iTMS Expansions - Canada & Japan?

[wdlove]

The 26th is a Friday. Additionally, "Black Friday" won't have anything to do with the launch of the iTunes Music Store in Canada, as Thanksgiving has come and gone for us already.

All good things come to those that patiently wait. At least the time is very near.

 

[lalcan]

All good things come to those that patiently wait.

Alas, by that logic, the -as yet unannounced- Latin-American iTMS will be insuperable!!, i can only hope it becomes a reality within my lifetime...

You'd expect that with the huge piracy available the executives from the music industry would be looking for any alternative to distribute music, but they are blinded...

Many latin groups are fans of Apple, my iMac even came with a preloaded (and great) album by Gustavo Cerati! (whom i believe to lurk around here sometimes )

 

[Porchland]

Japan and Australia are western? I suppose they're west of TN.

Ireland is the other EU nation that hasn't gone.

I meant Western in the sense of having running water, toilet paper, etc., (but I LOL'd anyway).

 

[timmyOtool]

It will be interesting to see what compromises Apple will have to make to thier over-all model in order to get itms Japan up.

 

[SilvorX]

possibly, they do in canada afterall, we are even taxed more on our mp3 players for some retarded reason

aethier

all because of p2p, the levy from mp3 players/CD-Rs goes to the music industry.

 

[cantrdr]

Usually no. ITMS payments are made by credit card and Apple checks which country issues the card. If the iTMS country and credit card country doesn't match, Apple won't allow you to buy music.

There are ways around this though. I am a U.S. citizen living in Japan so I still have my old U.S. issue Mastercard which I can use to buy U.S. music while in Japan. I think you can also download music from overseas if someone sends you a iTMS gift certificate. The only problem being that somebody needs to get the gift certificates for you first.

Have you had any issues downloading music while in Japan? Did you select Japan as your country when setting up iTunes or did you select the US?(does it matter?)
I'm Canadian living in Ireland so same situation(almost), hoping to get an earlier start then some of my peers on this island!! Unless of course Ireland is announced alongside Canada on the 26th!!!

 

[ct77]

Store is looping again?

Similar to the period of time before the last update of iTMS in October, there is "looping" behaviour again.

When first clicking on Music Store in iTunes from Ontario, Canada, I get:

NOTE: The appearance of the "not available" message has also been updated as well, versus previous visits to the iTMS.

I then get the country selection screen (not to scale):

Finally, if I click on, say, the United States, I'm back here again:

Meaningful? Perhaps not, but interesting...

 

[Polek]

Same in Poland.

We are waiting as well.

 

[Sharewaredemon]

I noticed that today also, but remember, last time this happened, it happened to everyone who didn't have access to the store to purchase music. That having been said, this probably means that Canada will be jumping on board very soon.

 

[HoserHead]

I noticed that today also, but remember, last time this happened, it happened to everyone who didn't have access to the store to purchase music. That having been said, this probably means that Canada will be jumping on board very soon.

Just look at iTMS Canada - Next Month for confirmation that Canada and Ireland are going to have their very own iTunes Music Store before long.

 

[Sharewaredemon]

Just look at iTMS Canada - Next Month for confirmation that Canada and Ireland are going to have their very own iTunes Music Store before long.

Well yes I knew that, which is why I said that, you see, anyone in the world who does not live in a iTMS country, get's this endless loop, and last time, this happened, everyone thought they were getting their music store, yet, we didn't. The reason I said it was so, was that we have 5 days before it has been a month, so Canada will be getting iTMS soon. As for Ireland, I do not recall having seen anything about them.

 

[jared_kipe]

When will we be able to buy music from other countries in america. I have been stuck downloading music from japan, because it is so ridiculously impossible to get it here.

 

[Santaduck]

I wonder if this means that there will be more Japanese labels available for sale in the iTMS of the US or Europe.

 

[jimjiminyjim]

Well... it seems to me that this rumor is now moot. There's still some time left in the working day, depending on where you live in the world... but, really... we're out of time. Boo. Next week.. Tuesday?