Quick
Specification
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Size |
88.79MB |
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Platform: |
Windows Vista, Windows XP |
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License: |
Free |
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Category: |
Music
Management Software |
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Apple's iTunes is an all-in-one jukebox that lets
you play music, movies, and podcasts, and also
lets you connect to the iTunes Store to browse and
buy additional content. iTunes has become the
industry standard in media players, largely
because of its connection to iPods and the iPhone.
This latest version adds a number of new interface
enhancements, as well as some new features to make
managing your media and devices easier.
For those unfamiliar with the program, iTunes lets
you play and manage music, movies, podcasts and
more all from within an easy-to-understand
interface. You can burn and encode CDs, listen to
streaming radio, and connect to the iTunes Store
to buy music and videos, iPhone apps, ringtones,
and more. Apple's Genius feature lets you create
playlists based around any song using the Genius
algorithm to match up similar music. Perhaps most
importantly, you can connect Apple's iPhone and
iPod products to iTunes to sync music, movies,
apps, photos, and ringtones, and keep your device
firmware up to date.
iTunes 9 comes with a number of feature
enhancements mostly to improve upon the way you
interact with iTunes, your devices, and the iTunes
Store. The interface of the iTunes Store has been
cleaned up for easier navigation, redesigned with
a new layout and a new black tabbed-menu system
across the top. These new tabs replace the old
left-side navigation to choose between categories
like music, apps, movies, and podcasts. Also new
to the iTunes Store, Apple has added more content
when you purchase entire albums--what it's
referring to as "LPs." Now when you purchase a
full album or LP, you can show songs with lyrics,
explore bonus content, and check out extra content
created by the musicians themselves. All of these
features are available for movies as well,
including chapter selection, bonus content, and
more.
The way you interact with apps on the iPhone and
iPod Touch has also been improved. You can now
interact with your home screen visually right
inside the iTunes window, letting you drag apps
wherever you want them before syncing to your
device. You also now have the ability to
selectively sync specific artists or playlists, or
sync your photos by specific albums or faces.
For all the things iTunes does well, the Windows
version is still not up to par with its Mac
counterpart. iPhone and iPod syncing is much
slower, and some say the program uses up too many
system resources. Still, whether you're already
among the converted or have yet to try this
top-notch player, iTunes 9 offers a laundry list
of useful features with the benefits outweighing
the costs.
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