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What youve been waiting for A music store with Apples legendary ease of use, offering a hassle-free way to preview, buy and download music online quickly and easily, the iTunes Music Store 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 youll find the tunes youre looking for. With a vast catalog of music from all five United States major labels and agreements with 200 independent labels, the iTunes Music Store catalog of songs is growing every week. Sync and go Simply connect iPod or iPod mini to your Mac or Windows computer and download an entire music CD in just 10 seconds. Whats 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 iPod or your computer, the software creates a virtual bookmark. So the next time you sync your iPod or iPod mini with your computer, iTunes 4 will remember exactly where you left off. New Music Sharing feature iTunes 4 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. Lets 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 youre running iTunes off a Mac or PC. AAC: MPEG-4 audio AAC for Advanced Audio Coding, a big part of the MPEG-4 specification is the cutting-edge audio codec thats 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.
Books on the road If youre in the mood to enjoy something completely different on your computer and iPod or iPod mini, youll 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. Youll love the public radio shows available from the iTunes Music Store. The shows available as la 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.
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