iTunes

JUL
15
2005

Apple iTunes

Apple’s iTunes began as an MP3 player for Mac OS X. It has grown into the best music playing software in existence. Available for Windows as well as the Mac, iTunes is the portal to the iTunes Music Store, the conduit for the iPod (including photos, which is kinda weird), a podcasting client, and more.

iTunes has a bunch of top features, including:

  • Smart playlists. It keeps a library of music files as a database, and, since it’s a database, you can do cool searches with it, and leverage those queries as playlists.
  • Support for album cover art. Just drag and drop from Amazon.
  • Support for internet radio and podcasts
  • The iTunes Music Store. DRM’d music at $0.99 per song. (yes, all DRM is bad, but, if it could be reasonable, this is a pretty good attempt).
  • Play music from other iTunes users’ playlists over the local network (it used to be over the Internet, but Apple wised up to that very quickly).
  • Good tagging, including mass-tagging of multiple files
  • etc., etc., etc.
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