Tunes U was also merged with the podcasts section. On September 2. 2, 2. Apple released a special fork of i. Tunes 1. 2. 6. 3. App Store for enterprise customers, while adding support for i. OS 1. 1 and mac. OS High Sierra. HistoryeditSound. Jam MP, developed by Bill Kincaid and released by Casady Greene in 1. Tunes when Apple purchased it in 2. Jeff Robbin, Kincaid, and Dave Heller moved to Apple as part of the acquisition, where they continue to work today as the softwares original developers. They simplified Sound. Jams user interface, added the ability to burn CDs, and removed its recording feature and skin support. On January 9, 2. 00. Tunes 1. 0 was released at Macworld San Francisco. Originally a Mac OS 9 only application, i. Tunes began to support Mac OS X when version 2. Pod. 1. 2 Version 3 dropped Mac OS 9 support but added smart playlists and a ratings system. In April 2. 00. 3, version 4. Tunes Store then the i. Tunes Music Store in October, version 4. Windows 2. 00. 0 and Windows XP. Introduced at Macworld 2. Pod Shuffle, Version 4. AAC as these devices did not natively support audio encoded in AIFF or Apple Lossless formats, also improving the value proposition of the Shuffles limited flash only storage. Version 7. 0 introduced gapless playback and Cover Flow in September 2. In March 2. 00. 7, i. Tunes 7. 1 added support for Windows Vista,1. Windows 2. 00. 0 version. The Full The Rain Children Movie. Tunes lacked support for 6. Windows until the 7. January 1. 6, 2. 00. Tunes is supported under any 6. Windows Vista, although the i. Tunes executable is still 3. The 6. 4 bit versions of Windows XP and Windows Server 2. Apple, but a workaround has been devised for both operating systems. Version 8. 0 added Genius playlists, grid view, and a new default visualizer. Tunes 9 added Homeshare, enabling automatic updating of purchased items across other computers on the same subnet and offers a new i. Tunes Store UI. Genius Mixes were added, as well as improved app synchronization abilities, extending the i. Pod Shuffle 1. 28 kbits down convert feature to all of Apples AAC capable devices. It also adds i. Tunes LPs to the store, which provides additional media with an album. Apple added i. Tunes Extras as well to the store, which adds content usually reserved for films on DVD and Blu ray discs. Both i. Tunes LPs and Extras use web standards HTML, Java. Script and CSS. 2. Media managementedit. Tunes includes visualizers. Shown is a visualizer first delivered with i. Tunes 8, including black orbs and moving specks of light. Tunes acts as a front end for Apples Quick. Time media framework. Officially, it is required in order to manage the audio data of an i. Pod, i. Phone, or i. Pad, although alternative software does exist. Users can organize their music into playlists within one or more libraries, edit file information, record Compact Discs, copy files to a digital audio player, purchase music and videos through its built in music store i. Tunes Store, download free podcasts, back up songs onto a CD or DVD, run a visualizer to display graphical effects in time to the music, and encode music into a number of different audio formats. In addition, users are able to add PDF files to their library. The PDFs can be synchronized with and read on several devices except the regular i. Pod. 2. 52. 6 i. Tunes 8. Preferences window. For example, i. Tunes once gave users the option to display arrows beside the selected songs title, artist, album, and genre that link directly to the i. Tunes Store. These arrows are no longer removable, except through the direct editing of a preferences file. Tunes keeps track of songs by creating a virtual library, allowing users to access and edit a songs attributes. These attributes, known as metadata, are stored in a binary library file called i. Tunes Library, which uses a proprietary file format ITL. It caches information like artist and genre from the audio formats tag capabilities the ID3 tag, for example and stores i. Tunes specific information like play count and rating. Tunes typically reads library data only from this file. A second file can also be created if users activate a preference the i. Tunes Music Library. Tunes is changed. It uses an XML format, allowing third party apps to access the library information including play count, last played date, and rating, which are not standard fields in the ID3v. Apples own i. DVD, i. Movie, and i. Photo applications all access the library. If the first file exists but is corrupted, such as by making it zero length, i. Tunes will attempt to reconstruct it from the XML file. Detailed third party instructions regarding this can be found elsewhere. Beginning with i. Tunes 1. 0. 5. 3 this behavior has been changed such that the XML file is not read automatically to recreate the database when the database is corrupted. Rather, the user should load the i. Tunes Library. xml file via File Library Import Playlist. It has also been noted that i. Tunes does not automatically track changes to actual files in the library. If a file is moved or deleted, i. Tunes will display an exclamation mark beside the library entry and the user will need to manually amend the library record. Several third party tools address this problem. Tunes supports ripping from CDs, but not from DVDs. However, in 2. 00. Apple and select film studios introduced i. Tunes Digital Copy, a bonus feature on some DVDs that provides a copy protected and i. Tunes compatible file for select films. Audio file format supportediti. Tunes can read, write and convert between MP3, AIFF, WAV, MPEG 4, AAC and Apple Lossless. Tunes can also play any audio files that Quick. Time can play as well as some video formats, including Protected AAC files from the i. Tunes Store and Audible. Because tag editing and album art is done within i. Tunes and not Quick. Time, these features will not work with these Quick. Time components. As of Snow Leopard, i. Tunes 9 Mac will play HE AAC AAC internet streams. The latest version of i. Tunes WinMac supports importing audio CDs using any of the standard audio file formats i. Tunes supports AIFF, WAV, Apple Lossless, AAC, MP3, with the AAC and MP3 available in constant bit rate CBR or variable bitrate VBR encoding. The Windows version of i. Mad Genius Brings Flappy Bird Back From the Dead on Dreamcast Memory Card. As Segas Hail Mary pass on hardware, the Dreamcast wasnt exactly the miracle the company prayed for. But the long dead console still has a massive fanbase, as a clever hacker who managed to port the infinitely addictive Flappy Bird to the Dreamcasts interactive memory card recently demonstrated. The VMU, or Visual Memory Unit, was an oversized memory card that plugged into the Dreamcasts controllers to store game data, or serve as a second screen for some games using its built in monochrome LCD display. The VMU also featured basic controls, and could be used as a portable gaming device if you refused to just buy a Game Boy. Dmitry Grinbergs hack of the Dreamcast VMU includes developing an ARM chip emulator for the tiny, under powered gaming device, allowing it to run the infamously discontinued mobile game Flappy Birdvery, very slowly. You might assume the game would be much easier running in slow motion, but the controls are equally unresponsive, as this video of Grinberg failing to get past the first obstacle demonstrates. If it were solely up to their creators, both the Dreamcast and Flappy Bird would have likely gone the way of the dinosaurs. But fans, like life, always find a way. You. Tube via Hackaday.