Apple Releases iTunes for Windows

Billy_D_Goat writes "Today at a special media event, Apple Computer released their acclaimed iTunes Music Store and stand alone player for Windows XP and 2000. They also announced a partnership to sell music on AOL and give away songs with special bottles of Pepsi. You can learn more and download it from here. "

Comments

I wonder

[boobert]

When will apple release the Windows 3.11 version?? Anybody know what the requirements will be?

Cute forced upgrade trickery

[babbage]

Well for anyone that delayed "upgrading" to iTunes 4.0.1 because they didn't want to lose the internet sharing capability, the game is over: if you want to share between the Mac & Windows versions of iTunes, you need at least 4.0.1 on the Mac & 4.1 on the Win machine to make it work.

Right now, my fiancee's WinXP machine is happily running iTunes, but it's unable to see any network shared libraries. When I come over to my Mac, I can see her shared library, but if I try to select it I get an error message: 'The shared music library "May's Music" is not compatible with this version of iTunes.'

So for anyone that was clinging on to that version but wants to integrate PCs into the iTunes party, there doesn't seem to be a choice but to upgrade iTunes to 4.0.1 or 4.1 and lose the 'net sharing capability. Bummer.

Hopefully, the tarball I'm making will continue to work alongside the updated version, if I ever decide to share between work & home... :-)