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Apple's iTunes is the world's most popular computer program for playing, managing and buying music, movies and TV shows. The company estimates the number of copies in active use to be in the high hundreds of millions. Now, Apple has given iTunes its biggest overhaul since 2003, when the software– originally just a jukebox for Macs– was made available for Windows computers and the built-in iTunes store was added.<br /><br />I've been testing this major new version, called iTunes 11, and I consider it a significant improvement in the look, feel, function and speed of the program, which had become somewhat bloated, dense and sluggish over the years as new features were added.<br /><br />This new version won't please every iTunes user. Some familiar ways of doing things have changed and some longtime features have been axed in the name of simplification. People who use iTunes solely to organize and play their media, not to buy it from Apple, will find many more prompts to patronize the iTunes store. There also are a few small flaws Apple is pledging to fix soon.<br /><br />Overall, however, I found the new iTunes a pleasure to use. The venerable program is now brighter and more colorful, with clever and pleasing new capabilities and faster search. There is tighter integration between the library of media that resides on your computer, and media stored in Apple's online iCloud service. Streaming from the cloud has been expanded. The store has also been made cleaner, simpler and easier to use.<br /><br />I tested iTunes 11 on four computers: two PC laptops, one running Windows 7 and one the new Windows 8; and two Macs, an older desktop iMac and a late-model MacBook Air laptop. On all four machines, it ran well and smoothly, never crashing and properly playing all the local and cloud-based music and videos I tried.<br /><br />In my tests, I bought a variety of new songs and videos, and they quickly became available on all my devices, including the four computers, an iPhone and an iPad. I also was able to smoothly sync an iPhone, an iPad and even a very old iPod, with no problems.<br /><br />There are many small changes scattered throughout the program, but a few stand out.<br /><br />The most notable change is that the program no longer uses a long, scrolling text sidebar to switch between displays of the major media types, such as music, movies, TV shows and podcasts. The music mode, for example, shows songs, albums, genres, artists and playlists.<br /><br />Opening the iTunes Store is now done using a button at the top right. Once in the store, you return to the library using a similar button at the right.<br /><br />Those who prefer the old sidebar can bring it back and banish the new main buttons.<br /><br /><br />Apple's iTunes is the world's most popular computer program for playing, buying and managing music, movies and TV shows. Now, Apple has given iTunes its biggest overhaul since 2003, when the software– originally just a jukebox for Macs– was made available for Windows computers and the built-in iTunes store was added.<br /><br />People who use iTunes solely to organize and play their media, not to buy it from Apple, will find many more prompts to patronize the iTunes store. There is tighter integration between the library of media that resides on your computer, and media stored in Apple's online iCloud service.<br /><br />Click Here for More Information!
