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iTunes 9 now available

Today’s Apple media event announced the arrival of iTunes 9.

Some highlights of the update are:

• Genius mixes, described as being almost like a radio station
• Better syncing, the layout & functionality has been improved
• The big one for us is you can now manage, arrange, delete & organise your iPhone’s apps from itunes. A lot better than spending 15 minutes on you iPhone/iPod moving everything around
• Home sharing, you can not only stream music from other computers in your home but you can now also copy songs to & from up to 5 computers making a duplicate in your own library. It will even tell you what songs you don’t have
• The store has been redesigned & cleaned up
• iTunes LP, Where albums have extra features such as artwork, videos, lyrics & more
• Wish list in the store (I like this idea, I can start to collect all of the songs i want & slowly purchase as I can afford)
• Share your likes to Facebook & Twitter. Also If your on Facebook you can become a fan of iTunes page for a few extras

Some other things of interest were:

• The iTunes store now in 23 countries
• 8.5 billion songs downloaded
• Over 100 million user accounts (Apple loves to note all with credit cards, Was this event for stock holders?)
• 30, 000 ringtones now available at $1.29 US