User Reviews and Votes for iTunes

Summary: Better sound quality than WMA, but not as easy to use

Details: The quality of ACC files seems to be better than WMA or mp3 (for the same sampling rate). The library of music is easier to search through in the media player setup.

Pros: Better sound quality for native encoded tracks

Cons: no significant drawbacks

Period used: 3 months

Other products used: media player 9. Realplayer

Submitted by ian t on 08-Sep-2004 14:56:19

Summary: Best audio player available

Details: iTunes is perfect for any iPod owner or anyone who shares the main quality of iPod owners, a love of music. For other players playlists exist but fall far short of the superior ways that iTunes handles them and makes them available for use. The equalizer is complete and very accurate. The iTunes Music Store has most anything you could want to hear. And most of all the player itself is just damn sexy ;). Just try it and I guaranty you will fall in love with it as I have.

Pros: Simple playlists, party shuffle, seemless integration with iPod, ...

Cons: It needs an "always on top" option for the mini-player.

Period used: Over a year.

Other products used: Winamp 2, 3, 5, WMP, a few other no name players

Submitted by Patrick on 18-Aug-2004 15:07:48

Summary: Just the best! uncomparable!

Pros: The only usable musicstore!

Cons: -

Period used: 1 year

Other products used: winamp, windows media player, musicmatch.

Submitted by Florian Idelberger on 19-Aug-2004 10:52:14

Pros: Powerful searching and network sharing

Cons: Takes up a lot of space on the screen

Other products used: WinAmp, WindowsMediaPlayer, Musicman Jukebox

Submitted by Matt on 19-Aug-2004 14:33:44

Submitted by ylfcam on 19-Aug-2004 15:59:16

Submitted by Cintask Airer on 20-Aug-2004 12:35:05

Period used: since launch

Submitted by John Reinert Nash on 20-Aug-2004 14:59:11

Summary: Great player!

Details: iTunes is definately my favorite player for Windows. The music organization/playlist management is excellent. The equalizer is also excellent - the sound is nice and clear. Tons of great features like party shuffle, smart playlist, and miniplayer. And iTMS. And it's so beautiful!

Pros: playlist system, sound quality, features

Cons: no option to automatically add all files from folder to library and keep updated for new additions, the cd track info thing can take a minute on loading if you've got a cd in

Period used: original Windows release -> now

Other products used: Winamp, Windows Media Player, Dell Jukebox (musicmatch), Real

Submitted by madept on 20-Aug-2004 21:41:13

Period used: ~3 months

Other products used: winamp, windows media player, foobar, xmms, noatun

Submitted by a k on 21-Aug-2004 12:59:35

Submitted by Fabian on 21-Aug-2004 13:12:50

Pros: Overall Excellent App

Cons: SLOOOOOOOWWWWWWW

Period used: 1 yr

Other products used: Winamp, MusicMatch, SoundJam, XMMS

Submitted by (re)-(booted) on 22-Aug-2004 17:34:14

Summary: Does the basics very well

Submitted by Jay McWhirtetr on 23-Aug-2004 06:46:38

Submitted by pringlet on 23-Aug-2004 11:46:34

Details: Excellent playlist handling, excellent audio support, Rating system and graphic support make this a standout player. Miss Milkdrop from winamp. That visualizer used to haul ass. The library sharing is awsome. .m3u (standard playlist from shoutcast) needs to be handled a little better by itunes.

Period used: I've installed nearly ever version since the initial release incl. a beta

Other products used: mint audio, winamp, macamp, you name it....

Submitted by pringlet on 23-Aug-2004 11:46:34

Submitted by Tim on 23-Aug-2004 20:12:57

Summary: Everything I need and more.

Details: I only started using the iTMS after I started using iTunes. It's that good. I do have a few wishes for it, but overall, it's one the best complete audio programs. So many now are going to audio/video. While iTunes can probably do this (Quicktime based), it is still simple. Good features, easy to use, very stable.

Pros: Easy, friendly, not made by MS

Cons: sometimes uses a lot of resources

Period used: 2003-present

Other products used: WMP, Winamp, MusicMatch, RealOne

Submitted by Allan on 25-Aug-2004 18:54:18

Other products used: Winamp, Windows Media Player, Kjofol, Freeamp, QCD, Sonique, Foobar2000, MusicMatch Jukebox

Submitted by Matt Robinson on 26-Aug-2004 04:54:50

Submitted by nick bayless on 29-Aug-2004 12:56:51

Summary: suberb

Pros: easy interface, ipod syncing

Cons: no super tagging (//musicmatch), no balloon tips (//winamp)

Period used: 7 months

Other products used: winamp, musicmatch

Submitted by Frederik De Bosschere on 30-Aug-2004 11:13:07

Pros: Excelent User Interface

Cons: Don't have a "Now Playing" List

Period used: 1 Year

Other products used: Music Match, Winamp, Real Player

Submitted by Mike Rosales on 30-Aug-2004 17:19:53

Submitted by mike on 31-Aug-2004 02:29:28

Submitted by embe on 31-Aug-2004 07:30:52

Other products used: Winamp, XMMS, RealPlayer, Windows Media Player, Sonique, Noatun

Submitted by Joshua Marshall on 31-Aug-2004 14:52:19

Summary: iTunes Rocks

Details: I used to use WinAmp almost exclusively, but each new version seems to bog it down more. WinMedia is just too bulky. I am very, very happy with iTunes! It is by far the best media player I've used. So far it has worked FoxyTunes has controlled it flawlessly.

Other products used: WinAmp, Windows Media

Submitted by Ken on 01-Sep-2004 13:38:17

Summary: they need to improve it, but it kicks WM9 so far it isn't funny.

Pros: great quality conversions, good organizer, great resource in the itunes music store, although Kazaa Lite is still free. you can't beat free.

Cons: no auto album art, no other players besides ipod, etc.

Period used: a month

Other products used: Winamp (which rocks but ive had some bad compatibility problems with it)

Submitted by joe samothrace on 03-Sep-2004 23:05:33

Summary: A great looking player that performs well.

Pros: random visulizer

Cons: Not great choice of web radio.

Period used: 2 months

Other products used: Winamp, Windows Media player, Real player

Submitted by Ivan on 05-Sep-2004 05:38:47

Submitted by Frederik on 06-Sep-2004 09:43:00

Summary: I Love iTunes

Details: It just rocks, flat out. Would be cool to get a little mini-snapshot of the album art hover over the player, if possible :)

Period used: 1 year +

Submitted by Josh on 08-Sep-2004 16:36:18

Summary: Itunes is a great media player!!

Details: All the songs are in one big bulk pile and they are extremely easy to find and its a great inerface, not a dark WMP piece of crap but a lgiht, easy to read one.

Pros: Ease of use, songs not all divided into small sections

Cons: Crappy party shuffle

Other products used: Windows Media Player and

Submitted by Pat on 08-Sep-2004 16:37:36

Summary: it's simply the best

Details: woot

Pros: awesome

Cons: none

Period used: 2 years

Other products used: winamp, windows media 9, Real, musicmatch

Submitted by dsddf on 09-Sep-2004 02:01:12

Pros: The Music Store

Period used: Since October 16 2003

Other products used: Windows Media Player 9

Submitted by Michael Cavallaro on 10-Sep-2004 13:34:49

Summary: SIMPLY THE BEST!!!

Details: I can't understand why some people still uses Wintel based software and system... Apple products earn each cent invested on it!

Pros: All

Cons: None

Period used: 4 years

Other products used: WinAmp, Windows Media Player, RealOne

Submitted by Hlio Sassen Paz on 10-Sep-2004 15:57:04

Summary: iTunes trumps WinAmp

Details: I used WinAmp since v2. And it just got bigger and bigger and the playlist features never got any better. I have been very satisfied since I switched to iTunes. My only wish for iTunes is that it would minimize to the system tray, not just the task bar.

Pros: playlist functionality

Cons: won't minimize to system tray

Period used: August 2004 to present

Other products used: WinAmp, Windows Media, Musicmatch

Submitted by Ken Kuhl on 10-Sep-2004 22:08:06

Details: for Macintosh!

Submitted by Jacques on 12-Sep-2004 09:40:44

Summary: Great player, great features, great music store, great music.

Details: This is, by far, the best media player out there. Not only is it the best player, but it has the world's best, and largest online music store build right in!

Pros: Everything

Cons: Now

Period used: Hmm... I got it when it first came out.

Other products used: Winamp, Windows Media Player, Musicmatch, Realplayer, and some others that I can't remember...

Submitted by Jason on 13-Sep-2004 16:16:20

Summary: Great Firefox Extension

Details: Great job.

Submitted by Joe Allen on 13-Sep-2004 20:31:14

Submitted by Marco Ramirez on 14-Sep-2004 14:52:08

Submitted by David Smith on 14-Sep-2004 19:36:00

Submitted by Ryan Hilton on 14-Sep-2004 21:18:46

Summary: Perfect!

Details: Just amazing player. Better than Winamp

Submitted by Helge Czerwinski on 15-Sep-2004 09:01:26

Summary: The best all in one Media Player

Period used: 2003-today

Other products used: Windows Media Player

Submitted by Ferdie on 15-Sep-2004 09:16:07

Submitted by bob on 15-Sep-2004 15:03:05

Submitted by Veer on 15-Sep-2004 18:38:25

Pros: great interface

Cons: buggy, hard to expand, fixed apple interface

Period used: 3 months

Other products used: wmp, winamp, foobar2000

Submitted by No-fear Cavalier on 15-Sep-2004 20:13:45

Period used: 9 months

Other products used: Winamp

Submitted by Chris on 15-Sep-2004 23:33:42

Submitted by kevin on 16-Sep-2004 01:10:21

Submitted by Fat Yip on 16-Sep-2004 09:25:23

Submitted by Craig Pugsley on 16-Sep-2004 10:40:42

Period used: 2 years

Other products used: WinAmp 2.x, 3.x, XMMS, Juk, SoundJam, Whamb, WMP

Submitted by Nick Melnick on 16-Sep-2004 12:48:49

Other products used: RealPlayer 10.5, WMP 9 & 10, WinAMP

Submitted by Ronnie Smith on 16-Sep-2004 18:14:19

Submitted by murph on 16-Sep-2004 18:29:00

Submitted by Justin Rajendra on 16-Sep-2004 19:17:59

Submitted by D. Miller on 16-Sep-2004 23:05:06

Summary: Easy to use

Details: Easy to use. Lots of great features such as an excellent search engine, decent ripping capabilities, great burning options, good rating system, and you have to love the "smart" playlists. It also seems to run faster than other players I've tried such as MusicMatch and Windows Media Player.

Submitted by Post on 16-Sep-2004 23:55:54

Submitted by Nagaraja on 17-Sep-2004 00:38:48

Submitted by mom on 17-Sep-2004 09:16:13

Submitted by Arnie Benton on 17-Sep-2004 10:11:25

Summary: Man iTunes ROX()RZ

Pros: Amazingness

Cons: A few quirky bugs

Other products used: WinAmp, WMP

Submitted by NEIL on 17-Sep-2004 10:44:21

Pros: Very slick and easy to use

Cons: Some issues with playlist functionality, memory hog

Period used: 1 year

Other products used: XMMS, FreeAmp, Zinf, Winamp, Window Media Player

Submitted by Damon Buckwalter on 17-Sep-2004 13:22:44

Summary: Great but one problem

Details: Overall the control is great but when I try to close iTunes it doesnt let me because firefox is using it, so I force it to close and the extension just opens it up again. I cant get it to stop opening itunes.

Pros: Plays and controls iTunes fine.

Cons: Cannot close iTunes when extension is running

Period used: 1 hour

Other products used: none

Submitted by Raffi on 17-Sep-2004 20:53:38

Summary: Too amazing for words.

Pros: Most Amazing Player Ever

Cons: Alphabatizes album titles with The in the "t" section, even though it can handle 'The Beatles' as being a "b"

Period used: 2 years +

Other products used: Real Player, WinAmp, Music Match, Windows Media Player

Submitted by DK on 18-Sep-2004 08:35:11

Submitted by allard on 18-Sep-2004 08:53:33

Pros: Hitting spacebar pauses song, smart playlists, radio, burner

Period used: Over a year

Other products used: Windows Media Player, Ultraplayer, RealOne player, Winamp, Musicmatch Jukebox

Submitted by Cindy on 18-Sep-2004 17:06:49

Other products used: winamp, media player

Submitted by clay on 18-Sep-2004 23:39:23

Summary: Great extension

Details: I found that this extension worked seamlessly and instantly with my itunes. Great job.

Submitted by Michael Constanza on 19-Sep-2004 09:39:43

Pros: nice easy interface

Cons: Really have to know what you want to play.

Period used: since out for Windows.

Other products used: winamp, musicmatch, windows media player

Submitted by jon on 19-Sep-2004 12:49:10

Details: wish it had somethign similar to SRS WOW effects that Windows Media player has, but still iTunes is pretty neat

Submitted by aa on 19-Sep-2004 21:14:10

Summary: It's just better than MediaPlayer

Pros: edit playlists, share music over the network

Cons: not as many skins

Period used: 4 weeks

Other products used: WinAmp, Windows media player

Submitted by Joy Chavez on 19-Sep-2004 21:32:48

Summary: Rocks!

Details: Had trouble with realplayer 10.5, which is my other main player.

Submitted by Robyn on 19-Sep-2004 23:59:03

Submitted by richard on 20-Sep-2004 02:19:00

Summary: iTunes is brilliant

Details: See the summary.

Pros: Beautiful, sounds great, best for organization

Cons: Memory Hog

Period used: half a year

Other products used: Winamp, MPC, BSP, WMP, etc etc

Submitted by Celirya Halcyon on 20-Sep-2004 11:22:39

Other products used: Window$ media player

Submitted by Caillet Michael on 20-Sep-2004 15:36:05

Summary: OK, but doesn't remember last track/track position on startup (and this sucks)

Details: The following comment assumes that we are talking about the actual *player* used, not your fantastic foxytunes controller :). Unfortunately, none of the (Mac OS X) iTunes controllers implement a 'track memorising' feature either, so presumably this feature isn't in the APIs.

Pros: Reasonable player, could do without the iTunes store ("No Oz iTunes store yet, try again later...", yeah, right

Cons: no track memorisation feature, no Oz iTunes store (see above); hate the brushed steel UI

Period used: 4 months

Other products used: Real Player (used off and on over several years)

Submitted by Alex Newman on 20-Sep-2004 21:52:22

Summary: problems

Details: iTunes isnt listed in my player list and neither of the generic players work so i would like to see iTunes added to the list

Submitted by Yrag on 21-Sep-2004 01:37:24

Submitted by Thomas on 21-Sep-2004 11:47:46

Submitted by Keller on 21-Sep-2004 17:10:53

Submitted by RIchard Evans on 21-Sep-2004 19:10:59

Submitted by Jonathan Lang on 21-Sep-2004 21:26:17

Summary: best of the best

Pros: elegant and stylish, easy to use

Cons: slow sometime

Period used: less than 1 year

Other products used: winamp, windowsmediaplayer, apollo

Submitted by boggy on 22-Sep-2004 05:30:19

Summary: HOLY SHIT IT ROCK'S

Details: One Hell Of Ann Addition!

Submitted by John L on 22-Sep-2004 15:04:43

Cons: 3 running processes

Period used: a year

Other products used: winamp, realplayer, windows media player

Submitted by Carlos Aguilar on 22-Sep-2004 15:37:28

Cons: occasionally the track info window hangs open. Would also like to see Autohide both Main and control pannels at the same time.

Period used: a few months

Submitted by M on 23-Sep-2004 07:46:31

Submitted by Mike Rosales on 30-Aug-2004 17:19:53

Summary: iTunes Rocks

Pros: Everything about this player is great

Cons: Not on Linux as well

Period used: 4 years

Other products used: WMP, Sonique, Winamp

Submitted by Kevin on 23-Sep-2004 12:41:06

Submitted by Michael Rocha on 23-Sep-2004 15:04:27

Summary: Great

Pros: Ease

Cons: Format

Period used: 4 months?

Submitted by Gary on 24-Sep-2004 10:48:20

Summary: Great and easy to use

Period used: for about a month

Other products used: Windows Media Player, WinAmp

Submitted by Anonymous on 24-Sep-2004 23:24:28

Details: before using itunes, i used winamp 5.03. I liked winamp for its looks and flexibility, but the sound quality was somehow not there. Once i got a good sound card and speaker setup, it was really noticable. iTunes seems to sound better. iTunes, however has some problems. Maybe i'm just ignorant, but i cannot get itunes to scan directories at startup like winamp would. This means adding the file(s) in the directory, then going to iTunes and telling it where to find them. Maybe this will be fixed in upcoming versions. Or maybe it only works within the default iTunes folder, which i don't use except for the m4a's ripped by itunes. this program is also a resource hog, runs choppy and slow even on relatively good computers. the family computer is a P4 1.4ghz with 384mb ram and a 32mb geforce 2 mx video card. it seems silly to have a media player that uses directX. Looks nice though.

Pros: Easy to use, integrates nicely, good sound quality

Cons: inconvenient to add files, too few options

Period used: 6 months

Other products used: winamp, windows media player

Submitted by fish on 25-Sep-2004 17:54:23

Pros: Ipod compatible, easy to sort songs

Cons: no minimise to tray, no visulisations, made by Apple, apple store not in my location

Period used: 2 months

Other products used: winamp 2,3,5, Windows Media Player 6,7,8,9,10, Sonique, Musicmatch Jukebox, XMMS.

Submitted by Brendan Runeckles on 26-Sep-2004 02:55:03

Summary: I can't use it. Maybe because I have a mac, but iTunes is for PCs, too!

Details: I would Really like a version made SPECIFICALLY for mac. I have a mac, and it sucks not having great apps BUILT for mac. If you could just have a mac version with iTunes, tat would be awesome. Another idea: how about one built JUST for itunes? There are plenty of apps like that, but if i could just controll iTunes from my internet browser... -Jakey Simonds-Malamud

Pros: Nice interface

Cons: no iTunes support

Submitted by Jakey on 26-Sep-2004 08:16:36

Summary: GREAT!!

Pros: very simple to use, yet powerful

Cons: --none--

Period used: 3yrs+

Other products used: rel, windows media

Submitted by Nick Johns on 26-Sep-2004 17:05:59

Summary: AWSOME!!

Period used: 4yrs+

Other products used: lots...

Submitted by bob on 26-Sep-2004 17:07:04

Summary: very cool!!

Details: mac version is great, pc version is ok

Period used: 2yrs+

Other products used: many..

Submitted by will on 26-Sep-2004 17:10:07

Submitted by kurt on 26-Sep-2004 17:14:42

Submitted by mike on 26-Sep-2004 17:15:19

Submitted by nicole on 26-Sep-2004 17:15:59

Summary: iTunes is the best media player out there

Details: I'm a big fan of iTunes, ever since 2 or 3.0, I've seen it change so much over the ages, it used to support 3rd party usb mp3 players, but then the iPod came out and blew the competition away. iTunes is easy, simple, and has a nice interface.

Pros: simple, nice user interface, available on mac os x and windows, aac, music videos/movie trailers on the iTunes Music Store

Cons: no iTMS Canada, a little laggy on windows, user interface could be smaller

Period used: 3 years

Other products used: Mac: Winamp .7x (OS 9), apple cd player (OS 8x), Windows Media Player (POS on OS X), VLC, mplayer OS X; Windows: Winamp, WiMP 6-10, vlc, music match, realplayer/realone player/real jukebox, foobar

Submitted by Cody on 26-Sep-2004 20:12:51

Submitted by Peter Pqt on 26-Sep-2004 21:59:19

Summary: Most featureful player on the market

Pros: Excellent organisational set up

Cons: Lacks plugins

Period used: 3 or 4 months

Other products used: Winamp, XMMS, Musicmatch

Submitted by Adrian Jackson on 27-Sep-2004 04:18:11

Details: The only downside is the propreitary AAC format.

Period used: 1 year

Other products used: most

Submitted by Matt Walsh on 27-Sep-2004 10:34:35