iTunes Review

Full iTunes Review

Summary

iTunes is a popular choice today for music downloads, MP3 playback and general media file management. However, iTunes is a resource demanding application, often slowing down a PC's processes to a frustrating crawl. Thus, there are much better choices on the market today for anyone looking to download MP3s or manage their iPod or iPhone's music collection.

Resource Demanding and System Stability Problems

iTunes is a popular choice today in the online music download world. With the rise of iPhone and iPod usage amongst consumers, this popular software from Apple has received impressive attention. Regretfully though, not all attention towards iTunes has been favorable.

With popularity inevitably comes criticism. And iTunes is markedly no stranger to criticism. While Apple has produced a media management software as cool as its popular iPhone or iPod, it has yet to fix the very frustrating set of problems systemically embedded in iTunes since its early inception.

First of all and as is very well known, iTunes is resource demanding. The software itself, iTunes 8.2, requires a whopping 200MB of available disk space and 512MB of RAM to run properly. That's more than enough to run some video games. Bottom line, you'll need a powerful Windows computer (or a Mac) to run iTunes smoothly or expect severe system slowdowns.

Secondly, because iTunes is so demanding on your computer's processing and memory resources, you'll often be frustrated by the fact that it will not only slow down your system's running applications, but will also often crash them.

The list of system stability problems associated with iTunes is quite long. Any online forum search will quickly reveal that. And until Apple finally fixes these systemic issues related to iTunes, any further updates would at best be aesthetic.

A Popular Choice, But There Is Better

We recognize that iTunes is a really popular choice amongst consumers today looking to download music from the Internet. We also recognize that many consumers are not only tired of iTunes, but are also bitterly frustrated with its well-known problems and lack of support.

Over the last few years, if you were an iPod user there was never any good iTunes alternative to end your headaches. There have been courageous attempts, but never any real contender. Today, that is no longer true. Because consumers were simply tired of dealing with iTunes and demanded better from other companies, there emerged on the market in the last year, some very good iTunes alternative for iPod and iPhone users. Amongst them, award-winning eTunesMusic.com is arguably the best choice.

Important: It should be noted that this review was written according to test results conducted on Windows-based machine, and does not represent the performance of iTunes on Mac OS X.