Apple to Launch iTunes for Windows

An anonymous reader writes "According to this AppleInsider.com article published earlier this morning, Apple has planned an event for next Thursday to formally introduce their iTunes player and online music store for the Windows platform."

Comments

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[CrackedButter]

About Fucking Time.

Re:Why?

[seanadams.com]

Maybe I'm missing something?

Apparently you've never wanted to play your music on any non-apple product without first expanding your files to 12x their original size, and then possibly having to re-compress them to another format.

I also imagine you've never had to deal with losing a hard disk full of all those precious songs and having to redownload and re-license them for your new machine because you can't just copy them over.

Certainly though, you've drunk Apple's cool-aid with respect to AAC having acceptable sound quality, despite strong evidence that it's only *marginally* better than MP3 at low bit rates (which ITMS files are).

But that's okay, you keep racking up those charges on your credit card, while the rest of us will continue our boycott of the RIAA until they begin distributing a good product for a fair price.

Lovely. Not that I'll use it...

[puntloos]

Crippled songs and DRM aren't my cup of tea. Obviously that isn't the only thing that iTunes does. Its main purpose as far as I could discern is to 'conveniently manage music'. As well as providing an iPod management interface.

However I hate management software. Especially USERFRIENDLY management software that 'knows what I want'. What I want is to copy music to my iPod, and listen to it. I for example didn't want my friend's itunes (mac) to sync his music database (4 songs) with my ipod (1800+ songs) i.e. delete all my songs.

If you just want to send music to your iPod, use:

ephpod (latest version 2.73), freeware, supports AAC/MP4
Sveta Portable Audio, shareware, encodes AAC/MP4 as well, $19

Plus, both now have features that do not render the music files on your ipod inaccessible(hidden dir and renamed) in normal firewire harddisk mode.

Re:iTunes and Windows

[Phroggy]

I just don't see how iTunes can integrate smoothly into my constant lockups and reboots that have come with my latest critical updates.

Don't worry, they've got it covered. I seem to get kernel panics on my Mac every couple of weeks.

This is why

[t0ny]

As usual, when Apple needs money it goes to Microsoft (and Windows in general), hat in hand, asking for some crumbs. I just remember many years ago, when Bill Gates (in a HUGE favor to Apple) invested MILLIONS into what was, at the time, a quickly sinking ship.