iTunes is apple trying to catch up with PC's, and look innovative at the same time.

iTunes does the folowing:
rip CD's
encode mp3's
play mp3's
organize collections
ooh. ahh.. visualizations. (how old is cthugha again?)

all of those things you've been doing for quite a while on the other popular OS, oh.. and windows too..

12gig red mk2 -- 080000125