We have now been looking ahead to this one for ages , but here it’s: Apple Remote 2.0 is now available at the Apple Store. And oh boy, it’s dee-lish. Updated with hands-on.

The new edition is optimized for the Retina Display on the iPhone 4 and iPod touch, in addition as for the iPad, with its own interface. It also supports Shared Libraries and the recent Apple TV.

Hands-on

Apple Remote is one of my favorite iPhone applications. Simple and straightforward to exploit, it just does what it says it does: Remotely access your media libraries and play it back. However, it didn’t work natively on the iPad, running in blown-up pixelated iPhone mode.

The re-creation works flawlessly on the iPad, and likewise on the Retina Display of the iPhone 4 and the most recent iPod touch. On the iPad, it looks a great deal like the native iPod application, including the flexibility to create playlists remotely, in addition as Genius playlists on the fly. If you try this last item, you will see that the interface on the desktop iTunes changing automagically.

My only complain is that I will’t drag and drop songs to playlists whenever I need, clone of you could’t try this inside the native iPod application. I will be able to’t understand why Apple doesn’t enable this selection, allowing you to populate lists dynamically as you explore songs, rather than making you enter in edit mode, and wade through artists and songs.

But in everything else, the brand new Remote 2.0 works flawlessly and looks pretty. [ iTunes Store ]

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