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- Price: Free
- Operating system: Windows XP/Vista/XP SP 2
- Date added: October 29, 2009
- Total Downloads: 9,795,949
- Downloads last week: 43,040
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- CNET editors' rating: stars
- Average user rating: stars out of 1311 votes
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CNET editors' review
Reviewed by: Jason Parker on September 21, 2008
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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Publisher's description
From Apple :iTunes is a free application for Mac and PC. It plays all your digital music and video. It syncs content to your iPod, iPhone, and Apple TV. And it's an entertainment superstore that stays open 24/7.
What's new in this version:
- Adds support for Apple TV software version 3.0, adds an option for a dark background for Grid View, and improves support for accessibility.
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- Average user rating: 3.1 stars out of 1311 votes
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Version: Apple iTunes 9.0.2
Pros: Absolutely None
Cons: Renames audiobook tracks as track 1 then sorts them only by track 1 not by cd number. Absolutely useless
Summary: Why you never want to buy an apple product. Several days to try and get it to work and now seems impossible. To do same job on other mp3 player- 10 minutes. Why did my sister have to buy my mum the over-rated heap of junk that is popularly known as ... read more >>
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Version: Apple iTunes 9.0.2
"Destroyed my iPod Classic 6th generation (80GB)"
Pros: Nothing at all.
Cons: Nagged to upgrade iTunes to version 9.0.2 and then told my (perfectly functioning) iPod was corrupt and had to be restored. Restored as instructed and now the forced firmware update has ruined my iPod which now holds 13GB of data before it crashes.
Summary: Don't upgrade if you have a 6th generation iPod, or if you are happy using another iPod management system.
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Version: Apple iTunes 9.0.2
"DO NOT GET THIS IF YOU HAVE AN IPOD CLASSIC!"
Pros: itunes works perfectly fine for media. genius is convenient, and its well organized. but...
Cons: there is something wrong with itunes 9 that messes up the hard drive on ipods using a hard drive instead of flash memory. the ipod will work, but you will not be able to synch it and if you try it erases your songs and you will have a brick.
Summary: ipod nano, touch, ipones, shuffles, and others such as these are unaffected, but this is still an issue that they have yet to do anything about.
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Version: Apple iTunes 9.0.2
"bad it says FREE uploads this isnt free or easy"
Pros: nothing realy most of its bad
Cons: most things
Summary: its a bad website
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Version: Apple iTunes 9.0.2
"Quite slow and not very intuitive."
Pros: The business relationship between Apple and ESPN allows me to DL radio clips from ESPN and then put them on my MP3 player.
Cons: I don't use it enough to dislike it except as shown in the bottom line summary
Summary: I do not use iTunes except when I need to DL clips from ESPN Radio. It is quite slow to start on my reasonably fast computer. An update takes FOREVER (NOT REALLY) since the DL includes Quicktime. I am considering looking for an open source program w... read more >>
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