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The album view displays a color scheme based on the album artwork. The results vary from good to great, I haven't encountered any poor examples of it's application.

You can see an example here: http://daringfireball.net/misc/2012/12/itunes-11-expanded-vi...

The text, background and highlight colors are based on on the album artwork.

I see plenty of poor ones, but you could attribute at least half of those cases to all the 70s and 80s prog/psych/metal I've got now.

Here is a screenshot utilizing the colors of the album art: http://d.pr/i/st40 (Please don't judge my taste of music ;) As you can see it also removes the border from the album art to blend it with the color.

It's a music manager you're forced to use on Apple hardware. It's awful for everything except automating what music goes on the device for those who don't care about what they listen to.

That's not quite what the poster is asking for.

The poster said:

As someone without iTunes, what does iTunes do now?

Context is very important in understanding human speech.

It's also a store front for buying mp3s.