iTunes lets you create your own personal digital music library, allowing you to manage and play your music collection with drag-and-drop simplicity. iTunes, the software part of the equation that lets you pack 7,500 songs in your pocket, automatically synchronizes with the sensational new iPod at high speeds over FireWire. iTunes gives you the ability to generate dynamic Smart Playlists that reflect your preferences and listening habits. With iTunes it’s easy to create CDs that play back on in your car, your home stereo, Macs and on Windows-based PCs. iTunes 4 adds the ability to share music among your Macs, play and encode AAC files, and view album art.
- ITunes no longer ignores your "Remember password for purchases" setting
- Addresses problems with syncing some Smart Playlists and Podcasts with iPod
- Resolves a problem recognizing when iPod is connected
- Addresses issues that affect stability and performance
- An improved look and feel, including a new Column Browser for easily browsing your artists or albums, movies, TV shows, and more
- ITunes Store has a brand new look, with improved navigation for quick and easy exploration
Reviewing 9.0.3 (Feb 3, 2010)
Download 93MB just to play a few audio format?! I've not used iTune in Mac OS but for windows it's junk! slow interface, not customizable enough, heavy, run a lot of things in background, support very few audio and video formats and...
if you are a windows user (especially Win7) stick to Windows media player with Win7Codec Pack installed. if you don't like it, use Winamp! latest winamp play every audio and video formats and also sync your media to your iPod and other devices, also using winamp you edit and covert media files, shop music online from trusted sources.
Reviewing 9.0.3 (Feb 2, 2010)
Anybody remember "realplayer" well, iTunes has left it far behind......iTunes is the numero uno of the crappies of the crappy players around...
Reviewing 9.0.3 (Feb 2, 2010)
You would think they would improve it with new versions, but it's as horrible as ever if not worse. Could they possibly install and more crap along with it? How many services does this stupid thing need, but that's just it. Half the garbage it installs is not needed by most people. They could at least give us a choice, but it would probably work like the Apple Updater. Even if you choose not to install it they install it anyway. This program is trash.
Reviewing 9.0.3 (Feb 2, 2010)
wish I could rate this less than 1
Huge bloaty pile of slow terrible crap with just 1 positive feature.
ON windows it installs a whole bunch of services that 99% of the time do nothing but eat system resources waiting for me to plug in my ipod.
Bonjour service --get it off my system until I NEED it.
it's massive (90mb to download)
I have my music on an external drive, I want to have my itunes library there too, but NO, not allowed.. iTunes put it where it decides it will go . I have no say in it.
It is slow... and I mean sloooooooow. to start, slow to use. I've used it on XP, vista and windows 7 and it's still the least responsive application I've ever used. Grinds to a halt when I plug my ipod in - then I click an item and sometimes wait ten seconds for it to respond.
Quicktime----grrrrrr hate it but have no choice about installing it.
sound wise... well it's ok.. not stunning, but not awful
the ONLY thing I like about it is Genuis.. Genius actually creates good playlists and seems to work well, but why does it take over 10 minutes to "send my genius results to itunes" What on earth is apple collecting that it takes 10 minutes to upload?
There is a reason apple lock down their ipods now.. because any sane person would never choose iTunes if they had any choice about it.
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.