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- Price: Free
- Operating system: Windows XP, Windows 2000
- Date added: September 27, 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 1281 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 7, which added enhanced video capabilities and new ways to view your music library. A cleaned-up left sidebar makes finding your music and videos a snap and the new Album and Cover-Flow view options let you flip through CDs in style. The built-in video player accomodates both your own files and ones you buy at the iTunes Store; right-clicking a clip lets you render it iPod-compatible. With the addition of full-length movies at the iTunes Store (Music is no longer part of the name), you can now view near-DVD quality movies at a resolution of 640x480. The experience of both purchasing and playing movies and videos is almost identical to perfoming the same actions with music, so seasoned users will have no trouble (with fast broadband, movies download in about a half hour).
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 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 7 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.
Version 7 adds navigation by album covers with Cover Flow, backup features, Apple Software Update for Windows, and high-quality feature movies for preview and purchase. Version 7.0.1 fixes bugs which were reported in the initial release.
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User reviews of iTunes for Windows 7.0.1
- Average user rating: 3.1 stars out of 1281 votes
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8 out of 17 people found this review helpful
Version: iTunes for Windows 7.0.1
Pros: Excellent and well-managed interface. Managing music is very easy, and the music store is the best I've ever known. The new "flipping through albums" are just great, and sound quality is really good as always. The interface changed, but it's still the media player with the best interface for me.
Cons: This version has improved a lot, but you can't avoid the flaws. I have a system with 2.4GHz and 1GB RAM, and it just runs great. But on my system with 2.4GHz and 256MB RAM, it just slows down compared to version 6. Before, I can run YM v8; Opera; and iTunes v6 very smoothly, but now; even though you can run them at the same time it's a bit slower. And I think the interface has affected the way it runs too, since when you hover through the music in the library (I don't keep playlists, I just manage them in one library) it's slow unlike before. And when adding multiple music tracks, I can only add up to 3. Before, I can add as much as I like without any errors; but now I import them 3 by 3's, and it's just annoying when you have to transfer albums. I don't know if it's like this with other systems, but with me it's like that. Anyway iTunes is still a great media player in spite of the flaws, still worth a try.
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2 out of 2 people found this review helpful
Version: iTunes for Windows 7.0.1
"Much better release, but not perfect."
Pros: Like I said in my past review of iTunes 7.0, new interface and better organization makes iTunes even better. Many, many bugs were fixed in a short two-week period. But...
Cons: ...Not completly bug-free. iTunes 7.01 is MUCH more stable than it's predacessor, but still has a few quirks. iTunes used to skip CONSTANTLY, and now, the only time it skips (for me, at least) is when I'm doing heavy work, such as rendering a 5000x5000 photo, or using WinZip Pro to zip 70 files that add up to 1.5 GB. Like last time, I still set iTunes priority to "Above Normal" in the task manager to prevent any skips. That works for me, and after sharing that tip with a few people, they told me it works for them too, for the most part at least. If iTunes is skipping, press Ctrl Alt Del to access the Task Manager, and locate iTunes in the process tab. Right click it and set it's priority to "Above Normal" or "High". This seems to prevent any skipping. The bad part is you need to do it every time. iTunes definitly skips much less, but it still does happen. I highly recommend this upgrade if you have the previous version of iTunes. (7.0)
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7 out of 12 people found this review helpful
Version: iTunes for Windows 7.0.1
Pros: Much improved interface, more color and options, easy-to-use, overall great improvement. Now gives details on the source list like what type of source it is, i.e, a device or a playlist. New features include viewing list of songs with album covers next to each song, or with album cover of selected song in a bad above the list with an excellent old-time jukebox style. Lots of color, expecially blue, purple, and green as Apple proves that it always knows how to make a nice sharp interface. Also, now lists the explicit symbol with the name even in your library similar to the music store. Othar changes include the color of the music note in the iTunes icon to blue and tabs for different types of media when you select your iPod as a source. Seamlessly perfect on the eyes, iTunes gets better and better.
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14 out of 14 people found this review helpful
Version: iTunes for Windows 7.0.1
"Would rate ZERO stars if possible."
Pros: It was pretty while it worked. If they could make it work flawlessly it'd be a great app.
But can they make it work? I'm starting to wonder.
Cons: Crash, crash, crash. Worked for about 1 week, then slowly started crashing bit by bit. Now I'm lucky if I even see the app's main screen....then CRASH.
Have disabled artwork and all those other things everyone says disable...and still...CRASH.
WISH I could have disabled that stupid checking for gapless playback, but they won't let you do that! I would stop it as soon as it started, but sometimes I just wasn't quick enough! I'm sure checking for gapless playback had something to do with iTunes' errors and it crippling my PC (oh yeah, by the way, when iTunes 7 crashes, it crashes the whole PC, not just the app.)
Made my iPod a paperweight, too. Thankfully I have another PC w/iTunes 6 on it, and could reload my songs from there.
However, I am unable to successfully reload 6 on the PC that had 7 on it. I can run it, but I cannot sync with it. I keep getting this dialog box about there being an iTuneshelper.exe Visual C++ runtime error...can't fix it after multiple tries of uninstall, clean reg, reboot, reinstall. Still get the same message.
What happens to people without another PC to reload their stuff. Their iPods are paperweights until Apple gets around to distributing a fix that actually FIXES the problems.
I'm used to weird errors (yep a windows person) but this one is one of the worst I've ever encountered - and it's apple software. I was really thinking how great it was to be able to rely on software being high-standard - until now.
Oh, and it's not great, either, that Videos (TV, etc.) won't play on iTunes before v7.0.
Smooth move, Apple.
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2 out of 5 people found this review helpful
Version: iTunes for Windows 7.0.1
Pros: stable,and free
Cons: songbird is better now and is only in rc form. sound is better, takes up less resources and alot less space.
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