iTunes 3 was released in July 2002. The headline feature was smart playlists, which allowed users to create dynamic playlists based on a set of rules (like mail rules). If you wanted a playlist of ...

In May of that year, the iTunes Store introduced iTunes Plus, which was 256 kbps DRM free music, sold at a slight premium, allowing interoperability with other software and hardware.

On April 28, 2003, Apple threw open the virtual doors to its iTunes Store, and music – all digital media, really – hasn’t been the same since.

And they were right, to some extent. It's true: on Macs, iTunes is indeed going away as a piece of software. The long-awaited iTunes shutdown is finally happening.

iTunes has been Apple's primary media player for about two decades. It debuted in 2001 and has been the primary way that most people listened to music and downloaded songs to their iPhones ever since.

When iTunes attempted to consolidate my library to the NAS and the copy aborted, it also looks like it attempted to clean all of this up, fixing the iTunes database so that in the new location ...

After 18 years, Apple is killing iTunes — sort of. The software is being broken into separate pieces for separate uses on Mac computers: Music, podcasts and TV will soon have their own apps.

The only Apple-specific part of old iTunes files is that they’re wrapped in DRM (these music files end in the file extension .m4p—the p stands for “protected”—as opposed to .m4a).

iTunes Radio and more in iTunes 11.1 With the September 18 release of iTunes 11.1, Apple added a few new features for finding your music, listening to podcasts, and discovering new music.

iTunes as an app won’t exist on the new Mac operating system, but you’ll still be able to buy music from the iTunes Store. It’ll just exist on the sidebar in the new Music app.

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If iTunes keeps on crashing or freezing and becomes unusable or unresponsive on your Windows 11/10 PC, use these fixes to resolve the issue.