Music Highlights

Using iTunes it's easy to find radio stations you can listen to for free over the internet. In fact, you're spoiled for choice: there are literally thousands of stations broken down by genres available through iTunes. Just find one you like, minimize iTunes and you'll have your favorite radio station to keep you company throughout the day.

The iTunes Genius is a recent addition to iTunes that helps you to build a playlist by assembling music it thinks you'll like. This playlist is based on the data that iTunes has about your musical tastes and the more you use iTunes, the more information the Genius will have upon which to make recommendations.

Before long, you may have so much media that iTunes that finding the song, movie or TV show you're looking for becomes a chore. Playlists to the rescue! These little container files act like folders on your computer. You can sort your music and videos into numerous different playlists as well as create new playlists easily.

Podcasts are video and audio files that you can download, often for free, and watch on your computer or a media player like the iPod, iPhone, Zune and others. iTunes has an extensive library of video and audio podcasts available. All you need to do is subscribe and these podcasts will be downloaded and synced automatically as new episodes are released.

After searching for and finding the movie, music or TV show you want to purchase, you'll want to look at the price. While the cost of individual items is reasonable and largely universal, the price varies between different types of media. You'll also want to keep an eye out for the elusive "free" tag. More on getting free stuff from iTunes in a future episode.

As soon as you've installed iTunes on your Mac or PC, you can start looking around for movies, music, applications, podcasts and TV shows that are of interest to you. Whether you missed the latest episode of your favourite cop drama or you're looking for the slow song they used to play at every high school dance, you can probably find it in iTunes.

With iTunes you can download single tracks or full albums from your favorite artists, you can buy and rent movies for playback on your computer or iPod / iPhone, you can grab video and audio "podcasts," grab the latest episode of your favorite TV show, get games for your iPod or iPhone and much more. All for a nominal fee or, in some cases, free.

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Any media play can play music, but Winamp Media Player does more. It gives you some cool extras that you can use to enhance your media experience with visualizations, you can even find games, listen to online radio or completely change the look and feel of your Winamp player.

What's the point of having a media player if you can't have it look and feel the way you want it to? Winamp gives you loads of user configurable options so you can make it your own. It's easy to make Winamp look and act the way you want.

What's the point of having a media player if you can't have it look and feel the way you want it to? Winamp gives you loads of user configurable options so you can make it your own. It's easy to make Winamp look and act the way you want.

What's the point of having a media player if you can't have it look and feel the way you want it to? Winamp gives you loads of user configurable options so you can make it your own. It's easy to make Winamp look and act the way you want.

There are times when all of us want to listen to something different. Something we haven't planned or put in a playlist. Enter Winamp Media Player and all of the available online radio stations. There's a wealth of music available out there and it's easy to find and listen to with Winamp.

Why just listen to and watch your own songs and videos when you can listen and watch free stuff online? A good question with a good answer. Winamp Media Player gives you the ability to quickly access online music, video, games and podcasts.