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Although iTunes has always been one of the best pieces of jukebox software available, the company continues to improve upon a great thing with version 6, which adds the much-rumored video capabilities. Though the last major release of this program featured a revamped design, the big news this time around is a video player that accomodates both your own files and ones you buy at the iTunes Music Store. The experience of both purchasing and playing videos is almost identical to perfoming the same actions with music, so seasoned users will have no trouble. All the features we've loved from past versions are still intact, including seamless iPod integration, smart playlists, CD burning, label printing, the ability to rip files in multiple formats (except WMA), network sharing, and, of course, the enormously successful iTunes Music Store. Rounding out the feature set are parental controls, integrated podcasts, and a smart-shuffle option. Whether you're already among the converted or have yet to try this top-notch player, iTunes 6 should find a home on any media junkie's computer. iTunes 7.7:Publisher's Description
From Apple:
iTunes, the award-winning digital-jukebox software, is now available for Mac and Windows. The iTunes Music Store offers Windows users the same online music store as Mac users, with the same music catalog, the same personal-use rights, and the same 99-cents-per-song pricing. With music from all five major music companies and more than 600 independent labels, the iTunes Music Store catalog now offers more than 1,000,000 songs. Features include a free download with no hidden charges for extra features, MP3 and pristine-quality AAC-encoding from audio CDs, smart playlists, more than 250 free Internet radio stations, and the ability to burn custom playlists to CDs and MP3 CDs, to burn content to DVDs to back up an entire music collection, and to share music via Rendezvous over any network, cross-platform.
This version introduces 2,000 music videos at the iTunes Music Store to go with the new iPods.
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3.0 starsout of 43 votes
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"Very poor software"
Version: iTunes for Windows 6
Pros
Good interface to iPod -- and that is all I can say for it!
Cons
Poor performance. Does not detect new CDs in drive (and all auto notifications are set properly). Terrible ripping performance -- less than half as fast as Windows Media player. Non-intuitive interface for some functions. I have yet to find a way to select the bit rate of ripped music (can it even be done?).
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"Windows ME users can take a hike!"
Version: iTunes for Windows 6
Pros
who knows?
Cons
Amazing how Apple has become part of the scheme to force us to keep updating proprietary software all the time. We're slaves of the big guys!
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"Nice if one has an iPod, otherwise forget about it."
Version: iTunes for Windows 6
Pros
The iTunes Music Store is the best thing about it. One can find virtually any piece of music from its vast database of songs, videos, etc.. Also, the sharing and the CD burning is nice, too.
Cons
All this stuff about "Dauthorize computer" and "Consolidate library", too hard to understand. Plus the fact that one can lose all their music! Complicated. There are other, 'Friendlier' music players out there. Just personal preference, I guess.
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"Popular but unimpressive"
Version: iTunes for Windows 6
Pros
Fairly intuitive interface. No installation issues. Plays formats proprietary to iTunes. My kids like it.
Cons
Too much junk runs in the background. I don't have an iPod, but iTunes insists on running the iPod service anyway. You also have to install all of QuickTime (like it or not) and QT insists on putting itself in the startup process. There are freeware programs that playback my MP3's as good and even better than iTunes that don't take over my computer (I like Quintessential Media Player).
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"Good, but not for dual processors"
Version: iTunes for Windows 6
Pros
Itunes is a great product for most users. It's relatively easy to use, has a clean interface and connects easily to the Ipod.
Cons
However...
Do NOT use this application to manage your music if you have an Athlon X2, at least no version prior to 6.0.1.3. Long batch processes (importing folders) spawn multiple threads (good) but the threads will eventually complete at the same time at which point Itunes will crash without any useful diagnostic message. If this is fixed in a later release, it's a good enough program. Until then, find a replacement (Anapod, PodPlus, etc...)
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"awesome"
Version: iTunes for Windows 6
Pros
this is the best music jukebox program i have ever used. it sync's conviently with your ipod the second u plug it in. it is very easy to use.
Cons
all the people that have norton firewall have probably noticed that it would install, but would not launch afterward. to solve this you have to add this problem, you have to double-click on the norton internet security icon, click on personal firewall, go to configure (underneath the "turn off" button), click the "programs" tab, go down to the bottom where it says "add" and click that,then find the itunes folder and click open, you will see an itunes icon, select it, and click open. then a message will pop-up from norton. highlight "permit" from all the options, then click "ok".
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"blah, only use it to sample music"
Version: iTunes for Windows 6
Pros
Apple definitely has the marketing advantage of other services, and as such, they get deals for some music you can't find on other services.
Cons
I don't own an iPod and don't plan on ever owning one. I think they're overpriced. I don't really like the navigation within iTunes, if you're previewing a song and go to a different page, it stops playing the music. The servers are slow - when a couple of my friends tried downloading episodes of Lost when Apple first announced they had the show, my friends couldn't download the show because the servers were too busy.
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"DONT DO IT"
Version: iTunes for Windows 6
Pros
I like buying music from the iTunes store amd that's about it.
Cons
After upgrading from 4.?? I lost all my playlists, and a bunch of purchased music. Fortunately I had a backup copies of the files. No version of iTunes has never been stable for me, but at least it always presented my media to me. I think I am going to convert to xPlay, because it is simple and it works. and go back to buying cd's and ripping my own music. As with any download music store the quality is never as good as a cd and the DRM stuff is absurd. A few bad apples ruin it for us all. Bottom line I wasted an entire day trying to get my playlists back and that anoys me to no end. After it happened I looked online and it would appear I am not the only one who had this problem. I am done with iTunes
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"Apple is God, iTunes is God's gift to Humanity."
Version: iTunes for Windows 6
Pros
In a perfect world, all computers would run on Apple software. While Microsoft seems to view a computer as a game of problem-solving -- with fresh new problems added daily, each more inexplicable than the next! -- Apple designs software that an average, computer-un-savvy user can look at and make sense out of. If products made for Macintosh computers were not so damn hard to find, I'd be using an Apple, and so would pretty much everybody.
However, when Apple makes products that run on Windows computers, everybody should use them. iTunes for Windows is no exception, with a simple interface, easy-to-use controls, and pretty much every other positive quality you can imagine in a piece of software. If more companies made software like this, the world would be a better place.
Cons
The amount of things I don't like about iTunes is not only "zero," it's into negative numbers.
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"It works, but I prefer...."
Version: iTunes for Windows 6
Pros
It is a Music Management software. It has a really easy to use interface and is pretty good about the library. Only great if you use an ipod
Cons
I don't like this software because it makes you convert all of your wma files to MPEG 4. Too proprietary, but it is Apple based software. I would recommend another far far FAR better software than this one, MediaMonkey. It accomplishes the same thing without having to convert files and what not. Go to mediamonkey.com and get the download or on download.com.
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