iTunes 10.0.1 Download

iTunes, your iPod best friend

iTunes is an integrated music player and managers. Its feature allows the users to simply manage their songs collection just by dragging and dropping. The release of the iPhone and the new iPod models contributed to the increase of iTunes users.

iTunes is the easiest way to organize, share, and also listen to the music on your computer, find new favorites, and manage your library. iTunes also works on your Windows OS. With the release of iTunes 9, Apple continues to develop and improve their music software masterpiece with an all new features that enable users to easily manage their multimedia library.

You can easily manage your iTunes library. You can also view extended information about each track, edit their tags and rate them. iTunes lets you comfortably browse through your library by the Cover Flow system or the all new implemented grid view, which displays cover artwork sorted by album, artist, genre or composer. And for the user who works in a LAN environment, you can share your music libraries in the network. If all of your family at home has iTunes, you can activate Home Sharing. This feature allows you to combine your libraries, and keep them all up to date with new purchases and added music.

iTunes ability to create playlists has also increased. The Smart Playlist tool enables you to create almost any kind of playlist based on just about any criteria you set: artist, genre, date added, star rating or even the number of times you've played each song. Another great playlist feature is called Party Shuffle, which comes very handy when some friends come over to your place. You can leave iTunes to work as a DJ and play music on its own, but if you drop by the PC at any time, you can freely add more songs to the list or rearrange them in any way.

Regarding playlists, iTunes includes an exciting new feature called Genius. Genius learns from the tracks you play on iTunes and recommends you similar songs, either from your own library or from the iTunes Store. By using Genius you can easily build thematic playlists by grouping similar songs, and it can also introduce you new bands you may not know about. The only drawback is that Genius needs to gather information about your music library and send it over to Apple in order to works; it is something that people who love their privacy won't be happy about.

You can discover new music as you enjoy your collection or import new CDs with MiniStore" right from your iTunes library. Or you could create iPod-compatible versions of your own movies using iTunes, and simultaneously stream the same song wirelessly to up to three home stereos or powered speakers using AirPort Express with AirTunes.

Ultimately, iTunes is probably the best choice to manage your music collection – and that includes Windows users.

The good side:

• Excellent music manager
• Great tool to create playlists
• Perfect synchronization with iPhone and iPod

The bad side:

• Embedded player is too basic
• Genius may raise privacy concerns

© E-FreshWare. Editorial Team.

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.