iTunes 7.6.1

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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 7.6.1 is a bug-fixing release with improved compatibility with Apple TV ver. 2.0.

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Editor's review of iTunes

Although iTunes has always been one of the best pieces of jukebox software available, the company improved upon a great thing with version 7, which has added enhanced video capabilities, ringtone editing for the iPhone and new ways to view your music library.

A cleaned-up left sidebar makes finding your music and videos a snap and the new Album and Cover-Flow view options let you flip through CDs in style. The built-in video player accommodates both your own files and ones bought at the iTunes Store. Right-clicking a clip lets you render it iPod-compatible. With the addition of full-length movies at the iTunes Store, you can now view near-DVD quality movies at a resolution of 640x480.

The experience of both purchasing and playing movies and videos is almost identical to performing the same actions with music, so seasoned users will have no trouble. Old popular features remain intact including seamless iPod integration, smart playlists, CD burning, label printing, the ability to rip files in multiple formats (except WMA), network sharing, and, of course, the enormously successful iTunes Store. The iTunes Store also offers DRM-free, higher sound quality songs, but they're more expensive than the standard $0.99, as are ringtones. Movie rentals start at $2.99, and can be purchased for $9.99.

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 7 should find a home on any media junkie's computer.

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  Itunes is the worst and most stubborn media player available

  by: coolcatmatt on 07-Mar-2008 05:35:49 PM

  Pros: Coverflow is cool if you can get it to work

  Cons: Itunes is unstable, slow and completely useless to windows users as Widows Media Player does three times better a job then Itunes anyway. When Podcasting it is prone to dropping out. Album art can only be gotten if you have an itunes account which requires visa registration or click and drag which doesn't work if the image is in Jpeg format. As an added bonus (sarcasm) itunes doubles up all your music in a second format that can only be played on ipods. And one ipod can only sync with one version of itunes. Everyone don't waste your time with this one, its not worth a second thought.

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  An easy going software

  by: rammstein101 on 16-Jun-2008 09:08:03 AM

  Pros: It's a great organizer for all your music needs!

  You can buy songs for 0.99$ and even tv shows for 2.99$ and movie rental as well for 4.99$

  It can also burn cd's and transfer songs from your ipod so you can enjoy 100% digital music anywhere you go.

  Cons: Sometimes the program gets unstable and crashes but most of the time the program works good.

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  Nice, but not for windows

  by: pietervl on 30-Mar-2008 05:09:13 AM

  Pros: It has a nice disign, just good to work with.

  Cons: Can't replace Windows Media Player or Winamp.

  Unstable, slows down your pc and useless

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  Great

  by: vcdlmp on 21-Mar-2008 07:21:04 AM

  Pros: Knows every song, with Album cover. Downloading is a blast of fune asy to use. I reccomend new version apple.com with apple updater

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  Why is the Library one long list???

  by: libbyjess on 15-May-2008 10:50:46 PM

  Pros: Anything to do with Apple is simply brilliant and iTunes is great but for one feature mentioned below.

  Cons: I hate the fact that the Library is one massive list of songs rather than songs be list in their respective albums folder. Or even better that you can group songs into folders and drag and drop as necessar into folders to organise it better. Or simply have an option Show List View or something.

  I know you can create playlists but whenever I view my Library I have thousands of songs in one giant list, it would be much better if they were grouped into play lists or albums for display purposes unless if you choose otherwise - unless I am missing something.

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