Reviews of Apple iTunes for Windows

1. 
   fudgeworth

   Reviewing 10.5.3.3 (Jan 28, 2012)

   Like being raped, but if you own an Apple product, well let's just say you were asking for it.
2. 
   Zootopia3001

   Reviewing 10.5.3.3 (Jan 20, 2012)

   How many service and other startup entries does this software need? Installs third-party Bonjour software that when uninstalled leaves a winsock entry behind. If you just willy-nilly delete it, it leaves your PC virtually unusable.
3. 
   betabettabest

   Reviewing 10.5.3.3 (Jan 20, 2012)

   I'll go against the grain here and speak up for iTunes. I'm the last person in the world to defend Apple; don't own a single product. I think they produce quality gadgets, but I dislike their business model and I despise their 'cult'. The only reason I EVER broke down and installed iTunes was that I wanted some stray Beatles tunes I'd never owned on CD, and couldn't get them through Amazon downloads.
   
   To my pleasant surprise, I have never had any trouble with iTunes performance on either of my PCs. I don't find it slow, none of the background services intrudes in any way, and none of my other media players or computer media functions show any adverse effect.
   
   But the biggest surprise is that iTunes downloads AND rips generally SOUND BETTER than the alternatives. Especially on classical music. Perhaps on lower-end audio it makes no difference, but with Xonar sound cards and B&W speakers, an iTunes download will (usually, not always) sound better than its Amazon counterpart, and ripped symphonic CDs simply have a more realistic tone using iTunes/AAC as opposed to Exact Audio Copy & Ogg. As a long-time OGG snob, I found this hard to believe, but careful comparisons on hundreds of songs bears it out.
   
   I haven't used iTunes for much more than buying music and ripping CDs, so I won't speak to its other functions. I don't use it as my main player, I keep its library separate from my Win7 libraries, and I generally move my purchases and rips out of Itunes and into my Win7 libraries so as to use WMP or Winamp as my main players -- they play more formats. And I certainly have a few issues with the iTunes music store--but at least they give you 90 second excerpts, whereas Amazon still sticks with 30 seconds.
   
   But I can't find anything about iTunes to truly find fault with, and the music files it creates sound better, no matter which player you prefer for actually listening to them.
4. 
   egg83

   Reviewing 10.5.3.3 (Jan 20, 2012)

   I would really want to like this software, but I have had some very bad experiences with uninstalling this software. It literally ruined my Vista installation with all the stuff that it installs on to your computer. Apple, seriously, this program is hijackware. I tried to do a clean uninstall, and it even hijacked my cd drivers on the hardware level!! And was not able to cleanly uninstall to boot! Will NEVER and I repeat NEVER install this horrible software on my computer unless Apple can make an uninstaller that will remove all the secondary programs that Itunes deems important from my computer. For this very reason, I have an Android phone, because of how Apple implements their software. If this seems like a rant, then, well, it is, for a good reason. 1 Star. Wish I could vote lower.....
5. 
   johnusa

   Reviewing 10.5.3.3 (Jan 19, 2012)

   Only iSh!t hardware users need this horrible and troublesome software.
   Luckily all the rest of us don't need it.

Discuss Apple iTunes for Windows

1. Jul 21, 2011 - 8:26 AM
   BK553

   Getting rid of this and quicktime was one of the best days my computer ever had. bye bye Apple
2. Nov 14, 2010 - 6:27 PM
   psycros

   Winamp has become a little more bloated and buggy over the years but its still superior to iTunes in pretty much every respect. Unless you actually own Apple hardware you have no use for this program, at all. Correction: unless you just want it for the iTunes Store, you really have NO need for iTunes. Winamp will fully support your iPod and it has plugins, skins and many other ways to customize the experience and will link directly to a number of music stores.
3. Apr 7, 2009 - 8:51 AM
   Reverb

   For those of you complaining of the bloat of Itunes and slow startup you obviously have never experienced Zune 3.0. Itunes runs like a speedy DOS app compared to that Monster!!!! I have a friend that has a Zune and the device itself is nice the software is garbage and sadly there are no 3rd party apps like sharepod that can be used with it. I personally won't buy any media player that requires an app to transfer media to it. I have 2 that you merely plug in and use explorer or whatever file manager you choose to transfer media to/from it.