Starting in 2005, Apple expanded on the core music features of iTunes with support for digital video, podcasts, e-books, and mobile apps purchased from the iOS App Store. With the 2003 addition of the iTunes Store for purchasing and downloading digital music, and a version of the program for Windows, it became a ubiquitous tool for managing music and configuring other features on Apple's line of iPod media players, which extended to the iPhone and iPad upon their introduction. Originally announced by Apple CEO Steve Jobs on January 9, 2001, iTunes' original and main focus was music, with a library offering organization and storage of Mac users' music collections. Options for sound optimizations exist, as well as ways to wirelessly share the iTunes library. Developed by Apple Inc., it is used to purchase, play, download, and organize digital multimedia, on personal computers running the macOS and Windows operating systems, and can be used to rip songs from CDs, as well as play content with the use of dynamic, smart playlists. A lot of the scripts being developed are dependent on rated libraries, so the more access I have to choosing a rating is the better for me.ITunes ( / ˈ aɪ t( j) uː n z/) is a software program that acts as a media player, media library, mobile device management utility, and the client app for the iTunes Store.

Embedding the visualisation in the microplayer would be cool too, with maybe a mouse over to show album art (if any). Maybe some time in the summer, if all my travels fall through.

I should/could learn to do it myself, I know, but I am writing English essays and short stories for school. I want to be able to rate from the miniplayer, and I want to have a nice and sleek looking, unbranded black monolith. I really like the Black iPod miniplayer, but I would like it more without the circle around the controls that brands it as an iPod clone, and also the UI of the iPod is not necessary for my taste. Something closer to the black monolith from 2001, that also display album art and allows for rating changes (Yellow Tint lets me pick the number of stars, and I thought the iPodTouch miniplayer was going to have that option too).

I'd like a miniplayer that is more ambiguous than a physical mp3 player graphic.

Foobar2000 skins for itunes users