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iTMS Canada Launch Tomorrow?

trump said:
who doesn't love Australia? They're #2 in my books....riiight after Canada :cool:
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Nah, sorry mate, you're living in a deluded world. Australia's #1. Mind you, Canada is a pretty close second. (Spent six weeks there, a couple of years ago. Lovely place. Toronto in particular -- if it weren't for the weird accents and the fact that they drive on the wrong side of the road -- could be any part of Melbourne. :D)

It's kinda strange. Customs at Honolulu rubbed me the wrong way, big time (nothing in particular; just the attitude, I guess... maybe the fact that I was a bit tired after the flight from Sydney didn't help.) Customs at Vancouver, OTOH, I had no particular issues with. *shrugs* In any case, I doubt I'd visit Canada again. I have no desire to be fingerprinted just because I'm passing through some ultra paranoid country that I don't even have much interest in seeing anyway. :D

(Please understand: I'm not bashing US citizens in particular. It's the attitude of the government that mostly rubs me the wrong way. I dunno why, really.)
 
Macrumors said:
Many members have noticed that the message "The iTunes Music Store is not available in your country yet" appears when they select any country, which mirrors the behavior just before the launch of the European iTMS stores on October 26.
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You mean the same message which all countries get that don't "yet" have the iTunes Music store? The same message which caused macosrumors.com to list about 15 countries under exactly the same guise of "proof".

Come on.

p.s. I've been getting that same message (though altered layout) in Australia since Oct 25.
 
I don't get what all the fuss is about the country warning message. I got that message every time I accessed the music store prior to its release in the UK (i.e. the message came up every time I accessed it between September 2003 when I got my PowerBook up to June 14th 2004 when the UK version was released).

The warning is there to simply state that you can browse the store but not use it. I don't think it gives any indication of changes or new stores imminent at all.

Obviously iTMS Canada didn't happen yesterday but it probably will soon. You can do nothing but wait until it happens and be prepared for a little snag or last piece of red tape to delay it a couple of days or weeks too. Be patient and it'll be here :cool:
 
johnnyjibbs said:
I don't get what all the fuss is about...
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We can certainly see that message, and it offers to let us browse, but we can't. We pick a store, and end up in a loop. So the only access we have is through the browse feature of iTunes. No graphical interface with all the features (iMixes, Videos, etc). THAT is the what the fuss is about. And the same thing happened just before the last 'broadening' of the iTMS. So we thought it may come as early as yesterday (tuesday) but aparently not.
 
adamberti said:
We can certainly see that message, and it offers to let us browse, but we can't. We pick a store, and end up in a loop. So the only access we have is through the browse feature of iTunes. No graphical interface with all the features (iMixes, Videos, etc). THAT is the what the fuss is about. And the same thing happened just before the last 'broadening' of the iTMS. So we thought it may come as early as yesterday (tuesday) but aparently not.
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Oh I see. Thanks for clearing that up.
 
i know because someone who works at a label in canada told me. they're working with iTMS on content. they will not launch during the u.s. thanksgiving. november 30th it is. trust me. and i can't wait!
 
sjl said:
Nah, sorry mate, you're living in a deluded world. Australia's #1. Mind you, Canada is a pretty close second. (Spent six weeks there, a couple of years ago. Lovely place. Toronto in particular -- if it weren't for the weird accents and the fact that they drive on the wrong side of the road -- could be any part of Melbourne. :D)

It's kinda strange. Customs at Honolulu rubbed me the wrong way, big time (nothing in particular; just the attitude, I guess... maybe the fact that I was a bit tired after the flight from Sydney didn't help.) Customs at Vancouver, OTOH, I had no particular issues with. *shrugs* In any case, I doubt I'd visit Canada again. I have no desire to be fingerprinted just because I'm passing through some ultra paranoid country that I don't even have much interest in seeing anyway. :D

(Please understand: I'm not bashing US citizens in particular. It's the attitude of the government that mostly rubs me the wrong way. I dunno why, really.)
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Only thing stopping me from visiting Sydney is the 24 hour flight...but I do hear that your girls aren't that bad ;) It really is strange how similar Canadia and Aussiealia are, even in history

As for iTMS - I'm syaing the 26th. Why? Well Apple has something special planned for that day
http://www.apple.com/giftguide/holiday/
 
sjl said:
Nah, sorry mate, you're living in a deluded world. Australia's #1. Mind you, Canada is a pretty close second. (Spent six weeks there, a couple of years ago. Lovely place. Toronto in particular -- if it weren't for the weird accents and the fact that they drive on the wrong side of the road -- could be any part of Melbourne. :D[
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Did you manage to spend any time in the Prairies or the West Coast? Although Toronto is nice, it's a huge smoggy city, whereas if you head out into BC you have the Rockies, the Pacific Ocean, the beach, and the Island is amazing - great activities like ocean kayaking, whale watching, surfing, and rainforests which match those of New Zealand! As for the Prairies, where I'm at, you'd probably enjoy it if you enjoy the Outback - a whole lot of nothing. ;) Dry heat during the summer with temperatures at 30-40 degrees if not higher some days! Yep, we definitely have a diverse country here.... :cool:

And I love Australia too, really enjoyed the time I spent there. My brother just returned from Melbourne actually, amazing city. I also met a couple great blokes from your fine police force while I was backpacking through Eastern Europe a couple months ago too, we were out drinking all the time! :cool:
 
Interesting comment at MacFixit

Gilbert Breen writes "I, too, am experiencing the same issue. I am a US student studying in Chile this semester. Up until last week I was able to browse and purchase music since my credit card has my US address.

"Once I noticed the behavior, I emailed Apple and was told, at first, to make sure I upgrade to version 4.7 of iTunes. I responded that I had already done so. Apple then responded that this is expected behavior of iTunes 4.7. iTMS logs your IP address and if it is not in one of the countries where there is an established iTMS, your access is denied. You can no longer even browse unless you are physically in a country with an established iTMS."
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This isn't quite true, as you can still use the browse button.
 
antirealist said:
Interesting comment at MacFixit



This isn't quite true, as you can still use the browse button.
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But ...

Earlier this month I used iTunes 4.7 to purchase on a UK account from both UK and Australia, using two different laptops.
 
How to browse ITMS from Canada, maybe others.

I just saw this in MacFixit and when in Itunes click on a song title arrow and it will take you you to the song in the iTunes Music Store and you can then browse from there. However the prices (in Canada anyway) show up as 0.99 Euros not dollars. So it is definately sending me to a Eurpoean Store not the US store.
 
bytemonger said:
I just saw this in MacFixit and when in Itunes click on a song title arrow and it will take you you to the song in the iTunes Music Store and you can then browse from there. However the prices (in Canada anyway) show up as 0.99 Euros not dollars. So it is definately sending me to a Eurpoean Store not the US store.
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I'm in Canada. If I click the US store, and then browse, the prices are in US dollars. If I click the Italian store (for example) and then browse, I see the prices in Euros. Click the UK store and browse, and the prices are in Pounds.
 
sromurcam said:
i know because someone who works at a label in canada told me. they're working with iTMS on content. they will not launch during the u.s. thanksgiving. november 30th it is. trust me. and i can't wait!
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Why would a US holiday have anything to do with the launching of a Canadian store. the announcement would probably come from Apple Canada and the only people that it would really be intersted in it would be the Candian media and Canadian purchasers.

Personally I think it will be Friday as previously announced.
 
tobyc said:
the only people that it would really be intersted in it would be the Candian media and Canadian purchasers.
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I disagree - a large number of people in many countries are interested in whatever Apple does with ITMS.
 
It must also take a lot of staff at Apple in the U.S. to coordinate the release, announcement, and publicity for a new online store opening. On a U.S. holiday, that's harder.
 
Where would the servers be?

Doctor Q said:
It must also take a lot of staff at Apple in the U.S. to coordinate the release, announcement, and publicity for a new online store opening. On a U.S. holiday, that's harder.
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I suspect that the servers for all of the stores must be centrally located, but I am not basing that on any kind of knowledge of the ITMS infrastructure. I just can't imagine Apple setting up servers for each store in the country that the store serves.

If I am right, then of course you would need IT people right there to ensure that the Canadian launch was free of technical issues, which again is not a cool thing to do to your staff on the holidays, if indeed the servers are in Cupertino.

On another note - I can't even get to the page that lets me choose the store (with the flag logos). Just tried a few minutes ago. Was working fine earlier today. This is kinda new, but who knows what, if anything, it means.
 
Avicdar said:
On another note - I can't even get to the page that lets me choose the store (with the flag logos). Just tried a few minutes ago. Was working fine earlier today. This is kinda new, but who knows what, if anything, it means.
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Same here. This really is new behaviour.
 
Why do you suppose they did that? To save on bandwith as people across the world attempt to see how their own iTunes is going to work... and as they check to see if iTunes Canada/Ireland is available.

Honestly, how many people do you think are checking once or more a day?
 
~Shard~ said:
Did you manage to spend any time in the Prairies or the West Coast? Although Toronto is nice, it's a huge smoggy city, whereas if you head out into BC you have the Rockies, the Pacific Ocean, the beach, and the Island is amazing - great activities like ocean kayaking, whale watching, surfing, and rainforests which match those of New Zealand! As for the Prairies, where I'm at, you'd probably enjoy it if you enjoy the Outback - a whole lot of nothing. ;) Dry heat during the summer with temperatures at 30-40 degrees if not higher some days! Yep, we definitely have a diverse country here.... :cool:
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Oh, yes, I started out there. Spent two weeks in the Rockies, and a week or so around Vancouver and Victoria. Toronto was basically a base for poking around the western area of Canada (eg: Niagara Falls -- talk about your tourist traps, although the falls themselves were great), as well as Churchill (don't ask; it won't hurt so much. :D Nah, seriously, I'd pre-booked the ticket - Melb-Syd-Van-Toronto-Van-Syd-Melb - and was going to make things up as I went along once I got to Toronto. So I booked a flight to Winnipeg from Toronto, and took the train from there to Churchill.)

trump said:
Only thing stopping me from visiting Sydney is the 24 hour flight...
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Tell me about it. I made the mistake of having a flight straight back from Toronto. Toronto to Vancouver to Honolulu to Sydney to Melbourne. Not counting stopovers, I swear I was inside metal tubes for a good 24 hours. It was over a year before I flew again. :D If I were to do it again, I'd space it out -- have a day or two in Vancouver, a day or two in Honolulu, then fly straight back home via Sydney (unless there's a direct flight from Honolulu to Melbourne, which I doubt.) More likely to go to Africa next though (if there is a next time -- I'm kinda broke for the next 15 or more years, having just taken out a mortgage. :D)
 
as well as Churchill (don't ask; it won't hurt so much. Nah, seriously, I'd pre-booked the ticket - Melb-Syd-Van-Toronto-Van-Syd-Melb - and was going to make things up as I went along once I got to Toronto. So I booked a flight to Winnipeg from Toronto, and took the train from there to Churchill.)
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how did u like ol' churchill?
I've never been there but had a friend from there.. see any polar bears? ;)

iTMS wont let me switch countries now when i click on "..to browse a music store, click here"..

and i just realized that the iTMS ID3 tags d00ds need to do a better job at composers.. for some of the songs by my fave canadian rock band is all bs, saying musicians wrote the song who didn't and such.. ugh
 
Tomorrow?

I don't really see any reason why the Canadian store shouldn't launch tomorrow. Here's hoping!
 
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