myTunes is a program that allows Windows

Microsoft Windows

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 users to download

Uploading and downloading

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 music from an iTunes

ITunes

iTunes is a media player computer program, used for playing, downloading, and organizing digital music and video files on desktop computers. It can also manage contents on iPod, iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad....

 music share over a network, circumventing restrictions in iTunes that only allow streaming music

Streaming media

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. The software is widely popular on college

College

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 campus

Campus

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es across the U.S. It was developed by Bill Zeller

Bill Zeller

William Paul "Bill" Zeller was an American computer programmer who was best known for creating the MyTunes application...

 at Trinity College

Trinity College (Connecticut)

Trinity College is a private, liberal arts college in Hartford, Connecticut. Founded in 1823, it is the second-oldest college in the state of Connecticut after Yale University. The college enrolls 2,300 students and has been coeducational since 1969. Trinity offers 38 majors and 26 minors, and has...

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myTunes development has now been brought to a halt. ZDNetUK News.com reported on 9 March 2004, "the popular software has all but vanished from the Net, and its programmer's sites have gone dark. But this time, it's not the doing of an angry record industry or a conflict-averse Apple. Trinity College sophomore Bill Zeller, who wrote the program in less than two weeks of off-time coding last year, says he simply lost the source code in a catastrophic computer crash." Zeller said: "I was about to release the second version, when I lost everything. I may put it back online, but there won't be any updates. I don't want to rewrite it." Subsequently, an entirely rewritten version, myTunes Redux, was released, which again operated successfully until once more disabled in iTunes version 7.

History

• On October 16, 2003, Apple Computer
  Apple Computer
  Apple Inc. is an American multinational corporation that designs and markets consumer electronics, computer software, and personal computers. The company's best-known hardware products include the Macintosh line of computers, the iPod, the iPhone and the iPad...
  
  released a version of its iTunes software for Windows.
• On October 26, 2003, now-late William Zeller released the first version of his software, myTunes .
• On March 9, 2004, it is reported that the source code for myTunes is lost.
• On April 28, 2004, Apple Computer released version 4.5 of iTunes, which disabled myTunes and other similar programs.
• On September 5, 2004, Bill Zeller released myTunes Redux which overcame Apple Computer's restrictions and added various other features.
• On September 27, 2006, Apple Computer released version 7 of iTunes, again disabling the current version of myTunes.