January 2024
iLounge on iTunes 8
iLounge has an excellent overview of the new features in iTunes 8. Particularly good details on the Genius features.
Genius Playlists and AppleScript
As far as AppleScript is concerned, iTunes 8's Genius playlists are user playlists with a special kind of none and a smart value of true, and therefore they are indistinguishable from Smart playlists. I don't know if eventually there will be a special kind value of "Genius", but for now distinguishing a Genius playlist from Smart playlists will not be easy.
iTunes 8 Loses Prefs Control for Genre Browser
Switch off the iTunes 8 Genre browser via a defaults write command in Terminal.
iTunes 8
Apple released iTunes 8 today at the "Let's Rock" event.
Happily, the "whose clause" bug from v7.7.1 has been fixed: a filter using an implied plural ("every" or a range) will return a list and one that implies singularity ("first", "last", "some") returns a bare item. As it should be.
More as it develops.