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Wednesday, Sep 10, 2008 1:00am
First Look: iTunes 8, digital media player
Every Mac comes with iTunes, but Windows users can also download and install a free copy of iTunes as well. The new 8.0 version of iTunes coincides with Apple’s latest announcement of iPod models, although you don’t need an iPod to take advantage of its handful of new features that makes this version even more fun to use for playing music and video.

The most obvious new feature is a Grid View option, which offers another way to organize your music. Grid View works by grouping songs from the same album within the artwork of that particular album. Now if you want to search for a song to play, just skim through your album covers displayed in rows and columns. Double-click on an album cover and you’ll see all songs that came from that album. Grid View mimics the old fashion method of browsing through album covers to pick out the songs you want to hear.