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- Price: Free
- Operating system: Windows XP/Vista/7
- Date added: January 31, 2010
- Total Downloads: 10,100,658
- Downloads last week: 45,937
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- CNET editors' rating: stars
- Average user rating: stars out of 1339 votes
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CNET editors' review
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:
Version 9.0.3 provides a number of important bug fixes, including iTunes no longer ignores your "Remember password for purchases" setting and addresses problems with syncing some Smart Playlists and Podcasts with iPod.
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- Average user rating: 3.1 stars out of 1339 votes
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Version: Apple iTunes 9.0.3.15
Pros: couldnt tell you
Cons: Downloaded it, Wife try to install it while i was at work. NO MORE iTUNES!
Summary: I had downloaded iTunes since every day it seemed to ask me too, ( I have been leary since Ver 7.1 something screwed me over), anyway whle I was at work my wife followed the instructions, during the last few seconds of install i get an alert that r... read more >>
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Version: Apple iTunes 9.0.3.15
"An ideal all-in-one media player... if you can run it."
Pros: Looks nice and takes the hassle out of editing or sorting multiple files of media.
Cons: The big issue with iTunes is its size. Large programs means large resource consumption.
Summary: Don't let iTunes' simplistic interface throw you off?under the hood, Apple's commercialized media player may fall your digital media experience short. I'm not denying its useful features (it's just as easy to create and customize playlists as it is... read more >>
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Version: Apple iTunes 9.0.3.15
Pros: I can download movies legally,finally.
Cons: Kinda slow downloading sometimes.
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Version: Apple iTunes 9.0.3.15
Pros: Have nothing good to say about this.
Cons: Crashed my first gen. iphone.
Summary: Rolled back windows xp one day. Repaired apple application support, apple mobile device support and apple software update. Rebooted computer, changed usb ports. Restored iphone. THANKS GUYS !!
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Version: Apple iTunes 9.0.3.15
Pros: If it works, it's brilliant.
Cons: Lots of BSOD's, due to poor memory management. This software is used mostly by Windows users - but works only well on Apples. The software and data handling is VERY poorly structured. Needs to be developed from the ground up.
Summary: Please!, Apple, get your act together. The hardware is brilliant - why must the software be so poor?
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