To coincide with the release of the new Shuffle, Apple yesterday released iTunes 8.1. Apple updated the Genius sidebar to include movie and TV recommendations, improved speed when importing large libraries, added sync support for the new Shuffle, improved parental controls and added iTunes DJ. According to Macworld:

With iTunes DJ, iPhone users that have Apple’s Remote application installed can request songs to be played. Users can also vote to control when songs are played. The DJ feature even has its own preferences, so you can send a welcome message to users and control whether voting is turned on or off. You can also require users to type in a password to access iTunes DJ’s features.

We’re not sure about the utility of the new iTunes DJ but you never know, it might be useful to some.

iTunes 8.1 should be available via Software Update and as always is free.

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