iTunes: Secrets, and iTunes audio converter

iTunes is a digital media player presented by Apple Inc. It functions as both media (audio and video) library and player. iTunes also provides the interface for managing the contents on iPod, iPhone and other Apple applications.

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iTunes is connected to Apple’s online store with built-in browser. Music, videos, audiobooks, television shows, iPod games, feature length films, and even podcasts and ringtones are available for download and purchase on the iTunes Store and downloadable via iTunes.

iTunes music must be purchased and get authorized with restrictions on their use, enforced by FairPlay, Apple's version of digital rights management. Under this DRM terms,

• Users can make no more than seven CD copies of any particular playlist containing songs purchased from the iTunes Store.
• Users can access their purchased songs on no more than five computers.

The latest version of iTunes supports MP3, AIFF, WAV, MPEG-4, AAC, and Apple Lossless, with capabilities of reading, writing, and converting between files in these formats.

Since it’s combined with QuickTime, iTunes can also play any audio files and some video formats that QuickTime can play, like protected aac, audiobook, Vorbis and flac audio files.

iTunes can convert DRM-free wma files to other audio formats, but it does not support direct playback or encoding of DRM protected wma files.

iTunes creates a virtual library for its users and allow them to edit the attributes (metadata) of music files. The metadata includes various kinds of attributes depending on the file format.

iTunes Library

This file caches ID3 tag (artist and genre) information and stores iTunes-specific information like play count and rating.

iTunes Music Library .xml

This attribute is refreshed whenever information in iTunes is changed. Apple's iDVD, iMovie, and iPhoto use this application.

ID3

For MP3 files, iTunes writes tags in Unicode ID3v2.2 by default. You can convert them to ID3v2.3 and ID3v2.4 by setting the "Convert ID3 Tags" in Advanced options. However, iTunes tends to skip ID3v1.x tags if both ID3v2.x and ID3v1.x tags exist in a file.

iTunes has enriched features to enhance better experience, some of which include:

Synchronizing iPod

iTunes can automatically synchronize music and video library with iPod when they are connected. Automatic synchronization can be turned off if the user wishes to do the update manually.

Smart playlist

iTunes supports Smart playlist, which can be automatically updated. Playlists can be played randomly or sequentially.

iMix

Apple introduced iMix as a user-created playlist publishing to solicit interactions. iMixes are limited to 100 songs and the content must be available on iTunes Store. iTunes iMix can be published to blog or website.

Internet radio

Internet radio service offered by iTunes has 300-400 radio stations, mostly in MP3 streaming format.

Sound processing

iTunes offers equalization, sound enhancement, cross-fade sound as well as sound check processing.

Print album cover

After burning a CD from a playlist, users can choose to print album cover. The program will automatically sets up a template with art on one side and track titles on the other.

iTunes is compatible with Mac OS X, Vista, and Windows XP. Apple offer free download of iTunes program at www.apple.com/itunes