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Entered CNET Catalog: 09/08/2005
SKU: SERVITUNES5
Manufacturer: Apple Inc.
CNET editors' review
- Editors' Choice: No
- Reviewed on: 10/27/2005
This version's improvements are mostly in the iTunes Music Store, the successful online store that users can reach only through iTunes. The iTunes Music Store now offers video for purchase in the form of TV shows, short films, and music videos. Focusing on TV instead of full-length movies and fixing the price at an affordable $1.99 per show will likely prove as groundbreaking as the store's 99-cent-per-track music downloads were. The store also gains an important community feature with a new ratings option, and it lets you send particular songs or playlists as gifts, instead of simply sending a gift certificate. Also, the new Just For You recommendation service, still in beta, offers shoppers a useful way to discover new music.
As a music organizer and player, iTunes compares extremely well to its serious competition: Windows Media Player 10, Musicmatch, and JetAudio. It's far easier to use and offers nearly identical feature sets for basic music tasks. Plus, it and the iTunes Music Store have shown great innovation in adding audiobooks from Audible.com, podcasts, and now video. If you're using any portable player except the iPod, then iTunes probably isn't for you, since it autosyncs with only the iPod. But if you haven't bought a player yet, consider iTunes one more reason why the iPod is a solid choice.
Getting started with iTunes is a simple matter of downloading and installing the latest version; it's always free, so unlike Musicmatch, it will never badger you with pop-ups asking you to upgrade. Once the program is installed, you can start ripping your CDs and browsing the iTunes Music Store for digital downloads.The interface is clean, friendly, and intuitive, even for beginners, though the Mac interface is a bit more polished than the Windows version. The left-hand Source column is a directory to the app's major areas, including your library of music tracks, podcasts, and now video. This column also allows access to the online streaming radio stations (non-Apple content organized into genres), the iTunes Music Store, and any playlists or smart lists you create. The larger area to the right shows your files or the Music Store. While in the Library view, you can easily add and arrange columns. Choose a song and select Get Info from the File menu to edit its ID3 tags.
Providing you have an online connection--broadband recommended--you can click the green Music Store icon on the left to access the iTunes Music Store, which is organized in much the same way as the player itself. The store's major areas are listed on the left (Browse, Power Search, Podcasts, Audiobooks, and so on), while content is highlighted in the middle. To quickly find a particular artist or song, use the search box in the upper right. Changes in version 5 help you find search results faster. After a search, you'll see a gray bar running across the top of the screen; with a click, you can narrow down the type of results you see, such as music, audiobooks, or podcasts. Also, preview 30-second song samples in the store, or watch 20-second previews of the video content. The store currently contains more than 2 million music tracks from all five major labels and more than 1,000 independents; 20,000 podcasts; 11,000 audiobooks; 2,000 music videos; and 75 TV show episodes--here's hoping that last one grows quickly.
At launch, the store carried only five television shows, all from ABC/Disney: Lost, Night Stalker, Desperate Housewives, That's So Raven, and The Suite Life of Zack & Cody. Episodes are available the day after broadcast. We're betting the number of shows will grow quickly when TV execs see that this is a useful revenue stream that doesn't encourage piracy. (Confidential to Fox: Please consider this, because we're always forgetting when Arrested Development is on.) Music videos used to be free on iTunes, although unorganized and not downloadable; now they're downloadable and well organized but cost $1.99 each. Personally, we preferred it when they were free.
The store gains an important community feature in this version with the introduction of a ratings system. Now, any user with an iTunes account can rate an album or comment on the usefulness of another user's rating, similar to the system Amazon.com has offered for many years. We're thrilled that Apple added this because previously iTunes' only community feature was the ho-hum iMix, which allows you to post a song mix and rate other people's mixes--boring! Napster still beats the iTunes store on community features, though, as it offers the ability to see what other users have in their playlists.
Two other online features round out version 6's improvements: a gifting feature and a recommendation engine. You can now send a friend a particular song, album, playlist, video, or audiobook with the gifting service, instead of sending an impersonal gift certificate. If you really want a friend to hear a particular song, find the album within the iTunes Music Store and click the Gift This option from the top of the screen. You'll then get a nearly identical screen with a green background, from which you can select the song. Recipients get an e-mail notification and, in order to download the song, need to have an iTunes account--which is free but might be challenging to set up for less tech-savvy users.
The new recommendation engine is called Just For You and is still in beta. It's a useful way to discover new music since it bases recommendations on content you've already purchased. From its list, you can mark which ones you already have and which you don't like, to help it refine future suggestions. We usually liked what it suggested for us and were happy to explore the bands we hadn't heard of--but we were alarmed that Olivia Newton-John keeps coming up high in our list. C'mon, we bought only one of her songs.
The iTunes application can play MP3s, AACs, Apple Lossless, and Audible music files, as well as H.264 and MPEG-4 video files. It also lets Windows users convert unprotected WMA files ripped with other programs into unprotected AAC files so that iTunes (and the iPod, if you have one) can play them. The program offers an equally healthy set of options for ripping CDs; you can choose between MP3, AAC, and the Apple Lossless codec, which compresses files in half without losing any CD information. Additionally, Mac users can set iTunes to automatically synchronize Address Book contacts and iCal calendars with their iPod, while Windows users can sync calendar and contact info from Microsoft Outlook and Outlook Express.
iTunes shines in the area of organization. You can create a playlist and manually add songs or create a self-updating smart list that lets you specify certain parameters. The Party Shuffle feature creates an instant playlist from your music library or from any playlist, and it's a useful way to play DJ as you can add songs on the fly by right-clicking. If the shuffle list doesn't have what you want to hear, you can reorder the songs and add more tunes from your library via drag and drop. Nested playlists, new in version 5, let you organize your collection any way you want; for example, you can create genre folders that hold individual artist folders.
While the feature set nearly matches that of other music organizers, Apple has chosen to omit some features that are standard elsewhere. To print a CD cover, don't look for a cover-printing command. Instead, create a playlist of the songs on the CD and choose Print from the File menu. You'll have the option of printing a plain text cover or a mosaic of album art, but you won't have the option of designing a cover yourself.
We'd still like to see a line-in recording feature that would allow users to capture external audio sources into AAC, MP3, or any other supported format. Also, while applications such as Musicmatch Jukebox have a built-in album art retrieval service, you have to find your own with iTunes if you haven't purchased your songs from the Music Store. Likewise, iTunes can't automatically correct song tags, as Yahoo Music Unlimited can. Radio streams are decent in iTunes, though they are not as advanced as the ones offered in Napster, Musicmatch, and Rhapsody. For example, you cannot skip to the next track or purchase a song from the radio interface. Personalized radio would be a nice next step for iTunes. And while WMA music stores such as Napster, Rhapsody, and Yahoo offer all-you-can-eat subscription and to-go services, iTunes doesn't include this increasingly popular option.
Years of reliable use have convinced us that iTunes is a solid performer. It's quick, too, but that mostly depends on your hardware. Ripping a 66-minute CD took us 24 minutes flat on our 933MHz PowerPC G4 test system with a 24X (read CD) drive. Syncing an iPod is far faster, with songs whizzing by at the rate of about 1 second per track. Be careful with the current iPods, though--the Shuffle, Nano and 5G iPod sync with only USB 2.0 cables. If you have an older computer that doesn't have a USB 2.0 port, you'll get far slower syncing speeds over a USB 1.1 port. If that's the case, you'll want to invest in a USB 2.0 PCI card.Downloading purchases from the iTunes Music Store takes only about 45 seconds for a 6-minute song over a broadband connection. We're impressed that video downloads are quick, provided you have broadband. We bought a 17MB (3 minutes, 21 seconds) Pixar short and downloaded it in 1 minute, 15 seconds. The 209MB (43 minutes, 28 seconds) Night Stalker premiere took us 17 minutes, 20 seconds to download.
In terms of software stability, we've heard several reports of both Windows and Mac version of iTunes 5 and 6 as either crashing or performing oddly, though we haven't experienced any problems in our many hours with the program on both platforms.
If you're having trouble with iTunes, you'll find plenty of answers in the program's electronic help files and the support area of Apple's site. Don't miss the user forums, which are often more helpful than the official documents. If you've purchased another Apple product such as an iPod and its phone help is still valid, you can call for free iTunes-related support. If you're having trouble with a store purchase, though, getting help can be a little trickier. Apple's e-mail form is at the bottom of each topic page, and you can use it to send an e-mail to the company but only after viewing a help topic on the site. Apple promises a response within 72 hours, which is two days too slow for our tastes. In fact, one of our e-mails regarding corrupted AAC files that we purchased still hasn't been answered.User opinions
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User Rating: 
4/10
You have to be kidding me....
Pros: Sleek, easy to use, intuitive.
Cons: Accidentally deleted your music? Sucks to be you!
But...there was a catch.
It's partly my own fault for not reading the fine print, or watching all of the warnings. iTunes only allows you to download your purchases ONCE. No exceptions. My e-mail to Apple was replied to by a CSR who stated that he was 'sorry' and I would have to re-purchase the music to get it back onto my computer. It wasn't my fault that my hard drive crashed and the files were unattainable (yes, I took my hard drive to a computer repair store), but I sure am paying for it. It's also my fault that I don't have an external hard drive or CD-RW drive to back up my music. I didn't think I need to make a hardware upgrade to purchase music on iTunes. Boy was I wrong!
This is one of the most frustrating situations I have ever been in. I feel abused and betrayed...not to mention embarrassed. I spend money on a digital product which Apple can easily monitor and keep track of, yet my access to the product is limited. Why not allow unlimited downloads to one computer? I can certainly understand wanting to keep music from one iTunes account being shared between multiple computers, but I have one and only one. I spent the money, should I not have the right to download my purchases at will?
I suppose after I calm down it won't be as bad. But the more time I spend trying to get the ordeal out of my mind, the more I realize that I just basically threw $90 into the gutter.
If you download this program and intend to use it frequently to purchase media, make sure you have a way to create backups of your files. Go purchase an external hard drive or a CD-RW drive...even if it's solely to use with iTunes. Otherwise, if your hard drive is the victim of a virus like mine was, you waste money.
User Rating: 
1/10
windows problems does not let you download on windows
Pros: none everything is bad
Cons: everything cost to much, wont install on windows, cant use you own stuff, people have to pay if you gift themn a song and everything else
User Rating: 
10/10
Apple iTunes rocks!
Pros: The Best iTunes audio player and ripper, Very good sound quality.
Cons: I like every thing
User Rating: 1/10
Expensive and full of viruses, DON'T DOWNLOAD!!
Pros: downloads music onto computer only
Cons: unable to burn tracks onto CD's, virus and hacker problems
User Rating: 
8/10
I dont know whats wrong with other people but...
Pros: Works fantastically, excellent catalogue, pre-paid cards, easy to use
Cons: Three words: Digital Rights Managment (DRM)
On a slightly different note, the one thing that I absolutely hate about digital music is that when a person gets a new computer, all their music is on their old one. Now you could always burn the music to CDs and rip them on the new comp, but thats a pain. Like everything else in life digital music is a scam, but hey its sure as hell damn convenient. That might sound hypocrytical but we all know the days of purchasing CDs are number. I only wish that digital music players could transfer their songs to another device such as a comp or another player. Maybe someday, but right now the companies are to paranoid about someone stealing music.
I mainly get my music from CDs that I purchased at a regular store and I am completely against DRM. I forgot to mention eMusic, which offers DRM-free music that can be played on any player, in comparing iTunes to other services, but I have yet to try eMusic out. I will and if I like it, will use it in addition to the iTunes store and my old stand by of purchasing CDs.
Also note Im not anti-Microsoft or a Apple lover. I buy things that work (with little fustration) and look good, aesthically and financially. I find iTunes to work better than WMP11 (which Im really starting to hate, but its still in beta so I wont be set against it yet).
The best summation of my opinion is in what I said earlier, digital music is a scam, 100%.
User Rating: 4/10
There are many better music download services
Pros: f you got an iPod, this is your only way to download AAC protected files.
Cons: Requires you to put credit card on file; slow
Now, for me, I might be the only person who finds Sony's SonicStage Connect software the best thing out there; iTunes is confusing to use, requires your credit card, and like other applications of this kind just soaks up the resources like a dry sponge. I just wish that Apple and Sony and other big names stopped with this DRM crud. It's annoying, and, yeah, just annoys the heck outta me.
User Rating: 
3/10
on line works fairly well
Pros: Lots of music easy to acsess
Cons: When tou buy music they controle your rites to use it
User Rating: 
2/10
It could be alot better.
Pros: It works with ipods
Cons: The musci selection could be better, the sound system could be better, it could be expensive and it coul loose you older music files.
User Rating: 10/10
Best Audio Juke Box Ever!
Pros: Easy to install, Better Equilizer! Rip to mp3 48Mhz!
Cons: None!!!!!!!!!
User Rating: 
9/10
Almos divine
Pros: Easy to use, iPod sync (of course), highly customized smart playlists, super-fast search, iTunes music store, Ctrl+B
Cons: Ripping or burning will use up system resources and leave your computer almost useless
I'll try not to repeat what has already been said, but the file organization/renaming (when activated) is impeccable. Unlike many other "top" players that used to cause me huge headaches re-organizing my thousands of music files, iTunes is yet to fail me. The smart playlists are... well, smart! They are highly customized. To top that, just click CTRL+B and the amazingly useful browswer makes it even easier to navigate and pick what genre, artist, and/or albums you'd like to listen to.
The only complaint I have is while ripping or burning CD's iTunes seems to use all system resources. Thankfully, I do not do a lot of that and that's the beauty of an iPod (syncing does not affect performance on my computers).
9/10
User Rating: 8/10
Pretty Good, But not Perfect
Pros: Great Interface, SOOOOOOOOOOOO Much Better than WMP 10
Cons: iTunes Music Store!!
Interface 10/10
User-friendliness 10/10
Intallation Ease 10/10
iPod Sync 10/10
Music Store 10/10
BUYING MUSIC!!! 0/10
I HATE this DRM crap that provides music in protected AAC, this pathetic format means that my legal songs cannot be streamed by one of the hundreds of personal music streamers that cost Ł100 and upward. From now on, all my purchased music is to be burned and improted back on MP3, dunno if its illegal in the UK, but in the US it apparently illegal to copy music that YOU paid for onto a CDRW that YOU purchased that won't even be used coz i'll wipe it after importing it!! DRM & the Law SUX
Everything else about the player is top notch though!!
User Rating: 10/10
Best. Player. Ever.
Pros: Seemless, perfect and without question the best!
Cons: This product is perfect...no downside
User Rating: 3/10
quite lacking
Pros: okay interface, works well when it does work
Cons: only works with ipod, supports few formats
User Rating: 8/10
Good, but a few bugs
Pros: Great With iPod, Easy to Use, Cool look, Huge Music Store
Cons: Bugs with XP
User Rating: 8/10
A great alternative to Windows Media Player
Pros: Easy to burn CD's, easy to create playlists, automatically syncs to Limewire and allows access to all Limewire tracks, converts CD's to mp3 seamlessly, automatically connects to iTunes
Cons: Does not get album art, does not play any other video types aside from .mp4 podcasts, can run slow
User Rating: 9/10
great software, with or without an iPod
Pros: very clean and user friendly interface, great control over music library
Cons: non downloadable cover art, ID3 tags not perfect
the only problem is that i have to use the windows media plyer to rip my cd's to mp3's so the ID3 tags and the cover art are ok
i also wish there were more sound control on it, its not perfect, but sure is excellent
User Rating: 2/10
Can't Download ITunes
Pros: Sounds like it could be good!
Cons: I can't install it on my PC!
User Rating: 9/10
works well for my home networked music library
Pros: i can finally share my mp3 library on my home network!
Cons: wish it could auto start it with windows. also share the library AND playlists
wish list for future ver:
1. allow a setting for load on widows startup so that the other computers on my home net will always be able to see the library.
2. allow sharing entire library AND playlist. not sure why you're not able to do that. as it is you can only do one or the other.
not sure why radio songs keep poping up in my library. i've deleted them & they keep poping up. not sure if they will try to play if i'm playing my library in random mode. hope not.
not sure why people are having trouble installing it. perhaps if they are running old systems or don't know how to work their security software.
User Rating: 2/10
Awful... just something you dont want to have to use
Pros: None that i can think of... basically it performs all the functions your average media player performs
Cons: It is the only reason why I am not buying an Ipod
User Rating: 1/10
Worst online music store and I hate iPods!
Pros: There is nothing I like about it!
Cons: EVERYTHING!
User Rating: 
6/10
Typical apple work
Pros: Easy to use , good built-in vis , good equalizer , integrated with music store
Cons: not skinnable , not customizeable , only syncs with iPod
User Rating: 1/10
Newest Version is Annoying
Pros: same old features
Cons: silly new ones
User Rating: 8/10
It's Pretty Good, But I Prefer WMP
Pros: Only Official Way of Putting Music on the iPod, Fairly Easy to Use, Nice Interface
Cons: Can't Play by Artist Very Easily, iTunes Songs are Expensive, Obsolete Interface
User Rating: 9/10
Nice and easy
Pros: Easy syncing with my iPod, Smart Playlist,
Cons: Can't alway access the music store
I love it's seamless syncing with my nano. It does everything for me. Organizing playlist is beyond simple. Music I buy is automatically in my library and if I choose to get my music from another source I can easliy place it with the rest of my music in my itunes folder. iTunes converts all my music into aac format for me or mp3 if I choose. Basically anything you want to do iTunes makes it easy. It either does it for you or makes it so painless that it can even be considered fun.
Compared to windows media player iTunes is a million times better. Organizing things on WMP is a chore. Especially if you have a large amount of music. iTunes is just more user friendly.
The only major problem is I can't always access the music store. It happen every so often. Maybe 5 times since I downloaded it. It's just slightly annoying.
Overall Itunes is great. I recomend it over any other software. It doesn't get any easier than this
User Rating: 1/10
Nightmare Software
Pros: Non, Not One, A piece of paper is better
Cons: Crashes, Crappy Interface, Feature Free, Doesn't hold a candle to WMP or MusicMatch
CNET needs to have its head examined for giving this software an 8. The reviewer obviously never bothered to try any features.
If you own an iPod you're stuck with this garbage. I'm now forced to use WMP to rip CD's and organize my music and then have to pray that a sync will be successful to get my wife's iPod loaded.
I'll be sticking to WMP and Dell MP3 players. Apple always has been over priced, over rated, under powered, and a total joke to serious computing. They're nothing beyond marketing glitz and I'm unfortunately stuck in this hell to satisfy a spouses ?keep up with the Jones? habit.
User Rating: 9/10
iTunes 6.0 works well enough for me!
Pros: Video, easy organization, smart playlists
Cons: Can't simply upload artist onto iPod w/o creating a playlist
User Rating: 9/10
Easy, free and simple to use!!
Pros: looks good, free, rips CD's, easy to make playlists to burn to CD
Cons: its never happened to me, but some people have reported it not working in windows
User Rating: 3/10
search function needs more work
Pros: music store
Cons: can't find my songs the way I want it to
my problem:
1. my mp3's here: /jay chow/(Chinese name).mp3
2. type "jay" in search box.
3. the songs do not show up. (it only searches ID3, which is also in Chinese)
When I do the same in WinAMP, the songs show up.
I can't even find my music...for this reason alone, I won't use iTunes.
User Rating: 6/10
nothing really new
Pros: video downloads, ipod compatable
Cons: small video selection, videos seem a little overpriced at $1.99 per episode
User Rating: 9/10
Best playlists, great interface, very stable!
Pros: Smart playlists, baby
Cons: Can't even find any cd sleeve printing function (though I hear it's there)
User Rating: 9/10
It works WELL
Pros: Everything works the way it is supposed to and it syncs with my iPod nicely
Cons: They don't have an albums and an artist view of the 'Library'. You have to sort the list by album or artist
User Rating: 9/10
Great... on a Mac
Pros: Mpeg-4 (AAC), songs are OWNED not Rented, great sound
Cons: video can't be 'burned' to DVD (for Legal reasons)
User Rating: 3/10
How could CNET possibly give it EC??
Pros: Nice interface, free
Cons: slow, hogs memory like hell, limited codec support
User Rating: 3/10
i dont understand itunes??? from a mac user!
Pros: its easy, nice interface, user friendly
Cons: it auto syncs with ipod, why do i have to use it?
why cant it just show up as another harddrive on my desktop and let me drag and drop the files over to it?? wouldn't that be easier? then i could sort and rename them on the IPOD itself without the "itunes" interface? sounds good to me. Next up winamp pro still has them beat with the internet tv stations/music stations.
Lets say i put "blah" on the ipod, then i have the same band named "bLaH" and i upload that to the ipod, then i delete the folders on my HD. Now i have no way to rename "bLaH" so it will go under one artist name of "blah" do you all see? so your stuck with 5 different spellings for the same band
User Rating: 9/10
A great free device for all ages to store and purchase legal music
Pros: Cheap music and videos, excellent burning features, great selection, easy and smart playlists
Cons: Subscription service, cannot burn video, some iPod difficulty
User Rating: 10/10
Flawless. (Mac Version)
Pros: Full-featured.
Cons: Doesn't clean my apartment.
Impressive range of features added (customer reviews, gifting, videos, podcasts, etc.) made more impressive by the simple fact that it doesn't yet feel like bloat-ware.
User Rating: 9/10
Organized is the way for me!
Pros: Organized, easy, all around good product
Cons: video can only be uploaded in h.264 format
User Rating: 8/10
It is the one end-user media software bundle you may ever need
Pros: Its Music Library, its organization.
Cons: Bugs in the music store, especially the videos. Also, the options on destination folder for ripped music are restrictive, and iTunes makes folders on its own when you may want it in the main folder.
User Rating: 9/10
Perfect! Installed w/o a hitch and works like a dream!
Pros: Ease of use, design is nice.
Cons: Only works best with iPods.
User Rating: 9/10
Absolutely Amazing!!
Pros: iTunes 6 is amazing. The best feature IN THE WORLD is the gifting. Gotta admit it. Its amazing. They really did a good job on this one.
Cons: A bit slow on Opening Up.
User Rating: 1/10
greed is rotting the apple to the core
Pros: better skin, more refined search methods
Cons: you now have to PAY to watch videos! Boooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!!
User Rating: 9/10
iTunes 6 is the best so far
Pros: Easy to use; video store is a nice addition
Cons: No line-in recording
User Rating: 2/10
do not download it!
Pros: video is about it
Cons: will screw up 4th gen ipods
User Rating: 9/10
Worked for me...with XP
Pros: Same nice format, easy to use
Cons: Haven't found any yet
I will sync it with my mini tonight to load some new songs and podcasts. If something goes wrong, I will post again.
User Rating: 3/10
i-tunes has and will awlayz be the poorest media player
Pros: Nothing at all
Cons: Anything that has to do with i-tunes
Just get a Sony Mp3 player and Sonic Stage
Get Napster,if anyone says i-tunes is ez to use there lying
User Rating: 9/10
Small Problem at first but it is great now
Pros: Music Video and TV show downloads, gifting,
Cons: wish it was quicker when starting up
User Rating: 8/10
Price GREAT!; Download speed a bit of a problem...
Pros: Download prices; accessibility,
Cons: Download speed, TV show selection too small...
Thanks Apple!
User Rating: 6/10
More like 5.5
Pros: Video Support
Cons: Not much new stuff
User Rating: 9/10
The BEST itunes ever.
Pros: EASY to find any song.
Cons: Dosent have all the music videos yet.
User Rating: 2/10
Can't open in Windows
Pros: Don't know yet
Cons: Can't use it
User Rating: 3/10
Wait for fixes.
Pros: It is still a good music management program
Cons: Can't import files and forlders from hard dirve.Videos do not play well.
User Rating: 
7/10
Still Great for Music - Disappointing Video addition
Pros: Music the same
Cons: NO Divx, H.264/MP4 ONLY
User Rating: 9/10
Almost perfect - Just needs subscription service.
Pros: Best interface, best selection, easy to use -
Cons: No subscription service
User Rating: 9/10
works great on Mac
Pros: ease of use
Cons: getting too many options on itunes.
The mac OS X is light years ahead of Longhorn and its not even out yet....if ever.....lek
User Rating: 3/10
Problem with install
Pros: don't know, won't run
Cons: one problem, won't run
User Rating: 10/10
Excellent in every way...
Pros: Simplicity, Design. Best App.
Cons: None. Is all good.
User Rating: 9/10
Install woked fine...nice upgrades to Itunes
Pros: Works Great !
Cons: None yet that I can see
User Rating: 9/10
Best Music App Around
Pros: Simple, Good Features
Cons: None, Im running it on a mac
User Rating: 10/10
Amazing player.
Pros: New video capabilities, store, organizing.
Cons: None, none, none!
User Rating: 9/10
Don't forget
Pros: It's free, it's still the best jukebox available for Mac or Windows
Cons: Unable to disable Music Store
Seriously - it does what it says on the tin. I'm not going to say that the programmers are 100% perfect however most who have had problems are those who run a machine with breached security (in one form or other), hacked programs or dubious uninstalls - you know the people who THINK they are PC literate but in reality that doesn't stop them from having a fiddle - they know best after all. I've worked in IT for over 20 years and 9 times out of 10, non-hardware problems occur for the reasons above i.e. human error and intervention.
User Rating: 9/10
iTunes 6 is the best thus far
Pros: Videos!....plus all the other great features iTunes has to offer
Cons: Decent video library to start off with, but wish it was bigger
My only beef is that I wish the video store had a larger collection to choose from, but its k, hey its just starting out, it should bigger with time. That, and I wish the videos were at a lil higher resolution, but what do u expect, these videos are meant to be downloaded onto the i-pods coming out. Still one is able to view the videos @ full screen without losing too much resolution. Overall though, I love iTunes 6.
User Rating: 9/10
iTunes is still the best music software out there
Pros: Ease of use, intelligent design, classy interface
Cons: nothing really
User Rating: 2/10
iTunes 5.0 is half baked!
Pros: iTunes 4.9 was good. Stick with that.
Cons: Couldn't burn a CD through iTunes after installing.
User Rating: 3/10
Windows Installation Problems
Pros: itunes is great, what more can I say
Cons: Version 5.0 not ready for Windows users
User Rating: 7/10
Pretty Good, But One Podcast Issue.
Pros: Sleek design; Easy to navigate; Nice radio; High Quality
Cons: Some features are misleading/malfuntioning; Still doesn't sync other "mp3 players"; Bad grammar usage :-)
However, I did run into a few problems on my iTunes.
I like Podcasts, in fact, they're great for news/entertainment-on-the-go. But after I selected the "keep: the most recent" option in the Podcast options pane, iTunes still seems to keep ALL of them, in turn cluttering the "Library" with every Podcast downloaded! To retectify, I uncheck all the Podcasts in my "Library" one by one. :-/ Lame.My last pet peeve; "Itunes" Capitalizes Every Word In Song Titles (And Probably Elsewhere), but it's just a minor annoyance.
Overall, I still love my "Itunes"
User Rating: 2/10
Broken upgrade (PC version, MAC seems OK)
Pros: Great if you use Microsoft Outlook/Express and don't burn CDs
Cons: Useless "upgrade" Don't try unless you have 4.9 to fall back to
For some reason, reviews of older versions are carried forward to newer ones. The problems with 5.0 are gone, and 6.0 works fine on both my PCs and my Macs.
Now if only I could change my rating. I'd now call it "8".
For some reason, reviews of older versions are carried forward to newer ones. The problems with 5.0 are gone, and 6.0 works fine on both my PCs and my Macs.
Now if only I could change my rating. I'd now call it "8".
User Rating: 1/10
How did this pass QA?
Pros: none...can't get it installed along with hundreds
Cons: Installation for Windows very, very, painful
Installation process riddled with problems, errors, and fatal crashes. Deletes file, podcast subscriptions etc...
Apples support directs you to Installshield and microsoft to solve "your" problem that they induced. Stick with 4.9 until they fix the install process
User Rating: 8/10
IT was about time
Pros: Parental Controls
Cons: Nothing Really
User Rating: 8/10
it's good, but.... it erase all my songs
Pros: new design all
Cons: itunes is the best nothing is bad
User Rating: 9/10
update from itunes 4.9
Pros: new miniplayer interface
Cons: requires podcast files to be in library
User Rating: 8/10
Still the very best way to manage your music
Pros: Great design, a lot of great features.
Cons: A little messy I think..
I like the way Apple designed this program, and when I am going to bay an iPod (Very soon), I think I will be very happy with the easy way to transfer music.
A couple of my friends got the program, and they also think that it is a little messy, but nothing is perfect!
Hope you likeŽd my little review here
User Rating: 9/10
the best player on the market
Pros: they have made a lot of improvements over 4.9 like the interface and every thing but there is still something missing
Cons: I dont know but it still seems that they didnt include somthing
User Rating: 9/10
Still the best to manage your music.
Pros: Improved interface is a welcome change, as well as the ability to group playlists into folders. The search function is also nicely improved and helps sort between different types of media.
Cons: I would like to see Apple partner with other companies to include their media formats in the software, if not native, than usuable by third party plugins.
