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- Price: Free
- Operating system: Windows Vista, Windows XP
- Date added: April 06, 2009
- Total Downloads: 9,445,072
- Downloads last week: 34,502
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- CNET editors' rating: stars
- Average user rating: stars out of 1263 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.
Version 8.1.1 adds support for renting HD movies and provides a number of bug fixes, including addressing issues with VoiceOver and syncing with iPhone or iPod touch.
What's new in this version:
Version 8.1.1 adds support for renting HD movies and provides a number of bug fixes, including addressing issues with VoiceOver and syncing with iPhone or iPod touch.
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User reviews of Apple iTunes 8.1.1
- Average user rating: 3.1 stars out of 1263 votes
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Version: Apple iTunes 8.1.1
Pros: Easy to use. Reasonably good style. Sounds quite good and obviously ideal if you have an ipod.
Cons: Downloading of album art can be hit and miss. Lacks options for changing the appearance, a feature of other media players.
Summary: I was previously using a paid version of media monkey but following a number of crashes and errors I decided to change to iTunes. Since then I have experienced no crashes or problems other than the wrong album art occasionally appearing which I have... read more >>
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Version: Apple iTunes 8.1.1
"Problem with installing and playing music"
Pros: Nothing good about this release
Cons: 1. Doesnt recognise apple formats- skips them
2. DJ only shows MP3
3. Have set itunes as default for all audio files, but still doesnt workSummary: Apple took a world class software and completely jammed it up with the new release !
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Version: Apple iTunes 8.1.1
Pros: Good organizer, plays all you want it to.
Cons: Uses resources, tries to sell you stuff. Gets the album artwork wrong and that's hard to correct.
Summary: I wouldn't be without it, but could wish it was better.
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Version: Apple iTunes 8.1.1
Pros: just to try for my ipod
Cons: make my computer so slow
Summary: its good for personal use only bout for others to use not good
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1 out of 1 people found this review helpful
Version: Apple iTunes 8.1.1
Pros: looks nice
Cons: I bought a new iPod touch 32Gb and connected to my XP PC the iTunes opened automatically. Registered my iPod then it asked my to install a 275 Mb update to my PC (I did). ever since the iTunes has not recognized my iPod and I cannot tsfr any files
Summary: don't expect much if you don't have a Mac . I'll try again when Win 7 comes out. I wish MS and Jobs would get their sh*t together ...
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