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SM-Bot
21 Oct 2003, 2:09am
Apple announced yesterday that 1 million copies of its new iTunes software for Windows (released last Thursday), have now been downloaded. It has also been reported that more than 1 million actual songs have been sold as well, a significant increase over that of the company's typical sales rates.

"We're off to a great start, and our competition isn't even out of the starting gates yet," Apple CEO Steve Jobs said in a statement.
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Enverex
21 Oct 2003, 2:14am
Not supprised, every site I have been to has had people crapping themselves over the release.

NS
Thrax
21 Oct 2003, 2:19am
Unfortunately.
RWB
21 Oct 2003, 2:51am
I love Windows iTunes :D It has replaced my WinAmp install...
croc_
21 Oct 2003, 8:50am
not free, but an iTunes alternative: Jriver Media Center 9.1
Geeky1
21 Oct 2003, 8:55am
Well, I suppose I'll give it a try. But if I like it (which I won't) it's all your fault RWB... but you don't have to worry, 'cause it's an apple product, which means that I won't like it. ;D
Enverex
21 Oct 2003, 9:13am
http://www.penny-arcade.com/images/2003/20031020l.gif

NS
BDR
21 Oct 2003, 9:16am
I took a look at it and decided to stay with Music Match.
reelbigfish
21 Oct 2003, 4:36pm
personally musicmatch has always been a crappy program. I remember when I had it with an older creative MP3 player and it never worked right. iTunes is great, especially since I can stream music off of other peoples computers right in the program, and the store is not bad at all, I had to try it. Definitly the best program to transfer files to your iPod.
croc_
21 Oct 2003, 5:00pm
http://www.musicex.com/mediacenter/
primesuspect
21 Oct 2003, 5:04pm
It's actually a great app... I like it.
BDR
21 Oct 2003, 6:54pm
reelbigfish had this to say
personally musicmatch has always been a crappy program. I remember when I had it with an older creative MP3 player and it never worked right. iTunes is great, especially since I can stream music off of other peoples computers right in the program, and the store is not bad at all, I had to try it. Definitly the best program to transfer files to your iPod.

I had to the same opinion of the older version of MM.
Didn't work right, and I didn't like it at all.
This version seems better.
Geeky1
21 Oct 2003, 7:43pm
What's wrong with WMP? I haven't installed apple's sw yet, but I've never had a problem with WMP. In fact, I like WMP 8 and 9.
BDR
21 Oct 2003, 7:46pm
Nothing wrong with WMP.

People are going to Itunes and MusicMatch because of the online music stores they have, afaik.
primesuspect
21 Oct 2003, 7:48pm
I never ever "got" WMP's interface.. I used it before iTunes, but I didn't really like it.
Geeky1
21 Oct 2003, 7:58pm
Prime, I dunno... maybe there's just some part of me that subconsciously likes Microsoft or something. I mean, IE is the best browser around, IMO, I like WMP, I like Windows, Office is the best office suite in existince IMO, Frontpage is almost as good as Dreamweaver, etc.

So I dunno... maybe I just have some subconscious affinity for Microsoft products.
BDR
21 Oct 2003, 9:27pm
I personaly prefer WinAmps' interface, but I re-installed Itunes and will give it another look.

BDR is definately still undecided.
Thrax
21 Oct 2003, 9:41pm
I like WMP for movies. Its codec support is very fine, as is the video rendering quality.

Otherwise, I think it's overdone for music, and I don't like its playlist control.

Otherwise. <3 microsoft.

Best browser. Best office suite. Highest security rating for consumer OSes from the largest OS auditing firm in the world. Wonderful server platform (2K3). Incredibly good proxy (ISA). Etc.
Enverex
21 Oct 2003, 9:56pm
Thrax had this to say
Highest security rating for consumer OSes from the largest OS auditing firm in the world.

You like saying that dont you.

Anyway, I hate WMP8 and 9, I always use 6, no crap and alot faster.

NS
Enverex
21 Oct 2003, 10:23pm
Ok, installed it....... and I dont see anything special about it.
Its a player with a playlist. Wow.
When I buy music, I buy it on CD from cheap online stores, not pre-encoded stuff like that.

It also didn't seem to understand the concept of "DONT ASSOCIATE WITH ANY AUDIO OR VIDEO FILE TYPES" as it has associated itself with every single AV type.

>> Uninstall.

NS
BDR
21 Oct 2003, 10:35pm
So now you not only hate people, you hate Itunes as well?


;D




Sorry... I couldn't help myself. :buck: