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- Price: Free
- Operating system: Windows XP/Vista
- Date added: July 14, 2009
- Total Downloads: 9,234,745
- Downloads last week: 26,788
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- CNET editors' rating: stars
- Average user rating: stars out of 1308 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 8.2.1.6 disables syncing with the Palm Pre, and includes accessibility improvements and bug fixes.
What's new in this version:
Version 8.2.1.6 disables syncing with the Palm Pre, and includes accessibility improvements and bug fixes.
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User reviews of Apple iTunes 8.2.1.6
- Average user rating: 3.1 stars out of 1308 votes
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1 out of 1 people found this review helpful
Version: Apple iTunes 8.2.1.6
"1 of the worst programs but I am stuck with it."
Pros: The only software I found that will sync video podcasts, but only sometimes.
Cons: Updates create new problems;
Won't run in Ubuntu;
Intermittently syncs video pods since last "update" - regardless of settings;;
Slow;
Sometimes have to "eject" iPod - sometimes I don't - regardless of "use as disk" setting.Summary: I do not recommend this software for anyone, for any reason at all... unless you happen to own an iPod... then you are pretty much stuck with it. While there are options available - e.g. Media Monkey, etc.. and some even run under Ubuntu, these do n... read more >>
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Version: Apple iTunes 8.2.1.6
"Itunes is a very entertaining application."
Pros: access to internet radio is fantastic.
Cons: What happened to your previously fast access to tuning services?
The new version seems to crawl when opening internet radio. It takes forever to conect to tuning services. I don't like to think that it takes luck to open itunes.Summary: Once itunes has opened, I am able to listen all day long - no buffering.
KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK ITUNES GUYS. Thank you for a wonderful program. -
Version: Apple iTunes 8.2.1.6
"iTunes is not my choice for a primary media player"
Pros: No distortion when veiwing videos in full screen.
Cons: Don't like control format. It could be a lot easier to use!
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Version: Apple iTunes 8.2.1.6
Pros: ease of use
Cons: good interface
Summary: excellent interface and ease of use around the site
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0 out of 1 people found this review helpful
Version: Apple iTunes 8.2.1.6
"Shrug Not an Apple Guy But..."
Pros: I can find all my audio podcasts and it updates them too...
Cons: Alot of extra stuff I don't need and I like other wish it could be a smaller program. Also I can't leave reviews for the Canadian website unless I use my credit card! Not gonna happen...
Summary: I need it for those audio podcasts but don't use it for anything else...
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