The Complete iTunes History: SoundJam MP to iTunes 9
Linked by Kroc Camen on Thu 17th Sep 2009 14:56 UTC
Apple "Watching Steve take the stage and roll out a new version of iTunes got us all nostalgic for the old days, when iTunes logos changed color and our jukebox looked like it could withstand a bomb blast. Below is the history of the application that is running more than any other on our Macs. It spawned the iPod, iPhone, Apple TV and gave us an excuse to throw out those ugly CD towers that resided in the corners of our houses in the 90s. The ever present, iTunes."
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Winamp
by Soulbender on Thu 17th Sep 2009 16:25 UTC
Soulbender
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2005-08-18

SoundJam MP app, a powerful digital encoding program that looked a lot like Apple’s QuickTime player.


Eh, it looks more like Winamp than QuickTime.

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Music player to malware
by Leroy on Thu 17th Sep 2009 16:38 UTC
Leroy
Member since:
2006-07-06

iTunes was ok at first when it did what it was supposed to do; play music. Now that its code has bloated over the years from so many "features", I won't even install it. What is with all those services?!

Hey writer, I'll keep my CD tower in the corner. CDs play anywhere.

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RE: Music player to malware
by Chaos_One on Thu 17th Sep 2009 18:13 UTC in reply to "Music player to malware"
Chaos_One Member since:
2005-07-18

How can you judge it if you don't even install it? ;-)

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RE[2]: Music player to malware
by Leroy on Fri 18th Sep 2009 12:09 UTC in reply to "RE: Music player to malware"
Leroy Member since:
2006-07-06

I had installed it in the past. But after noticing how it assumed I owned an iPod or needed Bonjour, I uninstalled it. iTunes just made my system go slower. Most applications give you a choice of options to install.

And by the way I did use a Mac for 5 years.

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RE: Music player to malware
by sultanqasim on Thu 17th Sep 2009 19:35 UTC in reply to "Music player to malware"
sultanqasim Member since:
2006-10-28

iTunes isn't malware. It has it's flaws, but it isn't a bad program; at least on mac. It takes one second to start (in SL), and flips through my music with blazing speed. Even on my old iBook, it's fairly fast once loaded (loading takes about 3 secs on it). It's pretty cool to see it's evolution over time.

Now one thing I miss about the old iTunes releases is the old yellow/black spinning CD burn icon. That was such a pretty button :p

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RE: Music player to malware
by moondevil on Thu 17th Sep 2009 20:10 UTC in reply to "Music player to malware"
moondevil Member since:
2005-07-08

Couldn't agree more. I also don't find it anything special.

On my early anti-Microsoft days, my main player was Winamp, but since Media Player 11 got out, it has become my main media application.

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MusicMatch Jukebox
by robojerk on Thu 17th Sep 2009 22:38 UTC
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2006-01-10

I liked SoundJam MP, but then I switched to Windows at the time and met MusicMatch Jukebox. It totally blew me away with it's awesomeness. Most solid music management/player of the time and still would probably be my favorite music app if Yahoo! hadn't destroyed it.

It's features maybe in other players today but MMJB just did them better. Super tagging was near flawless, folder watch (for music on home server).

My conspiracy side believe someone had Yahoo buy the app then dismantle it and drive away all the users.

Sorry, iTunes is okay but it won't sync over a network (home sharing is not the same), no smart tagging. It's pretty much just a store.

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Audion
by 3rdalbum on Fri 18th Sep 2009 10:13 UTC
3rdalbum
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2008-05-26

I briefly used SoundJam, but my favourite player at the time was Audion. It felt more like a Mac application, with heavy use of drag 'n' drop.

iTunes today is a massive bloatware program.

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RE: Audion
by tobyv on Fri 18th Sep 2009 13:34 UTC in reply to "Audion"
tobyv Member since:
2008-08-25

iTunes today is a massive bloatware program.


ITunes: the emacs of mp3 players :-)

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RE[2]: Audion
by memson on Sun 20th Sep 2009 11:10 UTC in reply to "RE: Audion"
memson Member since:
2006-01-01

"iTunes today is a massive bloatware program.


ITunes: the emacs of mp3 players :-) "

iTunes is only "bloatware" if you don't use all the features. If you do use the features, it pretty much "just works". I'd take it any day over WMP, and the last good version of WinAmp was the version that Nullsoft release before being overtaken by AOL (2.9 or something like that?)

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