MacPower users episode 122, iTunes. Welcome back to another episode of the Mac Power Users

podcast. I'm Katie Floyd alongside with David Sparks. Are we here?

Third time's a charm, David.

Yeah, I'm here. Let's do this.

All right, we've had a few little Skype issues already,

so we've got a delayed start podcasting,

but we are roaring to go and ready to talk about iTunes.

And this is a subject that we've talked about a couple of times on MacPower users.

But we've got a brand new iTunes 11.

There's been a lot of changes.

We've had a lot of questions, so it seems like a good

time to go back and do a comprehensive overview and review of iTunes.

The Mac Power Users way.

It feels to me like iTunes is Apple's user interface

playground. It seems like when they want to try something new and

different it always seems like iTunes is one of the first places they will do things like I

I believe iTunes was the first place where we got all the gray icons

you know when they were trying to switch this monochramatic theme

now we've got a new version of iTunes. It's got colored icons again. It just over the years it's it has

evolved quite a bit. In fact, there's a great article that Jackie Chang did over at Ars Technica, where it's called iTunes

through the ages, I'm going to put it in the show notes, where she shows the

the iterations of the user interface of iTunes from version 1.0 to 11 and it's really quite

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