iTunes for everyone???

Well, this is an inter­est­ing turn. iTunes is now ava­ialbe for win­dows… and it looks good to. Oh an by that I don’t just mean that it lit­er­al­ly looks goods, but that it appears to be a good, sol­id peice of soft­ware. And I’m think­ing the best music play­ing juke­box soft­ware for the PC, ever!

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  1. Over­all I quite like it, and once i’ve got over the ini­tial headaches I’m still using it as my default audio play­er on Win­dows.
    How­ev­er the shiny new Win­dows iTunes has quite a few gotchas — par­tic­u­lar­ly with the sharing/streaming and built-in cd burn­ing. Many of these could be issues on the Mac, but Apple has the advan­tage of con­trol over the hardware/OS and there are so many more poten­tial con­fig­u­ra­tions of Win­dows.
    I’m amazed that it’s fea­ture for fea­ture with the Mac ver­sion.
    My two biggest gripes are: it seems like iTunes is pro­grammed accord­ing to the mac styled event mod­el, thus it’s quite pos­si­ble for it to get hung up on some task and sit at 100% cpu occu­pan­cy thus hang­ing the entire OS. This should be some­thing that good soft­ware design attempts to reduce/eliminate.
    Sec­ond­ly, there isn’t enough noti­fi­ca­tion for advanced users in the install per­tain­ing to the changes that are made, in par­tic­u­lar — it installs two ser­vices that are run­ning from the time you start your machine.
    In com­par­i­sion to some of the oth­er free Win­blowz apps — say real play­er, the default install behav­iour of iTunes is not any more obnox­ious, both add stuff to the sys­tem tray, try and take over file asso­ci­a­tions and add pro­grams that run at start­up. I was just expect­ing a more min­i­mal­ist approach by Apple. What is wrong with not start­ing the CD-Burn­ing libraries until they are required?

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