iTunes is one of the greatest, if not the greatest music player for your computer. For over 7 years, iTunes has been improving itself, and having amazing features that make listening to your music so much easier and cooler. They made it really user friendly so you can do many easy things, like burn CD’s or find what song you are looking for.

Like it was said before, iTunes has some pretty amazing features; which of these features however are the most underused. You would be surprised at what exactly you can do on iTunes that you may not know you could do.

1. Browser

You may not have known that your iTunes had a browser did you? Well this is great for really finding the song you want. Maybe you want to listen to only acoustic music, and just from certain people. The browser on iTunes will sort all your music to the mood you are in.

2. Equalizer

If I ever wanted to be a DJ, I wouldn’t spend money on all that music software, I think iTunes would work just fine. With equalizer you can fully customize how your music sounds; so maybe you want to really emphasize the guitar or maybe pump up the bass.

3. Rating

Rating is really helpful when you want a good song to listen to. Some people organize their music by Artist or Song Name, but I organize it by Song Rating. This way I know where all the songs that I usually listen to are, and not the ones that I do not really listen to. If you have a lot of songs, and do not want to go through every single song, a great program that does it all for you is AutoRate. They rate your songs really accurately too.

4. Smart Playlists

Maybe you want a folder of just Frank Sinatra or the Beetles. Why should you have to add every single song at a time or whenever you add a new song to your library? When you have a Smart Playlist, it will do it all for you. You can customize the playlist for whatever you want, based off rating, how many times the song was played, you name it.

5. Album View/Cover Flow

Now, the main library should always be in List View (which it usually is); however you can spice up your library for the smaller folders and playlists. Maybe you have a playlist of many different artist, you can look through your folder in Album View or Cove Flow. Doing this will really help your library look a lot cooler.

6. MiniStore

Since iTunes has one of the largest music stores on the web, you can almost download any band and song that you want. Maybe you are getting sick of your music, and want to find new music. Well by using the mini store, you can do just that. With MiniStore, you can see what other songs are played by the Artist, what other Albums they have, and what other Artist’s people bought with the same music taste as you.

7. Change Columns

Now, I am sure you are like me, and do not care what album it is from or what genre it is. What I care about mostly is the name of the song, the artist who sings it, the rating it has, and the number of times it has been played. Now you can add many columns to your iTunes library, which will cause your library to stretch. So you can organize your columns so the most important ones are what you see first.