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- Price: Free
- Operating system: Windows XP/Vista
- Date added: December 03, 2008
- Total Downloads: 9,128,285
- Downloads last week: 26,763
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- CNET editors' rating: stars
- Average user rating: stars out of 1313 votes
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CNET editors' review
Reviewed by: Jason Parker on September 21, 2008
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 8.0.2 is a bug-fixing release.
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User reviews of iTunes 8.0.2.20
- Average user rating: 3.1 stars out of 1313 votes
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Version: iTunes 8.0.2.20
Pros: -fast and easy
-can do music and videos
-don't have to walk out and buy the whole disc can buy how ever many songs from one programCons: Needs to be able to movie discs on it
Summary: This is a great thing to have for anyone who loves music and videos it works great. Plus you can even put your old discs on it to! Recommended!
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Version: iTunes 8.0.2.20
"Defeatured in a Major way - no more MP3"
Pros: Was a useful tool for iPod and non iPod users to move audio files among players and software, convert, and tag. I use many programs for audio and ironically many MP3 programs are designed to work with iTunes, it's nice to have integration.
Cons: Removal to convert CDs to MP3 and burn CDs. I've downloaded the latest onto 2 fresh installed windows machines. Key functionality was removed. I assume this is to force consumers into switching formats to Apple file systems and only buy iPods
Summary: Apple seems to have decided that only iPOD users exist, so as an iPOD user you should not be using software that does not support AAC. Unfortunately there are millions of DJs and children with other $20 MP3 players, and gaming systems like PSPs t... read more >>
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Version: iTunes 8.0.2.20
"If iPhone had this poor an interface, it wouldn' sell.."
Pros: Look is nice. Pity that the functionality doesn't match.
Cons: Functionality is not intuitive for so many features. Where is the ease of use? I expect more from apple.
Summary: I am new to iTunes. I got an iPhone a month ago.
Perhaps the functionality needs to remain the same to keep the old users happy. Well they should offer a 'Classic' interface then.
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Version: iTunes 8.0.2.20
Pros: List's everything the way you want it
Cons: Slow loading but don't know if it's a problem I've listed below.
Summary: Every time I open I-Tunes a warning box pop's up telling me certain files are missing please download I-Tunes again. I have 3 times and still can't record any of my tunes. In the file menus there is no option to 'send to' so I can't send a file to m... read more >>
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Version: iTunes 8.0.2.20
"Siezed Iphone, crashed everything, lost it all, SLOW"
Pros: not sure what this does better than musicbox, etc.... no real pro's
Cons: apparently unstable, spent a day restoring everything, and still no luck.
The old version is so slow, it seems as if its seized if you have more than about 3GB of music installed.Summary: stick with an older version
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