Markus

Get it here. Or wait a few hours and it should appear in Software Update.

angrynorth

Cheers Markus, seems there are a couple of interesting new features. The Address book and iCal now synced to the iPod through iTunes? Weird choice. I guess that just leaves iSync now floundering with not much to do other than phones, especially now .Mac as moved out.

I suppose this update will also kill Reals "Harmony" again, and any other Hymn type stuff.

angrynorth

Having a quick play with this I see we now have a "Play video Full Screen" button? Could it be that we may be seeing the first moves towards a Movie store or at least the bundling of Music Videos with tunes?

class_A

I would guess that moving the iPod to Contacts sync into iTunes is to cater for Windows users with Outlook who've previously had to manually export vCards to their iPods since there was no iSync functionality available. Same reason for having iPod photo sync inside iTunes rather than in iSync or iPhoto. They want to iTunes to be the only place to deal with your iPod, rather than having different functions handled by different applications.

I wouldn't really see iSync as floundering - after all it's just got a nice upgrade care of the SyncServices engine and SyncML in Tiger.

angrynorth

OK, maybe floundering was the wrong word, but it has certainly been stripped of a couple of responsibilities. First .Mac and now the iPod. I only have my phone synced through iSync now.

class_A

Mine won't even do that until I upgrade to Tiger. My girlfriends SE K700 works fine but my P910 doesn't. It's my bloody Mac. Where's the justice there?!

messiah

With any luck it'll sort my audio cd burning problem.

Have they remedied the duplicate tracks thing yet?

angrynorth

I see we now have Video Singles in the store .

Markus

Yup, there is new support for video playback in IT 4.8. From what i've read, the vids are .m4a but *not* DRM encoded, which is nice.

Would guess the harmony/hmyn stuff will be broken again, but it wont' take too long for a fix for that to appear.

To be honest, I have not actually read the change history on 4.8 (too busy working on our own software releases at the moment)

With regards to it being odd that iTunes is now handling syncing of contacts and calendars, well, if you factor in the iTunes compatible phones that are going to be released, it makes more sense. use iTunes to sync your contacts on your phone with your mac, and vice versa, and also sync the music as well. Guessing the phone would act like a mini iPod type thing in that respect.