- Quick specs
- Price: Free
- Operating system: Windows 2000/XP
- Date added: January 12, 2006
- Total Downloads: 8,774,192
- Downloads last week: 25,669
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A newer version of iTunes for Windows is available.
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- CNET editors' rating: stars
- Average user rating: stars out of 1312 votes
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CNET editors' review
Reviewed by: CNET Staff
Although iTunes has always been one of the best pieces of jukebox software available, the company improved upon a great thing with version 6, which added the much-rumored video capabilities. The built-in video player accomodates both your own files and ones you buy at the iTunes Music Store; right-clicking a clip lets you render it iPod-compatible. 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 love 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. By default, iTunes now adds a MiniStore to the bottom of your library, but you can disable it without much trouble. 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.
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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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User reviews of iTunes for Windows 6.2
- Average user rating: 3.1 stars out of 1312 votes
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11 out of 16 people found this review helpful
Version: iTunes for Windows 6.2
"Great audio file program, but the music store needs one considerable change"
Pros: Not much change from the 6.0. It orders your mp3, acc, m4p, and m4a collection. Has many options for ordering, playing, random shuffle. Has podcasts, but they do not impress me much.
Has a great visualizer, does not need much RAM. View options have a large variety of information for songs. Automatically creates folders for each artist with albums instead of mp3 files spread out in a the iTunes music folder.
Great sound quality. Great video quality for the videos. Not slow at all. Mini player is ok, it doesn't have much for options at all.
I would recommend this as your main music player, but only for that.
Cons: You must have a seperate program to get rid of duplicate songs. It automatically converts WMAs, which creates a new file and takes up double space on your harddrive. Also the store is very slow at browsing.
The thing that really makes me mad about Apple is buying music from them. DO NOT buy from them unless you have an iPod. The format that you buy it in is a protected m4p, in which only iPod can play, no other mp3 player. I have an iRiver and I can't get my songs on there because of Apple.
The built-in CD ripper is really slow and only rips in m4a format, which is also only compatible with iPod. Does not see an external CD writer. Must have a built-in CD writer.
If you have a different CD writer installed (i.e. BACKPACK CD-REWRITER) iTunes will notice it and come up with a message saying that there is another CD writer program installed, reinstal iTunes... very annoying.
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1 out of 4 people found this review helpful
Version: iTunes for Windows 6.2
Pros: Nice Interface, Good Library management- That's it
Cons: This program caused my system to slow down big time. Now for the music downloaders out there who may think that downloading music from the net is fast & saves you from having to go to your nearest record store yes it is but, I have been in Radio for over 14 years & I'm becomming very concerned that big companies who provide theses services are taking much deserved royalties from performing artist, remember that these artist take the time to:
1: SIT DOWN & WRITE songs for a album
2: GO Into the recording Studio
3: LAUNCH an album and promote it
4: GO OUT ON TOUR for our enjoyment
When downloading you next single/album think about how much that artist will be getting from you download IF IT'S LEGEL
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4 out of 5 people found this review helpful
Version: iTunes for Windows 6.2
Pros: Easy to use and updates the ipod quick
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2 out of 2 people found this review helpful
Version: iTunes for Windows 6.2
"Stable & gets the job done but it can be slow at times"
Pros: Easy to use, very powerful, gets the job done. Even if you don't own an ipod, this program is worth getting, I only use it because I have an ipod mini but I really like it, it works well with the ipod and it's a great program.
Cons: You have to put files into a playlist to burn them, can take up alot of memory, ripping CD's can sometimes result in locking up of your computer.
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4 out of 4 people found this review helpful
Version: iTunes for Windows 6.2
Pros: Great product to play music... fantastic equilizer, and great music store interface.
Cons: Wish it had more filename editing features, like Music Monkey, etc.
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