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This article is about the iTunes application. For the online media service see iTunes Store.
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iTunes 8 running on Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger in List View with the new Genius option on. |
| Developed by | Apple Inc. |
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| Latest release | 8.0.2.20 / 20 November 2008; 14 days ago |
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| OS | Mac OS X v10.4.9 or later Windows XP Service Pack 2 or later and Vista 1 |
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| Type | Media player |
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| License | Proprietary |
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| Website | www.apple.com/itunes/ |
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iTunes 8.0.0.35 running on Windows Vista
iTunes is a proprietary digital media player application introduced by Apple Inc. on January 9 2001 2 at the Macworld Expo in San Francisco. 3 The latest version iTunes 8 was announced at Apples September 2008 keynote Lets Rock. The application is used for playing and organizing digital music and video files. The program is also an interface to manage the contents on Apples popular iPod digital media players as well as the iPhone. Additionally iTunes can connect to the iTunes Store via the Internet to purchase and download music music videos television shows Applications iPod games audiobooks various podcasts feature length films and Movie Rentals and Ringtones . It is also used to download applications for the iPhone and iPod Touch as long as they are running the 2.X firmware. 4
iTunes is available as a free download for Mac OS X Windows Vista and Windows XP from Apples website. It is also bundled with all Macs and some HP and Dell computers. Older versions are available for Mac OS 9 OS X 10.0-10.2 and Windows 2000. Although Apple does not produce iTunes for other operating systems it can be run on Linux-based operating systems through Wine a Windows compatibility layer. 5
A version of iTunes was shipped with cell phones from Motorola which included the ability to sync music from an iTunes library to the cellphone as well as a similar interface between both platforms. Since the release of the iPhone Apple has stopped distributing iTunes with other manufacturers phones in order to concentrate sales to Apples device.
