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ITunes is a fantastically fully-featured piece of software, but it can easily frustrate. So we've found six great add-ons you can use with iTunes for OS X.
By 2007-08-14 00:02:04 UTC Apple launched last week, allowing you to post your iTunes info to blogs and social networks. We thought it would be a good opportunity to round up all the services that let you extend and customize iTunes, as well as sharing your music with your friends. Desktop Applications - A Mac OS X only application for making it so you can wake-up to your favorite playlist via your computer. An automated backup service of your entire iTunes library to a remote server of your choosing. Currently Mac only. Built for Mac OS X, gives you a mini-controller with numerous hot keys, downloads album covers, support for iChat and much more. Monitors your play history, compares it to other users and makes suggestions of tracks you may like, and suggests free downloads from their library.
For Mac and Windows. Aids in managing your iTunes library, cleaning out dead tracks, making a playlist for each album, exporting playlists, and more. For Windows only. Control your iTunes by integrating controls into the chat programs X-Chat Aqua, mIRC, Adium, X-Chat Windows, Colloquy, and IRCTunes Forum. Works with Mac and Windows. A Windows Vista enabled iTunes remote control that gives you volume control, album art download, fade between songs and more more. A remote control for your iTunes, runs in your Windows Vista sidebar.
Gives you full control over iTunes with just using hotkey combinations. Windows XP and Vista only. Allows playlist export, eases moving your library from one drive to another while preserving data such as play counts. Gives you a graphical interface for iTunes that resembles an iPod. Helps you create a playlist based on your mood, works with both Windows and Mac. Lets you browse your playlists on your local network or over the Internet, play the songs right in your browser via a Flash player.
For Mac & Windows. Software that will analyze your library noting each song's BPM (Beats Per Minute) and then create playlists based on that. If you have the lyrics stored with your songs, this Mac widget will display them. If you don't have them, the widget will search online databases for them. Lets you control iTunes from the menu bar so you don't have to switch applications, customize your menus to suit your needs. Miscellaneous - A Firefox extension that gives you control over your iTunes directly from your browser window.
Three different tools to display on your website in various configurations. Show off your purchases, reviews, or your favorites.
A Facebook app to show your friends what you are currently listening to. Listen to your own iTunes library from work, home or anywhere so long as your main computer is on, allowing you to not have to copy your music to multiple computers. Works with Mac & Windows.
WordPress Plugins - A plugin for WordPress that will display a current playlist from your iTunes at the bottom of a post. Displays your latest-played iTunes tracks on your blog. Displays what's playing in your iTunes along with the artist, album and more customizable information. Display your currently-playing song on your WordPress-powered blog. Yahoo Widgets - An iTunes remote control that looks just like a gen 5/5.5 white iPod. For Mac & Windows.
We've all gotten music files with info that doesn't display quite correctly when you load it. This widget helps you edit the meta data on your files and make sure your artists, album titles and more are all in shape. Mac & Windows compatible. Tons of features, seven ways to sort your albums, add albums to your desktop for quick access and more. Windows only. A remote control for iTunes that will display your existing album art, searches iTunes and Amazon if you're missing it.
Works with Mac and Windows. Allows you to show/hide your iTunes, play your playlists, set to shuffle/repeat and more. Windows only. A widget that allows you to rate your songs using the five-star scale on the fly. For Mac and Windows. Turns your iTunes into an alarm clock.
Works with Mac and Windows. Stays hidden most of the time and only pops up when a new song begins to show you the track and a thumbnail of the album cover. Windows only.