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iTunes Countdown to 100 Million

i've been browsing the store across the mark and didn't notice any slowdown in speed.
I did notice that in world music, if you browse the artists, a lot (A LOT!) of them don't have any tracks.
Why are they even there?
 
hahahaha
4000 songs spike! you guys are in good company!

edit: the spike was due to a longer update time (10 min) so actually there was no spike at all at the mark).
I guess it depends on all you guys trying a t the same time and stalling the system.
I hope iTMS upgrade their service for the increased traffic at the 100 mil or this thing is going to blow.
 
Don't panic said:
i've been browsing the store across the mark and didn't notice any slowdown in speed
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I didn't notice any drop in speed when browsing the store, either. Only when you try to make a purchase or click the "tell a friend" like does it stop working.
 
Timing your iTMS purchases to hit the exact right second is a lot like the last-minute frenzy of buying before an eBay auction closes. Will someone soon create a tune-buying bot to handle this automatically?
 
Doctor Q said:
Timing your iTMS purchases to hit the exact right second is a lot like the last-minute frenzy of buying before an eBay auction closes. Will someone soon create a tune-buying bot to handle this automatically?
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Any "mechanically generated entries" would be in direct violation of the official rules.
 
Doctor Q said:
Timing your iTMS purchases to hit the exact right second is a lot like the last-minute frenzy of buying before an eBay auction closes. Will someone soon create a tune-buying bot to handle this automatically?
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Actually it is worse because you are trying to hit a moving target influenced by others buying and server response times.

The iTMS server was painfully slow around 95,300,000. It took me five tries to fully download a purchased album.

I have a better chance winning New York's Mega Millions! ($290M USD tonight)
 
I bought a song just on the last turn, and got error messages with every attempt to download it - after waiting about 15 minutes it worked - but its missing its album artwork damnit! Is this odd or do some songs just not have artwork?
 
Missing album artwork - Apple will fix it for you?

Missing album art is a glitch--I got one like that this Tuesday. First time I ever heard of that happening.

It was a free song but I submitted the problem to customer service anyway just to see how good the service was :) Well they didn't respond very fast (took about 3 days) but I got an email telling me to Check for Purchased Music and I'd get a fresh copy. That worked--a very simple system. But the art was missing the second time too :eek:

(This is very weird, since the art is part of the file! Must be some glitch happening when the file is being created with ties to your Apple ID.)

Of course, I could just grab the relevant album art off Amazon.com or something quite easily, but I wanted to see what system Apple had for a problem download. I'm reporting the issue again to see what happens (and so they can fix a bug if they have one), but it's no biggie either way.

I probably could have re-downloaded the free song again anyway--I'm not sure. But I figure Apple would then get charged twice, and I didn't care enough to make that experiment. Maybe I will later.
 
CyberB0b said:
Wrong thread Freg3000, the iMac bashing thread is over here.
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Excuse me? This is most certainly the thread in which I was intending to post. I was referring to the fact that many of these analytical graphs will disappear when the promotion is over and Apple no longer provides data every 5 minutes. However, I put out the idea that perhaps Apple would not remove the source from their site, as they have not removed other material such as the Big and Small PowerBook ad from over 1.5 years ago. Hope that cleared everything up.

With that said though, I have no idea how you construed what I said to be iMac bashing....

P.S. 95,439,430 and counting
 
Macrumors said:
As of this posting, the store had sold 94,496,906 songs.
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That makes it roughly 1 Million songs sold now in just the last 44 hours alone. Wow.
 
Has anyone been keeping track of how many songs have been sold *everytime* Apple updates it? (how often is that, BTW?)

I'd be interested in that data.
 
:rolleyes: He was being sarcastic. I guess you didnt get the humor of it.

Freg3000 said:
Excuse me? This is most certainly the thread in which I was intending to post. I was referring to the fact that many of these analytical graphs will disappear when the promotion is over and Apple no longer provides data every 5 minutes. However, I put out the idea that perhaps Apple would not remove the source from their site, as they have not removed other material such as the Big and Small PowerBook ad from over 1.5 years ago. Hope that cleared everything up.

With that said though, I have no idea how you construed what I said to be iMac bashing....

P.S. 95,439,430 and counting
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:rolleyes:
 
BlueDjinn said:
OK, *this* doesn't make any sense now...

http://itunescount.tijdweb.nl/

Why in the world would there be a sudden spike NOW? (it lept up at around 95,320,000)???

It should've spiked at 95,295,000 or so, then dropped off in between--this doesn't make any sense???
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Because they've had techical issues it seems.
 
stoid said:
It's evening in the US, so maybe that's the cause of the spike.
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These spikes are anomalies, given that they happen around 10am-11am CET (which is 4am-5am ET). Personally, I believe that it's caused by two factors: Americans living in Europe, such as military personnel, who would have American addresses and be established iTMS buyers, and Hawaii where HST is 12 hours behind CET.
 
Ouch…

Over 1 million tracks in the last 45h 15min!

In other words, over 500,000 tracks a day - this must really hurt if you're Napster, or OD2/Loudcloud or Rhapsody.

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Just spotted an interesting trend: it's deep in the night pretty much all over the USA, and yet downloads are being maintained for the period 11:00am-12:00 BST at nearly 225,000 tracks/day (actually 156 tracks/minute).

Given that the cumulative average since the launch of iTMS is only around 220,000 tracks/day, the implication is that Europe has now completely bought into iTMS.

The real traffic seems to take off around 15:00 BST (10AM ET), although now we're into a weekend so who knows what will happen.
 
Freg3000 said:
Excuse me? This is most certainly the thread in which I was intending to post. I was referring to the fact that many of these analytical graphs will disappear when the promotion is over and Apple no longer provides data every 5 minutes. However, I put out the idea that perhaps Apple would not remove the source from their site, as they have not removed other material such as the Big and Small PowerBook ad from over 1.5 years ago. Hope that cleared everything up.

With that said though, I have no idea how you construed what I said to be iMac bashing....

P.S. 95,439,430 and counting
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Sorry about that Freg, I forgot to put the <sarcasm> tags around my post. :)
 
Just wanted to add yet another iTunes Music Store counter to the fun.

Presenting the Psychedelic iTMS counter in Shockwave.

http://pages.infinit.net/voxel/itmspsychedeliccount.htm

It's a counter but with a colorfull iTunes visualizer effect going on. I guess it shows how an iTMS counter gadget in dashboard with core image effects could look like (with many other cooler possibilities). If anyone wants the source code contact me.

Anyway have fun :)
 
For those of you who purchased a song during one of the spikes last-night, did you receive you email receipt yet? I purchased a few songs at 8 PM EDT and as of this post I haven't received mine.
 
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