Naturally, iTunes is in a different league from Mail. You might virtually disagree that it is Apple's single most vital piece of software after OS X, its flagship digital product. ITunes is the best way to organize, share and hear music on your PC. Find new favorites. Manage your growing library. Enjoy the best pal an iPod ever had.
Importing your present music is just a matter of inserting a CD, while the iTunes tune shop offers something for everybody. Buy songs and albums by your fave musicians. Download exclusive tracks from artists like Eminem and Franz Ferdinand you will not find anywhere else. Or jumpstart your digital music collection with iTunes Necessities arranged by mood, artist or theme. ITunes is the software heart that makes the iPod such a successful device. And since it was provided for Windows and Mac OS X, iTunes has become the first piece of Apple software many of us ever see. As such, it acts as a representative, a means for Apple to show off its wares to potential new consumers.
What's more, iTunes does so many things. From its beginnings as a humble audio player, iTunes has become a central point for downloading and enjoying all demeanour of multimedia content. Podcasts, music videos, online radio, Television shows, and audio books have all got a place in the iTunes Sources bar. ITunes is also a store. For many of us, the iTunes music shop is the very first thing they try out when using iTunes for the 1st time Automated Option : If you are someone that likes to sleep in the same room as your Mac, then it is sensible to use it as a complicated alarm clock. Better yet, fix it so that iTunes wakes you up with your favourite songs each morning. AlarmThingy should do the job. In OS X, iTunes includes a decent stack of Automator actions ( including many designed for use with iPods ) you may like to mess around with. Explore Your Music : One of my fave add-ons for iTunes is Confusion , a free, open source app letting you look at your music collection the old school way : by seeing the sleeves. Confusion gives you the opportunity to put music CDs anywhere you like on your Desktop. You can drag them into whatever patterns or piles you like.

