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I just bought the Lord of the Rings soundtrack for my wife off of the iTunes Music Store… Just had to post about how great it is! All I had to do was search for Lord of the Rings, click Buy Album, and within two minutes it had downloaded all 19 songs — an hour and nineteen minutes worth of music. After that was done I plugged in my iPod and in a few seconds I had the whole album in my pocket ready to take with me. I then made a Lord of the Rings playlist and burned it to a CD as an archive and so my wife could listen to it in the car when I had the iPod. The whole process took less than ten minutes, which is 5 minutes faster than I could have made it to the store. I’m amazed again and again at the integration and ease of use the Mac provides.

Another example of this is when you have a song playing in iTunes and then start an audio chat in the iChat program, the Mac automatically pauses the song on iTunes so that the person you are chatting with doesn’t just hear a loud song playing in the background. It’s funny how Microsoft showed something like that in their Athens prototype computer, and seemed to think it was one of the most revolutionary ideas ever. That was back in May and they were showing it as an example of how computers could work in the future. But of course that technology is obviously already available on every single Macintosh computer today. Hooray for Apple!

Oh yeah, the Lord of the Rings soundtrack is good too. :)

Thanks to MichaelP for reminding me about that iChat pausing feature