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Apple's product is the only of the three to remain in operation today (see iTunes Match, below). For streaming services where a person is unable to upload their own music, but is limited to music provided by the service, such as Pandora Radio and Spotify , see Comparison of on-demand streaming music services .
iTunes is a discontinued media player, media library, and mobile device management utility developed by Apple. It was 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, smart playlists.
All current iOS devices can play ALAC encoded files. The open source library libavcodec incorporates both a decoder and an encoder for the ALAC format, which means that media players based on that library (including VLC media player and MPlayer, as well as many media center applications for home theater computers, such as Plex, Kodi, and Boxee) are able to play ALAC files.
Apple's (NAS: AAPL) forthcoming iCloud digital media storage platform will include streaming functionality enabling consumers to access their music library via iOS-based devices, Macs and PCs.
iCloud is also built-in as a backend to many Apple apps and system features, where it can sync users' data and settings. This includes: Apple Books (books, highlights, bookmarks and annotations); Apple Home (settings and paired devices); Apple Music (with a feature called iCloud Music Library); Apple Wallet (passes and credit cards); Phone ...
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 ...
You know about Shared Albums, but the latest iPhone software update comes with iCloud Shared Libraries. With Apple's iOS 16, users can create an entire library to share with friends and loved ones.
Apple TV can also function as a peer-to-peer digital media player, streaming content from iTunes libraries and playing the content over the network. [87] [88] First-generation Apple TVs can stream content from up to five computers or iTunes libraries. Also, five Apple TVs can be linked to the same iTunes library.