Silicon Valley - Dan Gillmor's eJournal - iTunes Music Store, a Tryout The best feature, of course, is breaking the industry's album mentality into what customers have wanted for years: individual tunes. (I'm of two minds on this, having recorded two albums when I was playing music for a living (a long time ago, sigh). One of the albums was designed as a complete work, and I believe it holds up that way and should be listened to as a single piece. The other had several tunes I would cheerfully omit if I were downloading it today. Of course, it's the customer's choice, not mine, right?)

I have been playing with the new iTunes and Apple's Music Store for the past few days. So far I'm liking it. One feature that I find interesting is the ability to share/stream my iTunes library over the net. I can also connect to others. For example look at the screen garb image to the left. You will notice that I am connected to a co-workers iTunes library at work and also to another iTunes user out on the net. We are sharing our music, but not by copying, but by streaming it to each other...