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iTunes for Windows

Published October 17th, 2003 in General

iTunes for Windows is released. Get it from Apple or grab it via this torrent (BitTorrent download)

First impressions: Ctrl-W closes the entire application. This is bad. In OS X, it just closes the window and keeps iTunes running and playing. This means I have to keep it in the activity field while running. Slightly annoying.

I’ll toy around a bit with the music sharing; tomorrow I’ll set up an SSH tunnel from school to home and see if I can access my music that way. iTunes only allows music sharing on local subnets; but an SSH tunnel is considered local for all intents and purposes.

Update: Some more impressions.

  • iTunes quits if I right-click the close button. Broken behavior, no Windows applications do that.
  • No always on top. Windows is (duh) windows focused as opposed to the application focus on a Mac; I want always on top for the mini-mode. It iTunes had only used the default Windows widgets instead of the OS X brushed metal appearance, I could use the nVidia drivers to force a window to be always on top.

For something that calls itself “the best Windows app ever” (Apple.com front page as of writing this), it sure is inconsistent with every other Windows app in existence…

More update: I’ve tried the Rendezvous sharing now. It rocks.

I have a Mac here too, and I used to mount my music collection via SMB to access it from my Mac. Now I just need to have iTunes running on my Windows machine, and the Mac sees the entire collection at once via the Rendezvous shared playlist. Rock on.

I want more Rendezvous/Zeroconf applications for Windows!

8 Comments to “iTunes for Windows”  

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  1. 1 Tomas Oct 17th, 2003 at 12:48

    Mini-mode? What mini-mode? There’s a mini-mode?

  2. 2 Johan Svensson Oct 17th, 2003 at 14:41

    You press the Maximize button, which shrinks iTunes down. How’s that for consistence?

  3. 3 Tomas Oct 18th, 2003 at 02:02

    Ah yes, brilliant implementation of the “Restore Down” window list icon. Not.

    Well, the mini-mode is pretty much useless since there is no always-on-top and no minimize-to-tray functionality…

  4. 4 Jabby Oct 20th, 2003 at 00:53

    It toggles between two window states, which is an allowable interface.

  5. 5 Johan Svensson Oct 20th, 2003 at 10:06

    Yes, but it uses the “restore” icon which is reserved for maximized windows. And it doesn’t even have a maximize function.

  6. 6 G Oct 25th, 2003 at 20:37

    This may (or may not) help with your “always on top” request.

  7. 7 anonymous Nov 1st, 2003 at 07:48

    hey just thought you might be interested in powermenu

    it allows you to right click any application in the task bar for always on top/minimize to tray. and also transparency. i like it so maybe you do too?

  8. 8 tay Nov 23rd, 2003 at 10:11

    actually powermenu wont’ work with iTune, lol.

    one more problem with a great app = [

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