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- Price: Free
- Operating system: Windows Vista, Windows XP SP 2, Windows XP
- Date added: October 29, 2009
- Total Downloads: 9,665,418
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- Average user rating: stars out of 1296 votes
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Reviewed by: Jason Parker on September 21, 2008
Apple's iTunes is an all-in-one jukebox that lets you play music, movies, and podcasts, and also lets you connect to the iTunes Store to browse and buy additional content. iTunes has become the industry standard in media players, largely because of its connection to iPods and the iPhone. This latest version adds a number of new interface enhancements, as well as some new features to make managing your media and devices easier.
For those unfamiliar with the program, iTunes lets you play and manage music, movies, podcasts and more all from within an easy-to-understand interface. You can burn and encode CDs, listen to streaming radio, and connect to the iTunes Store to buy music and videos, iPhone apps, ringtones, and more. Apple's Genius feature lets you create playlists based around any song using the Genius algorithm to match up similar music. Perhaps most importantly, you can connect Apple's iPhone and iPod products to iTunes to sync music, movies, apps, photos, and ringtones, and keep your device firmware up to date.
iTunes 9 comes with a number of feature enhancements mostly to improve upon the way you interact with iTunes, your devices, and the iTunes Store. The interface of the iTunes Store has been cleaned up for easier navigation, redesigned with a new layout and a new black tabbed-menu system across the top. These new tabs replace the old left-side navigation to choose between categories like music, apps, movies, and podcasts. Also new to the iTunes Store, Apple has added more content when you purchase entire albums--what it's referring to as "LPs." Now when you purchase a full album or LP, you can show songs with lyrics, explore bonus content, and check out extra content created by the musicians themselves. All of these features are available for movies as well, including chapter selection, bonus content, and more.
The way you interact with apps on the iPhone and iPod Touch has also been improved. You can now interact with your home screen visually right inside the iTunes window, letting you drag apps wherever you want them before syncing to your device. You also now have the ability to selectively sync specific artists or playlists, or sync your photos by specific albums or faces.
For all the things iTunes does well, the Windows version is still not up to par with its Mac counterpart. iPhone and iPod syncing is much slower, and some say the program uses up too many system resources. Still, whether you're already among the converted or have yet to try this top-notch player, iTunes 9 offers a laundry list of useful features with the benefits outweighing the costs.
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Publisher's description
From Apple :iTunes is a free application for Mac and PC. It plays all your digital music and video. It syncs content to your iPod, iPhone, and Apple TV. And it's an entertainment superstore that stays open 24/7.
What's new in this version:
- Adds support for Apple TV software version 3.0, adds an option for a dark background for Grid View, and improves support for accessibility.
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- Average user rating: 3.1 stars out of 1296 votes
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Version: Apple iTunes 9.0.2
"Killed My Ipod and doesnot want to repair it"
Pros: Good Sound
Cons: Its format does not allow to play your music with other players. It is not working well for Vista and killed my IPod. Amazing IPod was made to play in ITunes.
Summary: Too much hype for something that does not deserves that. has some problems with GraceNote to get the right infor from CD/DVD and in overall is an overrate program. The free world need not many restrictions. Apple programmers need to do better.
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Version: Apple iTunes 9.0.2
"Quick start up, brilliant design."
Pros: More videos types playable than ever before
Cons: More bugs than previous version.
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Version: Apple iTunes 9.0.2
Pros: Easy of use and quicker load time
Cons: I do not know if it is iTunes 9.0 or any of the updates but my iPod (80 gig video) has since died. I get a random unknown error message (something like error -63) and I can only load ~6 gigs of music out of a library of ~35 gigs.
Summary: see cons
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Version: Apple iTunes 9.0.2
"I-Tunes The Way it Should Be !"
Pros: A.Adding new quicktime movies to your library is easier.you don't need anymore to manually add the files, its automatic
B) Itunes, adjusts your space andwill prompt you, and delete some stuff to gain space which is great. No manual hassles anymore.Cons: none so far, need to still test its entie functionality
Summary: worth upgrading to the latest version. Its driven by more intutitive options that make it it easier to be used day in day out. I think the advantages will outwiegh whatever if anything) might be negative about the product.
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Version: Apple iTunes 9.0.2
"Works fine on my PC-no better or worse than prev revs."
Pros: It downloaded and works well with 64bit Windows 7. No special effort was required.
Cons: As I use the "Year" field to place the music's year of release, when I upgrade to a better recording, the year sometimes changes to the year of the better recording. This causes me to have to Google the artist's in wikipediw.
Summary: As I only transfer music to iPods, I do not have any problems with iTunes. I have over 9,500 songs on the present iTunes library.
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