Date: 2008-11-02 11:52:02 Created: null
So iTunes for Windows was released as expected. And, also as expected, it looks exactly like iTunes on Mac, no adherence to Windows standards here, no sir. It occured to me that this can be a kind of viral marketing from Apple's side, gradually infecting Windows with Mac-behaving apps to lure more people to Mac on one hand and gradually take over Windows on the other. Very sneaky eh? I can do conspiracies too when I put my mind to it!
For me, the neatest thing is having the whole thing available in the much higher resolution of my 17 inch monitor. There's so much more space! The music library of Pomum was discovered over the network before you could say AAC as well, but playing songs doesn't seem to update the play count. I guess it's got to do with sharing the library since iTunes Windows is said (and seems) to be an exact copy of iTunes Mac, but I'd still like the count to be increased just for completeness.
And having the music library accessible on the PC really is the main benefit of iTunes on Windows for me right now. The little playing around I did last night revealed that performence isn't anything to write home about. Quite the opposite in fact. Sure, I have an aging PC, and all music and lists had to be fetched over the network, but nevertheless things were much less smooth than you could have hoped for. Resizing was slow, slow, slow, and let's not talk about the visualisers (those are more exused though, when asking a PIII 700 to drive large visualiser effects on a 1600*1200 screen I don't expect any thanks from it) ... But it's all there and it all works just like it does on the Mac. It feels very hard not to like right now, even if the other players perform better.