CNET wrote:The man notorious for cracking the DVD code, and Apple's FairPlay DRM, is looking to make a legitimate business out of his expertise.
Beginning Tuesday, the first product from his company, DoubleTwist Ventures, will enter open beta. Called DoubleTwist, it's a free desktop client that essentially allows any kind of music, photo, or video file to be shared between a long list of portable media players, and through Web-based social networks.
Instead of iTunes songs or videos taken with a Nokia N95 remaining locked on the phone, DoubleTwist software allows for dragging, dropping, and syncing of different media formats no matter the device.
The idea, according to DoubleTwist founder and CEO Monique Farantzos, is that media files should be more like e-mail. It shouldn't matter what service you create the file in, or on what type of hardware, it all should work together seamlessly, she says.
4) Liberating your iTunes music purchases
During installation you'll be asked if you want to liberate purchased songs. Make sure this box is checked. doubleTwist will automatically convert songs to MP3 after the installation process is complete.
If you did not check the liberate your songs checkbox during installation, you can do so at any time by clicking on the checkmark button in the notifications window in the "home" tab:
4) Liberating your iTunes music purchases
During installation you'll be asked if you want to liberate purchased songs. Make sure this box is checked. doubleTwist will automatically convert songs to MP3 after the installation process is complete.
If you did not check the liberate your songs checkbox during installation, you can do so at any time by clicking on the checkmark button in the notifications window in the "home" tab:
Liberation!
What's itunes?
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iTunes is a digital media player application, introduced by Apple on January 8, 2001 at the Macworld Expo in San Francisco,[2] for playing and organizing digital music and video files. The program is also an interface to manage the contents on Apple's popular iPod digital media players as well as the iPhone. Additionally, iTunes can connect to the iTunes Store via the internet to purchase and download digital music, music videos, television shows, iPod games, audiobooks, various podcasts, feature length films (available only in the USA), Movie Rentals and Ringtones.
iTunes is available as a free download for Mac OS X, Windows Vista, and Windows XP from Apple's website. It is also bundled with all Macs, and some HP and Dell computers. Older versions are available for Mac OS 9, OS X 10.0-10.2, and Windows 2000. iTunes is not available for other operating systems.
