iTunes 9.1 Expected to Bring Things up to Speed for iPad
iTunes 9.1 will drop around the same time as the iPad launch this Saturday
With the pending release of the iPad, Apple will have outgrown its iTunes software yet again. According to MacRumors, however, iTunes 9.1 will drop around the same time as the iPad launch this Saturday. The release will make a couple of changes to the iTunes Store's categories, improve its Genius Mix feature, and change around the device management interface.
With 9.1, the "Audiobooks" subhead in the iTunes Store will be absorbed into a new source category, "Books," presumably catering to the iBooks app on the iPad. Likewise, MacRumors mentions that Books (as well as other categories) may start displaying content that caters to the capabilities of connected devices—iPad, iPod, or iPhone—in hopes of making content management smoother. There's been no mention of whether the newspaper and magazine deals Apple probably hopes to cut will fall into the (perhaps not-so-aptly-named) Books category.
iTunes 9.1 is also expected to rearrange some of the device management interface, such as moving the "Check for Update" and "Restore" buttons over to the left side. Users may also be able to automatically convert songs to 128Kbps AAC when they sync the songs to their devices, a feature currently available to only the iPod shuffle. The format change is intended to help users squeeze more stuff on their players while the files remain in their original format on the computer.
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