One of the biggest benefits of using Windows MCE as a PVR is that you get a full fledged media center with it, not just something that is limited to just recording TV. Although it can be used just to capture your favorite TV shows, it can also act like a jukebox for your music collection, be an on-screen photo album to showcase your pictures, and do much more.Out of some of the uses mentioned above, the digital jukebox is one of the more popular ones, and MCE is often used as a replacement for other audio playing programs. Unfortunately it couldn't replace iTunes due to the fact that any purchased through iTunes was required to play through iTunes, up until now.
MCE Tunes is a paid plugin which will allow you to not only allows you to play your iTunes bought music through MCE, but it will also synchronize to iTunes daily to make sure that your library is up to date. The only requirements for this to work are that you have Media Center Edition Rollup 2 installed, iTunes 6.x or greater installed, and that the MCE device is authorized for the iTunes store.
As I mentioned above, this plugin is not free, but it will only set you back about $30. And although there are ways to circumvent the iTunes copy protection, this plugin doesn't break the DRM and according to the website is completely legal. Check out www.mcetunes.com for more information.
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