Mac iTunes Primer Tutorial

Mac iTunes Primer Tutorial

If there was a questionairre asking what the two best catered for “concepts” in day-to-day computing are I’d pick:

1. the “where” of life … geospatial applications … think of Google Maps and Google Earth and huge number of mobile apps
2. music … it’s everywhere … YouTube, radio station streaming, podcasts, videos, blogs, presentations, ringtones, and of course people’s iTunes libraries

Reading about iTunes on Wikipedia, I didn’t know it used to be something else …

SoundJam MP, developed by Bill Kincaid and released by Casady & Greene in 1999,[5] was renamed iTunes when Apple purchased it in 2000.

… and marvelled at how all pervasive it has become as a concept of the noughties … so recent.

Apple has used iTunes as a flagship for so much more that an online music player, and now is often crucial in the process of adding new software into your Mac OS X desktop or iOS mobile operating system via the App Store, or adding new music via the iTunes Store. Sometimes it feels as though you could have an operating system that is just iTunes … in which case, if we discover another (junior) planet near Uranus … can’t it be uTunes, or iTunesYouSo_ButWouldYouListen?

So with iTunes currently you can store more than music. You can store videos, you can open a live streaming URL (like radio), subscribe to a podcast, access television shows and/or books. As with the early days of iTunes, only more now, you can “Sync” your iTunes library across devices, such as iPod (as in the early days of iTunes), and iPhones and iPads.

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