ITunes

iTunes is a Logiciel owner of reading and management of multi-media library numerical distributed free by Apple. He is available officially on Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows, and semi-officially on GNU Linux.

iTunes gives access the online music store of Apple, the ITunes Store (in the past iTunes Music Store or iTMS). iTunes manages the transfers of music, photographs and vidéos on the various peripherals multimedia of Apple: all models of IPod, the Apple TV, and the IPhone. Lastly, it is also a software of streaming, and makes it possible to listen to radios of the whole world uninterrupted diffused by Internet. iTunes integrates the strategy of the numerical hub thus defined by Steve Jobs. iTunes belongs to the software continuation of Apple ILife. In addition, iTunes requires obligatorily QuickTime to function, this one is installed besides with iTunes and in is indissociable. A desinstallation of QuickTime will involve an impossibility of launching iTunes.

According to a study of Nielsen, iTunes occupies, as a software of streaming, the 3rd place of the market with more than 27 million people using iTunes for the streaming, behind WMP and RealPlayer. QuickTime is used by thirteen million people

Characteristics

Functionalities

iTunes makes it possible to create " Playlist " and of the " lists of readings intelligentes" (since version 3). iTunes also makes it possible to listen to Podcast (since version 4.9) and of reading vidéos (MPEG4, H.264; since version 4.6). iTunes makes it possible (since version 1) to listen to radio in Stream. iTunes synchronizes also the IPod (since version 2).

Formats dealt with

iTunes can read the following audio formats: MP3, MPEG4 Audio (AAC), AIFF, WAV and Apple Lossless as well as WMA only for the Windows version. It does not read by defect the files Ogg Vorbis (but it is possible to install easily an extension QuickTime to cure it: http://www.xiph.org/quicktime/) iTunes deals with the following formats vidéos: MPEG4, H.264.

History

  • 5.0 : September 7th 2005

    • New interface
    • Support of the ipod nano (1st edition)
    • Possibility of reading and encoder file in AAC VBR
    • Possibility of creating files to put the playlists
    • Words in the " page; information"
    • Parental control for the Podcasts and the ITunes Music Store
    • Improvement of the research tools
  • 5.0.1 : September 20th 2005
    • Correction of bugs
  • 6.0 : October 12th 2005
    • " Vidéos" added in the list of the sources
  • 6.0.1 : October 20th 2005
    • Correction of bugs
  • 6.0.2 : January 10th 2006
    • MiniStore
  • 6.0.3 : February 15th 2006
  • 6.0.4 : March 1st 2006
  • 6.0.4.2 : March 3rd 2006
  • 6.0.4.3 : March 12th 2006
  • 6.0.5 : June 29th 2006
  • 7.0 : September 12th 2006
    • Support of the processors 64 bits
    • Remote loading of the missing covers of album
    • Posting of the covers of all the albums
    • New interface and new logo (blue)
    • Information on the types of file contained in the iPod
    • Support for the iPod Shuffle and the iPod Nano (Second edition)
    • Possibility of downloading plays for iPod (Tetris, PacMan, etc…)
    • Fine of support for Mac OS 10.2
  • 7.0.1 : September 27th 2006
    • Improvements of stability
  • 7.0.2 : November 1st 2006
    • Support for the iPod Shuffle (Second edition)
  • 7.1 : March 5th 2007
  • 7.1.1 : March 19th 2007
  • 7.2 : May 30th, 2007
    • Support of the files iTunes More, without DRM
    • Correction of multiple bugs under Vista (1st version theoretically completely compatible with Microsoft Windows Vista)
  • 7.3 : June 29th 2007
    • Suppport of the IPhone (Activation & syncronisation)
    • Envoi of photographs towards the Apple TV by using to it without wire
    • the Liste of selected reading are on blue bottom and the buttons in bottom of window are blanchâtres
    • iTunes alerts us when a small pocket of album is untraceable
    • Ajout of a button of synchronization in the window of the IPod
    • the sights by album and " Coverflow" for the Podcast
  • 7.3.1 are available: July 12th 2007
    • Correction of bugs
  • 7.3.2 : August 2nd 2007
    • Improvement of the stability and corrections of bugs
  • 7.4 : September 5th 2007
    • Support of the IPod touch as well as the new range of IPod
  • 7.4.1 : September 8th 2007
    • Correction of a fault
  • 7.4.2 : September 17th 2007
    • Improvement of the stability and corrections of bugs
  • 7.4.3 : September 27th 2007
    • Ringings: You will be able with the songs present in iTunes Store, to personalize your ringings for your iPhone.
    • iTunes Wi-Fi Music : to download music starting from iTunes Wi-Fi Music starting from your iPod touch or iPhone.
    • Starbucks: In your Starbucks, you will be able to buy the piece in reading directly on your computer, iPod touch or iPhone.
  • 7.5 : November 5th 2007
    • Support of the European IPhone and the play Phase on IPod Nano/Classic
    • Improvement of the stability and the performances
    • Corrections of bugs

More detailed history but in English: here.

See too

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External bond

  • Official site of iTunes
  • To configure its ipod under Linux

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