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Apple's proprietary digital media player application. Questions should be related to programs working with iTunes. Tech support questions are off-topic.

iTunes is a proprietary digital media player application, used for playing and organizing digital music and video files. The application is also an interface to manage the contents on Apple's iPod and iPhone lines, as well as the iPad.

iTunes can connect to the iTunes Store to purchase and download music, music videos, television shows, iPod Games, Audiobooks, Podcasts, movies and movie rentals (not available in all countries), and Ringtones (only available on iPhone and iPod Touch 4th Generation). It is also used to download Apps from the App Store for the iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad.

iTunes app can be freely downloaded from here.

iTunes was introduced by Apple Inc. on January 9, 2001. iTunes 11 is the most recent version of iTunes, available for Mac OS X v10.6.8 or later, as well as Windows XP or later.

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How can I pass an argument to a PowerShell script?

There's a PowerShell script named itunesForward.ps1 that makes iTunes fast forward 30 seconds: $iTunes = New-Object -ComObject iTunes.Application if ($iTunes.playerstate -eq 1) { $iTunes.PlayerPosition = $iTunes.PlayerPosition + 30 } It is…
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Images can't contain alpha channels or transparencies

Apple has released new version of iTunes Connect & I got an error message when I tried to set Screenshots on itunes connect for my app. "Images can't contain alpha channels or transparencies."
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How does the algorithm to color the song list in iTunes 11 work?

The new iTunes 11 has a very nice view for the song list of an album, picking the colors for the fonts and background in function of album cover. Anyone figured out how the algorithm works?
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Application Loader stuck at "Authenticating with the iTunes store" when uploading an iOS app

We have been trying to submit an app to the iTunes store using Application Loader for three days and keep getting stuck at the "Authenticating with the iTunes store" step. We have read many forums (including stackoverflow) and tried what was…
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ERROR ITMS-9000: "Redundant Binary Upload. There already exists a binary upload with build version '1.0' for train '1.0'"

I am trying to upload my build on iTunes Connect via Xcode 5.1.1 but it is continuously showing that it is loading and app is not getting uploaded. So I have tried uploading with Application Loader but its showing the below error: ERROR ITMS-9000:…
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'Missing recommended icon file - The bundle does not contain an app icon for iPhone / iPod Touch of exactly '120x120' pixels, in .png format'

I submitted an app update, but I have received an email telling me this error has occurred: Missing recommended icon file - The bundle does not contain an app icon for iPhone / iPod Touch of exactly '120x120' pixels, in .png format How can I fix…
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Find the number of downloads for a particular app in apple appstore

I need to do a market research on specific type of apps. so is there a way for me to know the download count of the app / any app. Is there a way to find the number of downloads for a particular app in the iTunes App Store.
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ITunes review URL and iOS 7 (ask user to rate our app) AppStore show a blank page

Does anybody knows if the technique used to ask the user to rate our app and open for him the App Store directly on the rating page is still working on iOS 7 ? I used to open this url from my app…
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Install IPA with iTunes 12

I have an IPA signed for ad-hoc distribution. I can install it fine with Flash Builder. I'd like to install a release version via iTunes 12, though. Dragging it onto: The device name The app section The app list The Home Screens section ...does…
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What is `mt=8` in iTunes links for the App Store?

Does anyone know the significance of the mt parameter in App Store Links? Sample link: http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewSoftware?id=337319445&mt=8 It seems that any value will work, like mt=0, mt=999, etc.
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Application Loader: "Cannot proceed with delivery: an existing transporter instance is currently uploading this package"

I have been unable to overcome this error in Application Loader. I've quit, restarted, tried different computers - it's like the server is hung up on an op that I never initiated and it won't time out. Has anyone seen it before and beaten it?
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How to decrypt an encrypted Apple iTunes iPhone backup?

I've been asked by a number of unfortunate iPhone users to help them restore data from their iTunes backups. This is easy when they are unencrypted, but not when they are encrypted, whether or not the password is known. As such, I'm trying to figure…
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How to delete app Build in New iTunes Connect Site?

I want to upload my app's new version on iTunes connect, but I can't submit it as I mention here. Now I want to delete uploaded build and upload new build with save version, but I get an error as shown in the screenshot. Find Solution Here you…
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Is there a way since (iOS 7's release) to get the UDID without using iTunes on a PC/Mac?

I'm developing an app for my company and we're going through the process of slowly letting people into the "beta" by adding their iPads to the company's iOS Dev Center accounts. From there we do an ad hoc build for local Intranet distribution. At my…
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A server with the specified hostname could not be found

When I try to submit my app on the App Store through Xcode I got this error. A server with the specified hostname could not be found. Is this temporary error at Apple or something to do with Xcode? Is anyone else facing this problem?
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