stuart test blog

While I was looking at all the iPod news I downloaded the latest version of iTunes to see what all the hype was about. I’ve used it in the past but never really liked it that much – I just assumed that you would only use it to sync to your iPod. Version 5 of iTunes is actually very good I have been enjoying using it and have been digging up tracks that I haven’t played for ages because of it’s ease of use. But the feature that I found the most useful – is the ability to share your music library between computers on the same network. With my two laptops and two desktop computers, I often need to access tracks stored on the network and have never found a good way to do this. I’m not sure if this is a new feature in iTunes or not, but it makes it well worth the download for this feature alone.

I’m still using Windows Media Player which is far better than iTunes at organising your music library – it’s much easier to edit tags and to download album art. But iTunes beats WMP hands-down at playing music – the visualisations are much smoother and colourful, and it’s much easier to browse music in the library. Hopefully I’ll get my iPod Nano soon which I’ll be able to sync with iTunes too.