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Before Mac OS X 10.7 Lion, when Dashboard is activated, the user's desktop is dimmed and widgets appear in the foreground. Like application windows, they can be moved around, rearranged, deleted, and recreated (so that more than one of the same Widget is open at the same time, possibly with different settings).
Music (also known as Apple Music, the Apple Music app, and the Music app [1]) [n 1] is a media player application developed for the iOS, iPadOS, macOS, watchOS, visionOS, tvOS, Android, and Windows operating systems by Apple Inc. [2] It can play music files stored locally on devices, as well as stream from the iTunes Store and Apple Music.
Compositions created in Quartz Composer can be played standalone in any QuickTime-aware application [2] (although only on Mac OS X Tiger and later), as a system Screen Saver, [3] as an iTunes Visualizer, from inside the Quartz Composer application, or can be embedded into a Cocoa or Carbon application via supplied user interface widgets.
Ecoute does not require separately importing music or information; it uses the same files that iTunes does. [2] Ecoute is a lightweight player. Features include the ability to search for missing artwork, and customizable themes. Users may share information about the music they are listening to on Facebook, Twitter, and Last.fm. [3]
iTunes is a media player, media library, and mobile device management utility developed by Apple.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 playing content from dynamic, smart playlists.
The data compression software for encoding into ALAC files, Apple Lossless Encoder, was introduced into the Mac OS X Core Audio framework on April 28, 2004, together with the QuickTime 6.5.1 update, thus making it available in iTunes since version 4.5 and above, and its replacement, the Music application. [8]
SoundJam MP is a discontinued MP3 player for classic Mac OS-compatible computers and Rio-compatible hardware synchronization manager that was released in July 1999 and was available until June 2001. Jeff Robbin and Bill Kincaid developed SoundJam MP with assistance from Dave Heller.
Core Audio is a low-level API for dealing with sound in Apple's macOS and iOS operating systems.It includes an implementation of the cross-platform OpenAL. [1]Apple's Core Audio documentation states that "in creating this new architecture on Mac OS X, Apple's objective in the audio space has been twofold.