by iTunes and play songs from your library that go great together.

• iPod and iPhone syncing now allows you to organize your iPhone and iPod touch home screens directly in iTunes. Syncing is now also more flexible, allowing you to sync individual artists, genres, or TV show and Podcast episodes.

• iTunes U items are now organized into their own section in your iTunes library.

• Sync with iPod nano (5th generation), iPod classic (Fall 2009), and iPod touch (Fall 2009).

• iTunes 9 also includes many other improvements, such as HE-AAC encoding and playback, more flexibility with Smart Playlists rules, simpler organization of your media files inside an iTunes Media folder, and more.

What a great day for an iTunes 9 update: 09/09/09!
New interface, new icons, new buttons, iTunes 9 comes with a fresh skin (NB: the missing part of the iTunes window is probably a bug in SL’s screen captures).
The main new features of iTunes 9 are:

1. iTunes LP FINALLY: The visual experience of the record album returns with iTunes LP. Download select albums and experience a beautifully designed, interactive world right in your iTunes library on a Mac or PC — many are created by the artists. While you listen to your favorite songs, you can dive into animated lyrics and liner notes, watch performance videos, view artist and band photos, and enjoy other bonus materials. And become an even bigger fan.
2. Home Sharing FINALLY: Enabling you to share (transfer) music, movies and other iTunes content between your computers at home.
3. iTunes U comes as an independent module just like podcasts, TV shows… and… I have to say FINALLY too for this one!
   
4. Column Browsing: Just like in my favorite OS X’s Finder’s view, Apple FINALLY added a smarter way to browse music through a column browsing
   
5. iTunes Extra: Get an inside look at your favorite movies with new special features.
   
6. Genius Mixes: This new feature searches your iTunes library, finds songs that go great together, and creates multiple mixes you’ll love. These mixes are like channels programmed entirely with your music.

“One of the new additions to iTunes is said to include Blu-ray support which lines up nicely with a recent AppleInsider report about Apple integrating Blu-ray into their new iMac line-up,” the report states.
“Something else that will most likely make a bunch of people happy is that we’ve been told iTunes 9 will finally include the ability to visually organize and arrange your iPhone and iPod touch applications.

Something that wasn’t so clearly described was some kind of Twitter/Facebook/Last.fm integration. Maybe broadcasting what song you’re playing to your friends?”
BGR says the Twitter/Facebook/Last.fm stuff from its tip was more vague, but you can imagine that if such features were integrated it would involve tweeting out or updating your Facebook status with what song you are listening to. It’s possible that for Last.fm, iTunes would build-in support for logging what songs you are playing, something which Last.fm currently does through its own software.
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Apple Scripts are actions (or sets of actions) that can be launched from almost all of your Mac’s (bundled) Apple applications.

These scripts are time saving solutions especially for repetitive actions.
And here’s an example with iTunes and some of the best Apple Scripts (to me).

First thing to do, check if you do have the scripts folders for iTunes, the best way to make sure you do have it is to run iTunes and take a look at the menu bar, it should looks like this:

The Apple Scripts logo is the one you see before “help”.

If you don’t see it, just go to your Home Folder:Library:iTunes and create a folder and name it “Scripts”:

To find my Top 3 iTunes Scripts, please make the jump.
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Sorry for the absence, I was very busy the previous days!

Let’s go back MacAmouring (Loving our Mac) with some rumors first of all.
As I said many times, I’m not pro rumors, but these ones are more likely than unlikely.
iTunes 8.0, iPhone Firmware version 2.1 and maybe a new iPhone Nano.
The September 9th Apple Event: “Let’s Rock” will be more based on the Apple devices (iPod and iPhone as we said) than on the Mac (Computers and OS).
More audience as a result, that’s a sure thing, a Windows user will be interested with the latest iTunes version as well as the latest iPhone firmware’s version.
It’s sad, I wanted to hear about a new iLife’09 and iWork’09, some more on the upcoming version of Leopard (Snow Leopard).

Many pictures of the iPhone Nano 4G are available on the web.
The most “possible” one is the one under (on my opinion):

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When you have 2 or more Macs, it’s easy to see one’s mac iTunes library and listen to it from another Mac.

But you may want to control your main Mac’s iTunes ( the one connected to your speakers for example )  when you’re using another Mac : you’d want to browse your songs, see the cover of the playing song, etc…

TuneConect 2 is a free and very well done app which exactly does what i described above.

 * First step you enable your main Mac as a server : just install the pref.pane provided with TuneConnect.
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Apple has released iTunes 7.7.1, a minor update to the media playback/purchase and iPhone/iPod sync tool, through Software Update. Apple’s release notes state only that the update ” includes fixes to improve stability and performance.”

Typical problems after iTunes updates include:

• iTunes cannot locate music files, fixes When the issue manifests, any attempts to play some songs are met with error messages indicating that iTunes cannot find a specified file.
• Freezes when connecting an iPod/iPhone If this problem manifests, try deleting the following files from ~~/Library/Preferences/ (your user library preferences folder):

com.apple.iTunes.eq.plist
com.apple.iTunesHelper.plist
com.apple.iTunes.plist

Here it is, finally.

The latest version of iTunes 7.7 brings the App Store.
Most of the applications are free; and that is an amazing thing for iPhone owners we are!
I’m so happy to see almost all the applications I use daily on my Mac available now for the iPhone like NetNewsWire, Twitterrific, or AIM!

The rumors were right, iTunes 7.7 came with a free utility that enables you to remotely control iTunes from your iPod Touch or iPhone.
No applications to customize the look (icons etc..) of the iPhone yet, but it would be amazing to have a CandyBar for the iPhone!

You can download iTunes 7.7 from here.