October 17, 2003
iTunes is free software
Windows users, listen up:
iTunes for Windows is free. It doesn't cost anything. It will play your existing MP3 files just fine. It will rip your CDs just fine, and you still don't have to pay a dime to Apple. It'll keep your MP3s organized, and you still don't have to pay any money to anyone.
It can also show trippy visual effects when you play your MP3s, and yeah, those effects are free, too.
In fact, the only time you'll have to pay for anything related to iTunes is if you want to spend $0.99 on a song that you can purchase from the iTunes music store. (That song, incidentally, isn't an MP3. It's encoded in a different format --AAC).
Free software, folks.
So what are you waiting for? Go try it. It's worlds beyond Winamp or Windows Media Player. You'll be pleasantly suprised.
Posted by Eric at October 17, 2003 06:23 PM...and it shares music libraries with the Mac version, too. Apple rocks. They should own the record companies in a few years. =]
Posted by: roderickm at October 18, 2003 07:43 AMYou know what would really rule? Ahh.. skip it.
Posted by: Robert at October 22, 2003 09:18 PMiTunes rocks... with the exception of its completely useless and annoying proprietry format... complete with an annoying, yet effective (to anyone without analog io) DRM scheme.
Posted by: action vance at October 24, 2003 11:41 PMNot sure what you mean by 'proprietry' format.
AAC? That's Mpeg-4, an open format.
http://www.vialicensing.com/products/mpeg4aac/standard.html
If you're gonna bitch about something, check your facts first. Bitch about how it locked up your Win2k box on reboot. Bitch about how the first version messed with your MP3 naming scheme. Bitch about the goofy non-standard UI buttons, like everyone else does.
Don't bitch about something you don't understand. Most importantly, don't bitch about something you can't even spell. You'll just sound like another troll.
Posted by: Unxmaal at October 25, 2003 12:26 AM