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Apple Deploys Web-Based 'iTunes Preview' Content
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This is no doubt a response to Google's new music search features. See this post on the Google Blog from October 28, 2009:
Google: "Making Search More Musical
If people start using Google's search engine to find audio content (as Google hopes they will), then Apple wants iTunes to be in the search results too.
We may have a winner... this is my thoughts exactly. Why leave out the biggest internet store! Lets have all of our stuff on the list also!!!!
This has been out for a while, I've used it before. Kinda neat how they managed to keep the play button even in the browser.
I noticed this the other day while I was testing links on my webpage. Pretty cool I must say. It helps make everything look a little more thought out.
you've been offered several good ways to get around not being able to bookmark. None of the suggested solutions help if a person is trying to narrow down the versions of a single song to one version for purchase.
There can often be two dozen versions of a song; some may be different instrumentals and some by male or female vocalists. Being able to tag those being considered would help the sorting process a lot.
Damn, is iTunes really that large? I never paid attention when downloading
It is when Quicktime is included with it.
When I came across this last week, I hated it. For me, at an iTunes user, this new page is useless to me and annoying because when I click on the links from the My Alerts emails I get this page and have to click another link to go directly to iTunes. I know, one more click is not a big deal but I understand what they are trying to do (make more money to invest in stores and amazing products ).
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On one hand...almost everyone knows and (is forced to) use iTunes or Quicktime for something or another, so I don't see this this exactly exploding the market.
On the other hand though...would it really kill them to stick real webpages, with real audio, graphical, and text content...with some Flash-powered music preview clips? I mean, it worked for Amazon and that won me as a loyal customer.
Heck, it could still then tie into their accounting system so that people could buy items on their accounts while they're away from their primary computers, and just download through a browser like anything else.
Not that it matters to me; I haven't bought anything from the iTunes store since...oh, about when they released Amazon MP3. I'll take my music in a non-proprietary file wrapper, thanks.
On the other hand though...would it really kill them to stick real webpages, with real audio, graphical, and text content...with some Flash-powered music preview clips? I mean, it worked for Amazon and that won me as a loyal customer.
Heck, it could still then tie into their accounting system so that people could buy items on their accounts while they're away from their primary computers, and just download through a browser like anything else.
Not that it matters to me; I haven't bought anything from the iTunes store since...oh, about when they released Amazon MP3. I'll take my music in a non-proprietary file wrapper, thanks.
It has a category for rap but not metal... WTF? What the heck is going on here? Give a kid a computer and they go gaga over it he he. Synthetic stuff is more popular than real music made and played by real humans... It's TRUE.. the end is coming when this kind of nonsense is in the limelight!
Yeah, go watch them mumble to background sequences... LAME!
What happened to LIVE music?
Yeah, go watch them mumble to background sequences... LAME!
What happened to LIVE music?
I like Amazon's music store a lot but MP3 is a proprietary format, don't kid yourself. That is why Linux distributions typically don't ship with MP3 support out of the box.
No licenses are required to stream or distribute in AAC format and all music in the iTunes store is DRM free and you can easily right click and convert it to MP3 in iTunes. That being said if I didn't have an iPod touch, Amazon MP3 would be my first choice.
Not trying to make a convert here I just like to fix incorrect information.
If I'm understanding what this does correctly, this is great.
Sometimes I'll be browsing a review online and want to hear a sample or read more about it and if you click on the link, it has to open iTunes and after waiting for the store to load, then you can finally get to what you were looking for. This would be a huge time saver if it's all web based.
Sometimes I'll be browsing a review online and want to hear a sample or read more about it and if you click on the link, it has to open iTunes and after waiting for the store to load, then you can finally get to what you were looking for. This would be a huge time saver if it's all web based.
Does This mean Ubuntu support anytime soon?
Apple iTunes is a very nice media orginizer and my sister really wants it on her PC as many other Linux users do, i guess she will have to stick with Places for media until then
Apple iTunes is a very nice media orginizer and my sister really wants it on her PC as many other Linux users do, i guess she will have to stick with Places for media until then
There is a big difference in context. If I click on a track in an 'itunes store preview' page like that, I kind of expect/understand that it'll open the real itunes.
But when I click on an obfuscated link in a blog - eg 'check out XYZs new song' I don't expect it to launch itunes - its just another weblink in a browser.
I bet that they will soon add their 30 second audio previews to this, to match what you now get with Google's search. But I doubt they'd let you make a purchase without the iTunes app though. Maybe at some point in the distant future, if the browser-based-store competition heats up on them.
(The fact that this is just for music in the iTunes store also supports that it is an answer to Google's music search.)
Read the reviews. I guess it is a complete rip-off of another artist?
In any case, I can agree with one common complaint about Owl City. The lyrics really are meaningless, and any vocal talent present is entirely the product of computers. Some of the other songs are utterly horrible. But when I first heard the single, I did enjoy it.