Apple iTunes 4
Its rare that I lose it with Apple but this time it's more of the same. Last night I downloaded iTunes 4 and the new version of Quicktime to enable it to run properly. iTunes 4 offers a few improvements over an already great programme. The best thing so far has bee the ability for Paula to open iTunes on her 15" Powerbook and get the play list on our iMac and stream the music over our home WiFi network. It's brilliant - she can listen to music wherever she is in the house or garden - whilst keeping one central store of music on the iMac - who wants to spend hours feeding in all your CD's into the laptop when we have all our music on the iMac.
However there is a fly in the ointment. iTunes now comes with Music Store - where you can search, listen to and buy tracks for $0.99 which has actually made me interested in the potential for buying music online. But you can't buy any music if your in the UK (and plenty of other places)!
This is exactly the same as the photobook in iPhoto where you can pick the look and feel of a photo album and download your images to a supplier who will print out and make up the album. Only available in the USA. Well its back to Limewire then.
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