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- Price: Free
- Operating system: Windows XP/Vista
- Date added: September 12, 2008
- Total Downloads: 8,774,192
- Downloads last week: 25,669
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- CNET editors' rating: stars
- Average user rating: stars out of 1314 votes
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CNET editors' review
Reviewed by: CNET Staff
Apple's iTunes is the 800-pound gorilla in the music and video jukebox world. The industry standard for more than five years, it has remained the trend-setter because of its connection to Apple's iPods and iPhone. This latest version sports one major new feature and several smaller ones.
In addition to the left sidebar, which was cleaned up in version 7, there's now an optional sidebar on the right. Called the Genius Bar, if you have an iTunes Store account it will offer up song and album recommendations for purchase. The Genius Bar, however, is only a derivative of the Genius Playlist, and that's the real biggie of version 8. To activate the playlist, hit the atomic symbol on the bottom right of the iTunes window while you're playing a song. The Genius algorithm will then create a playlist from the music already existing in your collection, made up of songs that it thinks have some connection to the first track. Since it's not limited solely by genre or other criteria, it can come up with some interesting choices.
Just as version 7 introduced the Cover Flow view, this update sees the introduction of a new art-based Grid view that can be used to look at your collection sorted by artist or album. Mouse over the art to reveal a play-it-now link. Other new features include a new visualization scheme called Magnetosphere, based on the iTunes plug-in of the same name, support for HD video, and the return of NBC to the iTunes Store.
For those unfamiliar with iTunes' base features, it makes video and music playback virtually identical. The iTunes Store replicates this experience, although be warned: it costs more to buy tracks that are DRM-free. Synchronization with iPods can be set to automatic or manual, and right-clicking a video clip lets you render it iPod-compatible. There are also smart playlists, CD burning, label printing, the ability to rip files in multiple formats except WMA, and network sharing. Rounding out the feature set are parental controls, integrated podcasts, and a smart-shuffle option. iTunes is sometimes clunky on Windows, and can cause significant processor slowdowns. Still, it remains a top-notch player and iTunes 8 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 8 adds genius playlists, a tile view, and HD TV-show support. Version 8.0.0.35 fixes a bug that caused blue-screen crashes on Windows Vista.
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Version 8.0.0.35 fixes a bug that caused blue-screen crashes on Windows Vista.
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User reviews of iTunes 8.0.0.35
- Average user rating: 3.1 stars out of 1314 votes
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3 out of 3 people found this review helpful
Version: iTunes 8.0.0.35
"Oh No! What have they done to you iTunes?"
Pros: * Genius would be cool, but reporting your library ruins it. It's none of Apple's business what songs I have on my PC.
Cons: * System Hog
* Glitchy - Moving a large group of songs from one playlist to another caused it to fail.
* iPod sync usually results in lock-up.
* Can't import songs that weren't purchased through iTunes.Summary: I have been a longtime lover of iTunes, but now it appears I have to switch players. I have had a massive music collection for as long as iTunes has existed. I have meticulously organized all of those files on iTunes. Now iTunes won't let me import ... read more >>
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1 out of 1 people found this review helpful
Version: iTunes 8.0.0.35
"The beauty is getting fat, old and nasty"
Pros: + my iPod NEEDS it, the most other programs have problems
+ nice overviewCons: + 87 MB??? For WHAT???
+ it is cluttering up your computer with 10 other products
+ stupid workflow, far away from other organizers
+ 100% ad-spamer!Summary: Yes, it was a great idea....it was. Instead of developing it into a lightware, it is an old heavyware. The core is just 10% of the complete program and the rest is BS that you do not need....what a waste!
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0 out of 2 people found this review helpful
Version: iTunes 8.0.0.35
Pros: OH man this is the worse i tunes soo far i mean its so hard to SYNC my new two ipod G4 nano
Cons: somehow it does not recognize it and its ugly i hate it im sticking with ZUNe
Summary: im going to return my ipod for store credit and buy my self an easier more smooth looking mp3 player THATS RIGHT ONE THAT DOES NOT FREAKING NEED TO CONVERT MP3 TO M4A's!!!!! ARGHHHH!!!! i hate APPLE
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1 out of 1 people found this review helpful
Version: iTunes 8.0.0.35
Pros: Have not seen anything
Cons: After upgrading to the newest version of itune, was unable to play all the music videos I have download over the last 3 years. Last time I buy an Ipod.
Summary: see above
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2 out of 2 people found this review helpful
Version: iTunes 8.0.0.35
Pros: The grid views and the refreshed view of new podcasts are great. The ability to set delete characteristics for each podcast is awesome too.
Cons: iTunes is still a memory hog. It seems to get slower with each new version.
Summary: Overall its the best software for working with iPods, but if you don;t have an iPod, find another way to manage your collections.
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