Apple releases iTunes 4.7, iPod updater

Apple today released iTunes 4.7, which brings support for the nine new iTunes Music Stores as well adds a new 'Artist Alerts' feature. Users can now be automatically notified via email when an artist has a new song available at the iTunes Music Store. iTunes 4.7 also includes "support for copying photos to an iPod photo, the ability to show duplicate songs in your library, and other performance improvements." Apple also released its new iPod Updater 2004-10-20, which includes iPod Photo Software 1.0 for use with iPod Photo as well as the same iPod software included in iPod Updater 2004-08-06 for all other iPod models.

New Updates for iPod Photo

• High-resolution, backlit color LCD display
  
• Browse and view photos in a 5 x 5 thumbnail view or full screen view
  
• Browse photo collections or view photo slideshows with music
  
• Improved battery life for up to 15 hours of music playback
  
• Up to 5 hours of photo slideshow viewing with music
  
• Scrolling titles during music navigation for songs, albums, and artists
  

Updates for Click Wheel iPods

• Improved connectivity with some FireWire cards using the VIA chipset
  
• Improved connectivity with FireWire hubs, and with 4-pin FireWire ports
  
• Improved power management
  
• Improved performance with the optional external battery pack
  
• Removing headphones while the hold switch is on no longer wakes iPod
  

Updates for iPod with a Dock connector and iPod mini

• Compatibility with iTunes 4.5 or later and the iTunes Music Store
  
• Improved playback performance
  
• Support for the Apple Lossless Encoder, to enable compressed music encoding at high quality
  

Updates for iPod without a Dock connector

• Compatibility with iTunes 4.5 or later and the iTunes Music Store
  
• Improved playback performance
  

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