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iTMS Canada Launch Tomorrow?

Porchland said:
"Complete U2" is also there. $149.99 as expected.
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Lots of extra tracks in that baby. I've been listening to U2 since the early 80s and have followed their releases...I think this digital box set kicks ass with lots of nice little gems.
(One example of many: check out "Alex Descends Into Hell For A Bottle Of Milk". Serious fans will remember that the Edge came out with a "solo" project of sorts back in the late 1980s, a soundtrack to the stage version of Stanley Kubrick's "A Clockwork Orange". Nice to see the track resurrected here, as I haven't seen it since 1991, when it was a B-Side on the "The Fly" single).

Makes me wish they'd release this monster in an actual CD box set so I could set my own encoding prefs, but....

Anyway, I tried to buy a few tracks off the Complete U2 and iTMS won't allow it. Yet.
It's online but then, it's not online. Hmm..we're not supposed to know it's there?
Sort of like peeking at Xmas presents before midnight??
 
srobert said:
My Nintendo DS and iTMS Canada in the same week? A happy week for me but sad day for my wallet. *Crossing my fingers*
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iTMS Canada, Nintendo DS, World of Warcraft, and that's not counting Metroid Prime 2 from last week.

It's all or nothing, eh?
 
This is a disaster :)

If iTMS Canada launches there will only be G5 Powerbooks to wish for, what are we going to speculate about now!

Seriously good on Apple if a little late. Just FYI The stores are required by law to be in two languages in Canada. Canadian English and Quebecquois (Very similar to but not the same as French). 4 Years ago I was involved in a web project across the world and Canadian sites had to be dual language or at a minimum the other language version has to launch within 1 year of the launch of the first.
 
joshuawaire said:
In Canada, can't you use peer to peer networks, legally?
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Not illegally. There aren't laws forbidding usage of p2p networks (yet), but that doesn't make it right. It's still stealing.

btw, who would've rated this article negative?
 
coolfactor said:
btw, who would've rated this article negative?
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Good question.
Maybe it's the "Freedom Fries Faction". You know what I mean.
The "nattering nabobs of negativity" who are upset and/or threatened that some of us here in America are looking to Canada as an example of sanity and levity in these radical fundamentalist times we're living in.

I grew up in Alaska, and now I live in Maine. Both states border Canada.
A coincidence?
 
U2 weirdness

A couple weird things about the U2 set: the songs it contains don't (currently) come up in iTunes searches. (Try "U2 crashed" and you won't get "Daddy's Gonna Pay For Your Crashed Car") and Zooropa, while complete in the box set AND available per-song, is still listed by itself as a "partial album," missing track 6. (For the record... not a fan of track 6, I just just don't like the idea of partial albums :) )


mainemike said:
Good question.
Maybe it's the "Freedom Fries Faction".
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:D
 
nagromme said:
A couple weird things about the U2 set: the songs it contains don't (currently) come up in iTunes searches. (Try "U2 crashed" and you won't get "Daddy's Gonna Pay For Your Crashed Car") and Zooropa, while complete in the box set AND available per-song, is still listed by itself as a "partial album," missing track 6. (For the record... not a fan of track 6, I just just don't like the idea of partial albums :) )

:D
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It's weird right now. I guess we have to wait for the "digital dust" to settle.
Methinks Apple iTMS workers are knocking back coffee and prepping everything for tomorrow morning.

It will be good.
 
Wow, that's 3 hours and 40 minutes of just listening to the free previews for The Complete U2
 
sluthy said:
Maybe he just got "semantic" and Symantec mixed up. Quite a few people think "beetle" is spelt "beatle" because of Lennon and Co.

Anyway, here in Australia, I can't even browse anymore. I now get the "Not available in your country yet" message - which is now in a different font (Apple's standard now). When I click "browse a music store" - used to be the - I'm presented with all the different contry orbs and no matter which I click on, I'm sent back to the "not available" screen again. :confused:
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Something is coming, iTMS is still not accessible from Switzerland, either. I think Apple are changing something and therefore temporarily blocked access from non-iTMS countries. Not being able to access iTMS doesn't mean any countries other than Canada and perhaps Ireland will get an iTMS today or anytime soon. In fact, on the eve of the launch of the Euro zone store, iTMS wasn't accessible from Switzerland although there was no Swiss store to be launched.

Anyone from Denmark, Sweden or Norway having the same problem, too? Just wondering :)
 
broken_keyboard said:
You can still get in by clicking on the eyeball...
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That get's me to only the charts section. Not the actual store to browse.
My wife finally got her U2 iPod today. She's so happy, it's her first Apple product. She got the $50 discount coupon for the U2 box set and she's ready to buy. Bring on the store...
 
I like that the U2 banner says "With Digital Booklet." A nice hyperlinked PDF perhaps? It's not clear to me how you even get it. But it's a good trend I hope. I want liner notes with my downloads!

(And as of 6AM EST, no new stores are appearing.)
 
Super Dave said:
My only question, is Sam Roberts' "The Canadian Dream" there? I can't believe they took it out of the album for the American release.

David :cool:
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THEY DID? :(

That's one of the coolest songs on album! S - O - C - I - A - L - I - S - M baby.

Granted, in the 50's in the States, it would have probably gotten Sam locked up in jail. Hmm...
 
Zaty said:
Anyone from Denmark, Sweden or Norway having the same problem, too? Just wondering :)
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I'm in Denmark and I get the same error message when selecting a country. It should be noted that the recently launched European stores can't be called a "EU store" since a large part of the EU is missing, namely Sweden and Denmark (the only old EU member states not using the euro as currency (yet)).
 
~Shard~ said:
That's true - I think Ireland was actually ready to go in many respects quite a while ago (as far as the actual Store goes) but then ran into a bunch of legal issues. I'm hoping for the Irish out there as well, but don't hold your breath just yet!

As for Canada, we're a sure thing. :p ;)
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I have never been so led up the garden path before in my life. I never thought of that but I now remember that I read that exact article in the local press with regards to a last minute hang up for the Irish iTMS, but I took a more optimistic view, it really sounded like it wasn't something too serious.
 
iTMS Norway

Hello

I get the same problem when i try to het in to iTMS from Norway, it says first that it's not availible in my country yet, yhen i click on the link to the iTMS in other countrys and when i click on any of the flags i get to the same country warning.

Bojan from Krajina
Norway
 
Okay, this is weird now, I am an American student living in Ireland. As of 7:30 AM GMT I was able to log into my American iTMS account, and was not given the country warning. As of noon I am unable to access it at all. When I was given the country warning before I was able to click on the American store and shop as usual, now clicking on the American store kicks me back to the country warning ... weird.
 
Does anybody know if there is going to be some kind of anounsment the next days? Some meeting or some release plans?? Some indication of a updated iTMS? I'd relly like to see iTMS in Norway.

Bojan from Krajina
Norway
 
After the opening on the many European stores last month, besides Canada, Apple said they were planning on no more iTMS stores in the near future.

I get the impression that the opening of iTMS Canada will be a low key event. I've not heard about any Apple event either - if there were, it would have been mentioned on rumour sites - but there have been none.


cistamala said:
Does anybody know if there is going to be some kind of anounsment the next days? Some meeting or some release plans?? Some indication of a updated iTMS? I'd relly like to see iTMS in Norway.

Bojan from Krajina
Norway
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ct77 said:
THEY DID? :(

That's one of the coolest songs on album! S - O - C - I - A - L - I - S - M baby.

Granted, in the 50's in the States, it would have probably gotten Sam locked up in jail. Hmm...
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lol. Yeah, it's kinda ridiculous that they took it off of the US release. This explains much about why the Hip have never made it big south of the border. Imagine having to cut out every single reference to Canada for their US releases. Stompin' Tom definitely wouldn't have made it. ;-)

David :cool:
S-o c-i-a l-i-s-m is here to stay.
S-o c-i-a l-i-s-m is the only way-ay-ay.
 
cistamala said:
I'd relly like to see iTMS in Norway.
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Sadly I doubt we'll see iTMS in non-euro countries in the near future. I would especially expect Norway to be iTMS-less for a long time to come since it's not a very populated country AND since it's outside the EU. But hopefully I'm wrong :)
 
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