"shows will be available to download and buy 8 days after broadcast" so you can get them free via iPlayer for seven days, then cough up for an archival copy. Via different services, obviously.

"Apple is explicitly preventing DTrace from examining or recording data for processes which don't permit tracing" notably iTunes, presumably to keep all the bits of DRM in there from being reverse engineered.

UK prices to drop to the EU level, but there's the implication that if labels don't play along they'll lose catalogue. No sign of allowing you to buy tracks from outside your credit card's nation either.

I think he's a bit harsh, and as I point out in the comments, iTunes is really a different class of app to Winamp or Foobar2k; it's a library manager, not a player. Nonetheless it has got crufted up over the years, and Cover Flow isn't really helping.

Ars Technica covers My iTunes, a Flash widget showing purchases, reviews and favourites on the iTMS. I don't think this really invalidates my post today about Apple and Web 2.0; it's hardly going to rival last.fm, is it? Maybe they're trying, though.

This post didn't really seem worth the time to read it, but then I noticed the comments about the fact that the buyer tags from iTunes Plus tracks are stripped by the app.

"Higher Quality DRM-Free Tracks Now Available on the iTunes Store Worldwide" and Apple just make the "launch in May" deadline. Requires iTunes 7.2, it seems. Wonder why. EMI videos are DRM free too.

Jeremiah Foster fixes his iTMS authorisation issues. I disagree with him - and agree with the commenters - that the EU is right to try to get the iTMS to be country-neutral within the EU.

"Apple has always wanted to operate a single, pan-European iTunes store [...] but we were advised by the music labels and publishers that there were certain legal limits to the rights they could grant us." Blame the artists, then?

"When I bought some of the finest American music around and then moved to Sweden, my music was no longer authorized and cannot be played" I knew there were limits at purchase time, but authorisation that varies by territory is awful.

A comment on this post that figured out how album art was being downloaded delves into the strange behaviour when iTunes downloads it itself. I was a bit confused by this, but didn't investigate much.

A small Perl script. Looks like it might be handy.

FALCO! Interesting that AllOfMP3 is second most popular, and that illegal downloads aren't getting any less popular.

Looks like an awful lot of hard work to me, but interesting too

I wish people wouldn't conflate the iPod with ID3- should Apple rewrite metadata standards? I expect there are people out there who wish that people wouldn't do the same with "MP3 player", too, for different reasons.

Sigh. Just that. Sigh.

'Apple also announced a new public beta of “Just for You” personalized music recommendations and the debut of online customer reviews.' - for all the "iTunes isn't social enough" people

A bit more human-readable detail of what JHymn does, including how iTunes 4.7.1 uses watermarking to enforce DRM

OK, so it's my rant. It's not news. That's what happens when you stop 95% of the planet getting at a service.

Yes, I have this too. Spent a chunk of yesterday adding album covers to a few hundred tracks

21 from the iTMS, but how do the others split between rips and warez?

Sven's post tells him how to fix the arrow behaviour. I mailed Powazek, but he has anti-spam stuff. He's still nice enough to mail me back though.

Sven's coverage is the best roundup I've read (far better than the MacLife guy's one, certainly)

New release (4.5, complete with "Jukebox" tag to distinguish from iTMS) (plus iPod software 2.2, *not* for 3g iPods only) (oops)

Another (prettier) ITMS front end

Another protected-AAC-to-not-DRMed app, but this one decompresses, so not as useful

More DRM breaking fun

Oh, so Slashdot's picked up on the iTMS thing (and called it by the wrong name, grargh grargh)

More Apple encryption breaking in here (after daap and PlayFair)- hmm