Store all your songs in iTunes. Download music from the store in high-quality AAC format for playback in iTunes or iPod. If you started transferring tracks from your CDs to your PC using Windows Media Player, that’s okay. As long they’re in an unprotected format, iTunes lets you convert them easily.
AAC, for Advanced Audio Coding, is a big part of the MPEG-4 specification. While iTunes compresses audio much more efficiently than older formats (like MP3, which iTunes still supports, by the way) AAC delivers quality rivaling that of uncompressed CD audio. You can also save your CDs in iTunes using the new Apple Lossless encoder, which stores music at the highest quality but at about half the space of uncompressed files.
The iTunes jukebox includes a Music Sharing feature that uses Apple’s Bonjour technology to give you remote streaming access to your personal music library from any room in your house. Let’s say, for instance, that you have thousands of AAC and MP3 music files stored on a Mac or Windows computer in your home office.
The iTunes software works so smoothly on both platforms that you can share music with any combination of Macs and Windows PCs on a local area network regardless of whether you’re running iTunes on a Mac or PC. And you won’t have to manually configure anything, either, because iTunes automatically senses when other computers on a local network are also running the software.
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