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Now you will be able to download movies to your iPod. Steve Jobs announced that iTunes is now in the movie rental business. He announced this at the MacWorld San Francisco 2008 keynote address.more->

The partners in this new business venture are Touchstone, Mirimax, Lionsgate, Newline, Fox, MGM, Warner Bos., Disney, Paramount, Sony, and Universal Studios. [...]

You can use your iPod to do more than just play music, store photos and watch videos. Your iPod comes with a large amount of storage that can also be used to store files of many types.

To do this, you will first need to setup the preferences in iTunes properly. To do this [...]

The new Zune MP3 player brought excitement to the MP3 player market. But apparently Zune sales are not so good, and the fact that iTunes was clogged with four times as many consumers this Christmas compared to last Christmas tells you something about who is going to be king for a while.

Consumers who [...]

First, a short introduction and a necessary reference to Hymn—Hymn is an app that strips the DRM (Apple calls it FairPlay) of the tracks you bought from the iTMS—only drawback? You need iTunes 5 for it work.

iTunes 6 users can now have a look at Igor Skochinsky’s QTFairUse6 [via]—a tool that’s supposed to do the [...]

Question: what happens when you rate a song on the iPod, rate it on iTunes differently, and sync the two? Answer: The iTunes rating prevails even if it took place before the iPod rating. (For the record, playcounts are recorded correctly, since both the extra playbacks on the iPod and on iTunes are added, regardless [...]

It all depends on whether or not you let iTunes manage your music library:

If you do, then moving your music while preserving library data (playlists, play counts, etc.) is pretty trivial and documentation provided by Apple has got you covered (check “Part 1” in the guide that follows).
If you don’t (which is the user group [...]

Streaming media charts, based on unique users: iTunes to pass RealPlayer by mid-2006 with just under 30M users, while still being second to Microsoft’s Windows Media Player with 80M users. Also:

RealPlayer’s userbase has remained steady over the last three year with 28M unique users.
Thanks to the built-in podcasting support “iTunes users tune in for an [...]

How-to: rip your DVDs so they’re properly reproduced on the Zen Vision:M: “This guide uses DVD Decrypter and AutoGK which is free open source software so it will cost you nothing.” Read our presentation of the Zen Vision:M.
From the wicked cool department—How-to: turn your wireless mouse into an iTunes remote: this is great. Using a [...]

iTunes MiniStore now disabled by default: a wise from Apple’s part, and nice to see they responded so quickly to the users feedback. Remember that the MiniStore feature and its default “On” mode, introduced in iTunes 6.02, raised some privacy issues. (Also: my apologies for the barrage of Apple-related news today.)