iTunes

iTunes is the Music Store that has virtually every category of music to choose from. And whatever your tastes in music - Rock, Rap, Jazz, Blues, Pop, Latin, New Age, Folk, Inspirational, R&B, Reggae, Electronic, Classical or something in between - chances are you'll find the tunes you're looking for. With a vast catalog of music from all five U.S. major labels and agreements with 200 independent labels, the iTunes Music Store catalog of songs is growing every week.

Here is a detailed list of the iTunes features:

• Sync and go –  Simply connect iPod to your Mac or Windows computer and download an entire music CD in just 10 seconds. What's more, iTunes lets you stay in sync with Play Count, Last Played, Song Ratings and where your spoken word content left off. When you listen to an audiobook on your computer or iPod, the software creates a virtual bookmark. So the next time you sync your iPod with your computer, iTunes will remember exactly where you left off.
• New Music Sharing feature - iTunes has a Music Sharing feature that uses Rendezvous to give you remote streaming access to your personal music library from any room in your house. Let's say, for instance, that you have thousands of AAC and MP3 music files stored on a mac or Windows computer in your home office. The iTunes software works so smoothly on both platforms that you can share music with any combination of Macs and Windows PCs on a local area network ? regardless of whether you're running iTunes off a Mac or PC. And you won't have to manually configure anything, either.
• AAC: MPEG-4 audio – AAC (for Advanced Audio Coding, a big part of the MPEG-4 specification) is the cutting-edge audio codec that?s perfect for the Internet. AAC encoding compresses much more efficiently than older formats like MP3 (which iTunes still supports, by the way), while delivering quality rivaling that of uncompressed CD audio. In fact, some expert listeners have judged AAC audio files compressed at 128 kbps (stereo) to be virtually indistinguishable from the original uncompressed audio source. iTunes and QuickTime are all you need to get started.
• Books on the road – If you're in the mood to enjoy something completely different on your Mac and iPod, you'll be pleased to hear that iTunes 4 can play well-stocked library of best-selling audiobooks - 5,000 titles, and counting - on the iTunes Music Store. You'll love the public radio shows available from the iTunes Music Store. The shows available as a carte downloads include recent episodes of This American Life with Ira Glass, Fresh Air with Terry Gross, Car Talk, To The Best of Our Knowledge, Studio 360, Science Friday and Says You.
• In tune with your preferences - Generate dynamic Smart Playlists that reflect your preferences and listening habits. Instead of having to create playlists manually by clicking and dragging individual songs, you simply indicate what kind of music you like to hear. iTunes 4 lets you set the parameters - indicating attributes such as My Rating, Genre, Composer, Artist, Play Count, Last Played and so on - and then creates a personalized playlist that?s in tune with your preferences.

iTunes for Windows Requirements:

• Windows XP or 2000 (latest service packs recommended)
• 500 MHz Pentium class processor or better
• QuickTime 7.0.4 (included)
• 256MB RAM
• Supported CD-R or DVD-R drive to burn CDs
• Broadband Internet connection (DSL/Cable/LAN) for buying and streaming music
• 1.5 GHz Pentium class processor or better
• 32MB video RAM

iTunes for Macintosh Requirements:

• Mac OS X 10.2.8 or later
• 500MHz G3 processor or better
• QuickTime 6.5.2 or later
• 256MB RAM
• Combo/Super Drive to burn CDs
• Broadband Internet connection (DSL/Cable/LAN) for buying and streaming music 
• 500 MHz G4 processor or better