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  2. iTunes - Wikipedia

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    iTunes is a software program that acts as a media player, media library, mobile device management utility, and the client app for the iTunes Store.Developed by Apple Inc., it is used to purchase, play, download and organize digital multimedia on personal computers running the macOS and Windows operating systems, and can be used to rip songs from CDs as well as playing content from dynamic ...

  3. ReplayGain - Wikipedia

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    Sound Check is a proprietary Apple Inc. technology similar in function to ReplayGain. It is available in iTunes and on the iPod. Standard measurement algorithms for broadcast loudness monitoring applications have recently been developed by the International Telecommunication Union (ITU-R BS.1770) and the European Broadcasting Union .

  4. History of iTunes - Wikipedia

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    The iTunes media platform was first released by Apple in 2001 as a simple music player for Mac computers.Over time, iTunes developed into a sophisticated multimedia content manager, hardware synchronization manager and e-commerce platform. iTunes was finally discontinued for new Mac computers in 2019, but is still available and supported for Macs running older operating systems and for Windows ...

  5. Apple Lossless Audio Codec - Wikipedia

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    The Apple Lossless Audio Codec ( ALAC ), also known as Apple Lossless, or Apple Lossless Encoder ( ALE ), is an audio coding format, and its reference audio codec implementation, developed by Apple Inc. for lossless data compression of digital music. After initially keeping it proprietary from its inception in 2004, in late 2011 Apple made the ...

  6. iTunes Store - Wikipedia

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    The iTunes Store is a digital media store operated by Apple Inc. It opened on April 28, 2003, as a result of Steve Jobs ' push to open a digital marketplace for music. As of April 2020, iTunes offered 60 million songs, 2.2 million apps, 25,000 TV shows, and 65,000 films. [needs update] When it opened, it was the only legal digital catalog of ...

  7. Apple Music - Wikipedia

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    Apple Music is an audio and video streaming service developed by Apple Inc. Users select music to stream to their device on-demand, or they can listen to existing playlists. The service also includes the sister internet radio stations Apple Music 1, Apple Music Hits, and Apple Music Country, which are broadcast live to over 200 countries 24 ...

  8. Sound check (disambiguation) - Wikipedia

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    Soundcheck (radio program), a talk radio program about music and the arts; Soundcheck (song), a 2016 single by Welsh indie band Catfish and the Bottlemen; Sound Check (iTunes feature), a volume normalization system in iTunes; See also. Mr. Shovel's Check One Two; Mic check (phrase)

  9. Advanced Audio Coding - Wikipedia

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    Advanced Audio Coding is designed to be the successor of the MPEG-1 Audio Layer 3, known as MP3 format, which was specified by ISO / IEC in 11172-3 ( MPEG-1 Audio) and 13818-3 ( MPEG-2 Audio). Blind tests in the late 1990s showed that AAC demonstrated greater sound quality and transparency than MP3 for files coded at the same bit rate.