Apple today launched iTunes Music Store for both Mac and Windows users.
The new iTunes Music Store offers Windows users the same online music store that Mac users have had—with the same music catalog, the same personal use rights and the same 99 cents-per-song pricing. Since its launch six months ago, music fans have purchased and downloaded more than 13 million songs from the iTunes Music Store. With music from all five major music companies and over 200 independent music labels, the iTunes Music Store catalog is growing every day and will offer more than 400,000 songs by the end of October.
“The iTunes Music Store has revolutionized the way people legally buy music online, and now it’s available to tens of millions more music lovers with iTunes for Windows,†said Steve Jobs, Apple’s CEO. “While our competitors haven’t even come close to matching our first generation, we’re already releasing the second generation of the iTunes Music Store for Mac and Windows.â€
Apple offers the combination of the iTunes digital jukebox software, the iTunes Music Store and the iPod digital music player, providing music lovers with an experience for buying, managing and listening to their digital music collections anywhere. Windows iPod users can now use their iPod with the iTunes digital jukebox software and enjoy the digital music experience on any platform. iTunes for Windows includes all the same features that made it the digital jukebox software for the Mac—a free download with no hidden charges for extra features, MP3 and pristine quality AAC encoding from audio CDs, Smart Playlists, over 250 free Internet radio stations, and the ability to burn custom playlists to CDs and MP3 CDs, burn content to DVDs to back-up an entire music collection and share music between computers via Rendezvous over any network, cross-platform.
