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hey everyone welcome to the inside scoop I'm cnet's cars tsuboi joined by staff writer Josh Lowensohn hey Josh so much anticipated iTunes 11 finally came out why the delay first of all well Apple said they needed more time to get it right and of course users actually get to test that out for themselves it came out this morning and this is really a piece of software that's been expected for years yeah because itunes 10 was when 2010 so they've kind of put out more more point updates that can i added features things like iTunes Match and 1080p video basically just bolting on features but it hasn't really been a full kind of rethink of the software until now and you've had a couple of hours to play with it what are your thoughts so far we definitely clean things up I mean for new users there they're all the things are still there they're just kind of in different places okay it's not too hard to figure out your way around but they definitely kind of move things around to be a little bit more wide and open that includes things like this new album view which kind of expands out to show you what songs are in albums they really don't way with some of the more complex ways to go through your music for example what did they get rid of it will no longer have you can no longer use cover flow which was there once touted feature total seems like the crowning feature in 2006 and now it's completely gone ok I think cuz people didn't really use it so that's not there anymore you also don't have things like the dee duper for music this is the thing that if you had duplicate tracks it would actually go through and help you clean it up which is actually really handy so why you're rid of it I don't know that's Apple ok and what are some of the new standout features that we've never seen before well they have a new mini player so it's kind of hard to get excited about a mini player but if you're the kind of person who has a lot of things going on your desktop you don't really like to hop around this lets you just have just a miniature iTunes experience they had this before but it was kind of limited in the features now you can do things like search and make playlists and really kind of manage what you want to hear next all those sorts of things from something that's just this big on your desktop Tandy yeah ok and something about a new camera integration with iTunes right yes this is actually a surprise feature and they they put this into the store so if you're on a Mac it's only for now if you have a gift card you can actually hold it up to your your computer and it'll scan it and find the code for you and put it in so you don't actually have to type it out that's cool I'm really hoping this comes to things like your phone and obviously pcs so if you get something from like Starbucks like when they're free app cards you just scan it because those things are just you know it's like a 20 digit code yeah totally and that makes great sense to integrate all of the features of the computer with you know how we use these things in real life right makes a lot of sense very cool iTunes 11 out now get your hands on it it's available for free download upgrade and hopefully it'll be bug less and seamless we'll see about that thank you so much Josh Lowensohn I'm Kara Tsuboi you've been watching the inside scoop