iTunes Plus Price Drop Confirmed for Today or Tomorrow

Ars Technica first reported yesterday that Apple was ready to lower the price of iTunes Plus tracks from $1.29 for the DRM free music to $.99 which puts it in line with the pricing on the DRM laden tracks in the rest of the iTunes Store. Steve Jobs, and you can't get a better source than that, has confirmed with the Wall Street Journal that this will be happening either today or tomorrow. On Top of that iTunes Plus Now Offers Over Two Million Tracks.

Family Guy Now on iTunes

Friggin sweet.

iTunes 7.2 Bring DRM-Free Goodness

With iTunes 7.2 you can preview and purchase iTunes Plus music (the new higher-quality, DRM-free music downloads) from participating music labels. However the iTunes Store doesnt seem to have this music available yet.

iTunes Rumored to Get Subscription Based Service

According to Les Ottolenghi, CEO of INTENT MediaWorks, Apple could be leaning towards implementing such a service "within the next six months," and even went so far as to suggest we not believe any Apple-based denials that could potentially follow. Interestingly, several analysts even suggested that subscription-based systems haven't garnered much fanfare simply because the head honcho in digital music distribution isn't playing along.

HD Video via iTunes

The first HD content to come threw iTunes are from the Washington Post in podcast form. Hopefully this means we will be seeing more HD content in the near future to stream to our shinny new Apple TVs.

EMI DRM Free Tracks on iTunes

Not only will EMI songs be DRM free, but they will also be available at twice the bitrate of other songs on iTunes. There is a catch though, single DRM free tracks will cost $1.29 per single, however, the lower bitrate version will still be available for $.99. As another bonus, the album and music video price will not change and stay at the current $9.99 and $1.99, and you will be able to "upgrade" your current tracks for $.30. These service will be made available this May.

Incase you're wondering, a few EMI artists are Beastie Boys, The Beatles, Gorillaz, Radiohead, and The Rolloing Stones.

Apple to Credit Song Purchases Towards Full Album (Update)

Apple is finally working out deals with labels to allow for the purchase of singles on iTunes to act as credit towards the purchase of the full album, at least within a limited time frame. Basically, if you purchase 3 songs from on album that has 13 songs you can now pay the seven dollar difference for the whole album instead of paying 13 dollars for each individual song.

Update: It's official. You can now find the "CompleteMy Album" feature in the Quick Links section in the iTune Store.

Apple TV Hacked to Play XviD

The plus side is all of your pirated movies and tv shows are playable on your Apple TV and while your in there you can upgrade you hard drive. The downside is you've voided your warranty and the firewall is left wide open. Fair trade off?

Export 720P Video in QuickTime

In an undisclosed and largely unnoticed update to its QuickTime video playback and conversion software, Apple has quietly added an “Export to Apple TV” feature capable of creating high-definition videos viewable on the Apple TV accessory. Export to Apple TV creates not only full DVD-quality 720 by 404 videos, but also 1280 by 720 videos that are viewable in iTunes.

iTunes 7.1 Released

Same old iTunes but now it supports vista and Apple TV.

Songs from iPod Commercials

A list of all the songs used in the iPod commercials with iTunes links.

MyTunesRSS

MyTunesRSS allows you to access the music and videos from your iTunes library over a local network or the internet. It will let you open an m3u playlist in any application that supports it and will even let you download whole playlists or individual songs or videos. Super simple to use. The only bad thing is you cant play songs or video threw your web browser you need an external application like iTunes, Media Player, or WinAmp.

iTunes Visualization Keyboard Commands

Edit your iTunes visuals with shortcuts.