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Apple Releases iTunes Windows and More

why do you hate me so apple?

i just tried and failed at installing it.

just cuz i'm too poor to buy my own computer, i'm stuck with a WIN98SE PC- 733 p3 256kram.

to those who say it told you so... i had to try it. it was my last hope of having anything apple (until i get to college)
 
There goes 60% of the market

As apple said. They have aprox 30% of the digital audio market. By not supporting WMA there goes god know how many potential customers in that 60%. This may have been the path of least resistance for Apple but may very well come back to bite them in the long run. Never mind the fact that there are still a heck of a lot of users still on 9x. I should have guess this since they did the same for .Mac access utils for Windows. (e.g. XP only.) :mad:
 
Bought my first song

w00t.

I just bought my first song (Dido - White Flag) from iTunes. That was way too easy.

This could become addicting.

EDIT: The song artwork that shows up with the music you buy, is a very nice touch Apple
 
Have to wait

... till I get home. My work provided Win2k laptop is locked down to where I don't have the rights to install it. (Damn IT support people!)

I did install it on my work G4 thought but our corporate firewall proxies don't allow ITMS traffic to pass through! (Damn network support people!)

:mad:
 
Originally posted by jettredmont
You need to restart Windows. Your fonts have gotten screwed up. It's not normal to see bolded fonts in the menus.

Usually this is fixed with a restart; sometimes it requires a reinstall of Windows. Not good thing to crop up after an iTunes install ...
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Actually I make my menu fonts bold on purpose. I don't like using the thin standard fonts for my menu items... I guess I'm just too used to the nice thick system fonts on the Mac.
 
Re: Re: Re: MP3 Players???

Originally posted by Mineral
Well, good luck then, Apple..:rolleyes:
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Do you really think Apple would go through the trouble of writing and distributing a FREE program so people could go out and buy another company's Portable Music player?

iTunes for Windows if for selling more iPods. That's the only reason Apple wrote the program.
 
Re: PC and Mac via iPod

Originally posted by steve-not-jobs
So I have a Mac at home with 10Gb of tunes, synced up with my 3rd gen iPod. At work I have a pc with Firewire cable and a just downloaded iTunes for Windoze.
What I can't see is a way I can transfer the tunes from my iPod to pc and keep both versions of iTunes in sync via the iPod.
Any ideas?
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Try downloading EphPod for Windows. It allows you to copy all of your music library off of your iPod to your Windows PC. Download it at http://www.ephpod.com
 
Um, AAC is an open standard, and WMA is not. That's why it's not supported, and why others should support AAC.

I have noticed a huge speed increase on iTunes 4.1 from 4.01. 5 bounces to open, now 1 (from a fresh boot), and the interface is quicker.

I also installed iTunesFW on a Virtual PC WinXP install. It worked fine... my Mac iTunes library showed up automatically in the Virtual PC iTunes window. So... I played an MP3 through an emulator by streaming through a virtual TCP/IP connection. Weird. I guess that's the only way one could stream music without a network connection :)
 
from europe

I live in europe.

can someone please send me gift certificate...

to beardedprophet@hotmail.com

I would love to buy my first songs from the itms from here from europe.

cheers

$10, I will pay it back by paypal...

edit:

just bought my first songs on itms from switzerland!!! thanks to laurent
 
I just loaded iTunes on Two PC's at work. One has XP and the other has Win. 2000.
The XP machine ran iTunes just fine, It was surreal seeing the apple logo on a windows machine! So, I moved on to the 2000 box. Loaded tunes and the thing won't play the CD's. The Data base receives the tack names, and tunes see's the tracks. But, the speaker icon just moves down the list never playing the track. Strange!!
 
WMA to MP3 Converters

Originally posted by snahabed
Windows users with 1000's of songs ALREADY ripped to WMA to abandon MusicMatch, WMP, and RealOne, to use iTunes.
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There are hundreds of WMA to MP3 conveters out there... Even Batch converters. try "Google":confused:
 
My room-mate tried out iTunes on his Windose PC, and it didn´t take long before he actually made it his DEFAULT PLAYER! Now he talks about un-installing Winamp. (!!) He also sais it´s the greatest player he´s tried, far better than win-amp. The only thing he doesn´t like is the fact that all his pirated songs without correct track-information is sorted wrongly.. well, noone can have everything..

The Rendezvous-feature works incredibly well btw. All my songs popped up on his computer, and all his on mine. And how elegant, right there with the play-lists.. I´m impressed!
 
Syncing Windows and Mac iPods

The site highly implies that any iPod can sync to both Mac and Windows with the new iTunes. Before today, it was very annoying and difficult to sync a Mac iPod to a PC or vice-versa. I'm curious... can I take my non-dockable Mac iPod and sync it to my office Windows machine now?
 
McDonalds----------BurgerKing

Coke------------------------Pepsi

Windows-------------------Apple

Makes sence to me
 
Originally posted by vanmonkey
McDonalds----------BurgerKing

Coke------------------------Pepsi

Windows-------------------Apple

Makes sence to me
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Disney----------------------Pixar

;) just to complete the list!
Sorry for off-topic :eek:
 
Woopee!

This has definately eaded my windblows suffering immensely!

E-coli did you install as an admin? Hope your ok on your win system now.

Got mine up and running on my dull. This is a god--send Thank you Steve!!!

This just makes me want a PowerMac that much more. Santa better be good to me!

I watched the interview on CNN Headline news with Steve and I was a little pissed off because regarding the case of some dude and Micheal Dell's email wanting shares of some other company.....the CNN interviewer asks Mr. Jobs if he new him or did business with this clown, trying to bait Mr. Jobs into an investigation. Steve cleared that up real quick though.

I'm ecstatic that Apples profits are up as well as sales of PowerMacs, PowerBooks, and iMacs.

10 months is what I give myself from todays date to own a Mac and disown this windows machine!!!!

A Good weeks for Apple!:cool:
 
Originally posted by vanmonkey
McDonalds----------BurgerKing

Coke------------------------Pepsi

Windows-------------------Apple

Makes sence to me
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Pepsi?... The brand that has to change its image every 4 months to attract drinkers? And it's hardly the underdog vs. Coke that Apple is with respect to wintels. I think Apple may have gone with Pepsi precisely because they advertise so damn much. And besides, the "Apple" of the burger world would be "Wendy's". Mmm.. :D
 
iTunes flaked out on my friend's PC

So, who's installed iTunes on a PC? Let's have some reports on how well it works!

I convinced my die-hard PC using friend to download iTunes and give it a try, and he did. He has 4,900 mp3's and had them all sorted in folders by genre. He didn't use playlists, but rather, picked out the songs based on genre. For some reason, when he imported the songs into iTunes, it created folders for all the songs, and messed up his genre folders completely. Needless to say, he is pretty upset about it, as that was a lot of work to get them all arranged that way. It will be nearly impossible to find the time to fix all of that. This makes me, as well as Apple look bad. On the bright side, he thinks he has no other choice but to use iTunes with its playlists from now on, but I still feel terrible about it. Has anyone else seen something strange like this?
 
I just downloaded iTunes 4 and installed it on my P4 1.9GHz WinXP laptop and I think it's great. It uses even less CPU time than some other players (Winamp 3 aprox. 13-15% , JetAudio 8% , iTunes 5%). It consumes from 11 MB to 25 MB according to TaskManager and after slow 1st start it loads in about 3 secs.

But there are some features that I would like to see in it :

- support for WMA and RealAudio formats. Ok let's not start again with that thing whether Apple should support 'other' music formats , but other players that I've tried played everything that I throwed at them , so this is definitely a minus for Apple. About 10-15% of my music collection is ripped in WMA format and i have no intention in doing that again.

- iTunes has very very extensive playlist management. You can manage songs in playlists by bpm, bitrate, kind, track number, length of artists' d*** but you can't make a playlist which will contain songs from a specified dir and dynamically refresh itself whenever a new file is added. I've looked for something like that and I couldn't find it. Please correct me if I'm wrong! It is a big deal to me as I have few large dirs full of mp3s and sometimes I add a file in it, sometimes my sister , so it is very hard to keep track what is in the playlist and what isn't.

- some MP3 streaming radiostations won't work. Particularly those which use .pls files to start streaming. How could I overcome that?
BTW: is there a 3rd party RealAudio plugin for Mac iTunes?

- I can not add my own favourite radiostations in Radio playlist

- visualizations always start with a Apple logo. It becomes iritating after sometime

- resizing a iTunes window really sucks . Maximizing a window is impossible but after you close the fullscreen visualizer iTunes becomes maximized and you can not restore the previous window position!? Also, doubleclicking on the titlebar widens the window which makes no sense at all.

Other than that iTunes is excellent music player but I am looking forward to v4.2 ...
 
Artwork :)

I just found out that I can add artwork to my own songs. This is so sweet. Anyone know if I can get the artwork off the iTunes Music Store or am I going to have to keep getting the artwork off amazon?
 
Support wma and I WILL buy an iPod

Well I am not too impressed with iTunes as a music player, but I think when paired with an iPod I would see the beauty of it. I do not understand why they wouldn't play wma files, at least on iTunes. If the iPod ever has a firmware upgrade that supports wma files, I would buy it. All of my songs are ripped in this way.

I wish iTunes showed all songs by artist, then by album, like Windows Media Player. I would have to say I am disapointed, I like Windows Media Player better. I hope new versions have a little more functionality. I know Macs have always been simplistic, but us Windows users can handle a few more options!
 
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