Mac Power Users, episode I'm Katie Floyd along with me is David. How are you David?

I'm doing well Katie. Thank you for asking.

All about iTunes this episode. I'm afraid this may be the show that never ends.

You never know.

Kind of a broad topic after the very narrow markdown topic we did last episode.

Yeah, but it's an important one to all Mac users because everybody loves their iTunes

and their iPods and iPhones and it seems increasingly to become the hub of everything Apple.

It is becoming more and more the hub of everything Apple and I've I've wondered over the years whether iTunes is really an appropriate name for the software anymore but I guess maybe at some point where we're beyond that and we're stuck with it

I don't think anything's changing anytime soon. Yeah because it's

no longer just about music it's music and movies and books and apps and

and ringtones and TV shows and in PDFs and really what whatever you want to organize in there now.

And I also think that you know people who don't get obsessed with computers have just kind of learned at this point that if they have an iPad or an iPod they manage it through iTunes and if you tried to change that

It's a world of hurt. Yeah, it would collectively blow all their minds. So I think we're here. I wish it was a little more efficient. It seems to me like one of the

sluggier applications on the max sometimes.

Well, and there seems to be a lot of bloat in iTunes.

If you've ever had a download of iTunes update, you know, it's several hundred megabytes,

and I think it's even worse if you're doing it on the PC.

Yeah, but you know, there are some tricks to iTunes. So let's get started with them.

Okay. Let's talk about the iTunes library because there's this iTunes

application that Apple will regularly update it. It used to be part of I life and now it's just this free-for-all

standalone application. I don't even think you get it on a CD anymore, do you? It doesn't come in as,

and I guess, I guess the iPod packaging isn't even big enough now to support a CD.

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