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.

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.

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 ...

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).

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.

Girl group BLACKPINK is seen in this photo provided by YG Entertainment. (PHOTO NOT FOR SALE) (Yonhap) BLACKPINK-new single ...

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 ...

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.

iTunes is the glue of Apple’s software universe: It connects the company’s phones and tablets, desktops and laptops, and online media store and streaming service. It is also, in the inimitable ...

With iTunes, Apple had drawn the blueprint for distributing music, movies, books, and apps over the web. By supplying and tying together a music player, online store, and song-mangement software ...