itunes downloads

The personal computer or PC for short has also become an integral part of your entertainment activity at home or at work. Entertainment can include music, videos, games etc. A software to manage your music and videos and organise it as per your tastes and preferences is a welcome idea. iTunes is one such software coming to your aid. Downloading and installing iTunes media player, is any layman's job. The new tools added to it give one the comfort of mixing, transfering songs to ipods, iphones, etc. The website also has the music stores making it easy to buy one's favourite music online, and since it is from iTunes, a trusted name in Music industry, there might not be any hassles related to service.

iTunes has an online digital music store, which has a large music collection (eight million and more), spread across 20 categories.

Once the iTunes music manager is dowloaded, browsing through the iTunes library is very easy. The look and feel of the software is very good, and it also lets the music files be shared on the LAN.

There is this Genius feature, which recommends certain songs for you to play, this recommendation is done by learning from the frequently played list of songs.

The updates at the site, i.e new songs, or albums added to a particular category, are communicated to you when ever you login to the site. This helps in keeping upto date about new releases of any music albums, or your favorite singer albums, etc.

Additionally it has movies for movie buffs, applications as and when needed, audiobooks, TV, etc. Also PDF files can be read with the use of iBooks1.1, which is an added advantage.

It is called DRM free. DRM stands for digital rights management. There are problems encountered with the files with DRM, for example it may not be recognised as a music file, because the extension is not mp3. The music files here also do not have mp3 extension, but the iTunes media can convert it into mp3 format. Once converted it can be tranferred to any mp3 supported device for playing. Hence it is called DRM free as it lets us to convert the music file to other version, so, one can transfer the songs to any device like a PC,ipod or iphones without encountering any compatibility issues.

There is also updation of album feature for the music buffs. If you do not have all the songs in an album, you can dowload only, the songs required to complete the album, rather than buying the whole album.

It has a unique feature of showing the playlists of celebrities. One can buy the list of their favorite celebrity as well.

iTunes can be downloaded if you have a Windows 2003/7 or even Windows XP/Vista. The basic requirement is Windows service pack 2. It can also be dowloaded if one has Macontish. To buy or browse through the album sections, one has to create an account first.