iTunes for Windows

Posted on October 17, 2003 @ 13:52 in General

The news was hard to miss, going through the news this morning, but I wasn't exactly planning on downloading Apple's iTunes for Windows until I read Martin's praise for it. Could it really be that good I wondered. The short answer is: yes!

Even without the iTunes Music Store this is the absolute best music player ever. It does everything just right, starting with the small details. If you switch between views, say between browsing the Music Store and the Library view of all your songs, iTunes actually remembers where you're at in each view. If you return to the Music store after looking up which song is actually playing, you're not send back to the home page, but you're still at the exact point you left. And in the preferences you can set iTunes to play back each tune with about the same volume, which means you won't have to reach for the volume every time a new song comes on. In general, the interface is so natural that whatever you expect to find in a certain place will actually be there. Point in case: the extended song info contains just about everything you could ever want to know/change about a song. Even changing genre or album information for a selection of songs is brilliantly organized, predicting exactly what I would want to do.

iTunes however presented me with some worrying statistics. It would seem that I have 13GB of music files, spread out over 2343 songs, which means I will have 7.3 days of uninterrupted music when all songs are played back to back. You have to realize this still excludes about 75% of my cd collection that I haven't yet ripped to MP3, never even mind the LPs and audio cassettes.

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