More Details Emerge About iTunes 9

We now know a little more about the new iTunes 9 that is set to come out soon. We knew that it would be Blu-ray friendly and include some sort of social network integration, but we weren’t prepared for this.

According to Boy Genius the new iTunes 9 will be a giant resource hogging monster with the following specs:

• Blu-ray integration to go with Blu-ray support in upcoming Macs—iTunes 8.2 sorta kinda pointed to Blu-ray, if you recall

• Ability to re-arrange your iPhone/iPod touch apps in various ways (the one feature I actually want)

• Social networking integration: This seems like it'll start out slightly more involved than say, iPhoto's Facebook integration (though hopefully less crappy), but grow deeper as it hooks into a "Social" application Apple will release in the future that'll consolidate all of your social networking services into a single app. At launch, iTunes 9's social networking component—which'll tap Facebook, Twitter and Last.fm—will do stuff like broadcast the music you're listening to, share music with people in your networks (remote streaming?), and update all of your various statuses.

• Cocktail—Apple's plan to revive the album, with "a new type of interactive album material, including photos, lyric sheets and liner notes that allow users to click through to items that they find most interesting" according to the Financial Times.

It will now be possible to watch a Blu-ray disc, rearrange your iPhone, and update your status all from one place. I am interested to see how iTunes will handle the remote streaming capability and if that is even legal. If tradition holds true, and Apple has a media event in September, like they have for the past few years, we should know more details about it then.

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