Ever since the iTunes by Apple was introduced on January 10, 2001 at the Macworld Exposition, it has had far and wide recognition with music lovers. This digital media player application can not only play digital music and video files but can also organize them for the convenience of the users. Today the iTunes rules the digital music world and is best combined with Apple’s iPod and iPhone. Another useful feature of iTunes is that it can connect the users to the iTunes store from where users can download and buy their favorite music videos, digital music, audiobooks, most loved television shows, and iPod games. iTunes has opened up a whole new world of entertainment for the users and there is nothing like it in today’s world. But in order to connect to the iTunes store the users need an internet connection. The iTunes is offered as a free download with Mac OS X, Windows XP, and Windows Vista by accessing the website of Apple. iTune however is not available with the Linux OS.

Features

The users of iTunes can organize the music into playlists in one or more than one library. Users can edit the file information and record CDs, as well as get the digital music files onto their digital audio player. The playlists feature of iTunes lets the users handle the music files the way they want. iTunes not only supports static playlists but also supports smart playlists. Users can set their playlists for automatic updates for which the users need to have selection criteria which has to be customized. Though there are different facets of a playlist one can enter different selection criteria’s for the updates. The users can publish playlists according to their preferences. One can play the playlist in an order or even just randomly.