iTunes Music Service Stuff
Published 5 years, 6 months ago in macintosh
Credit Card Micropayment information, related to Apple and the new iTunes music service… neat information. Very neat. [via More Like This Weblog]
iTunes Music Store Digital Rights Summary [via More Like This Weblog]
iTunes sells 275,000 songs in 18 hours. Wow. Reported by MacWorldUK but not directly linked:
The feat is especially remarkable when considering that the offering is available only to the limited universe of users of Apple computers. The launch thereby sets the stage for a race between a host of media and technology companies to create and effectively promote similar services for the much bigger Microsoft-equipped PC market.
“There is going to be a race to see who can get to the Windows market and start to replicate this,” says the head of new media at one major label. “The question is [whether] someone else wants to put up the kind of money that Apple is to let people know they’re there.”
Apple says it plans to make iTunes compatible with the PC by the end of the year. Sources tell Bulletin that two major labels have already cut wholesale agreements with Apple for the Windows version of the service.
To be honest, I’ve got to admit that I’ve signed up, but haven’t actually purchased any music through the service yet… we’ll see if I ever do…
I actually enjoy going to a CD store every now and then to get music advice from the sales folks… especially now that I’m in Austin.
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Know what’s lame about iTunes Music Store? They let you share the song on up to three Macs (registered with your Apple ID), but you can only download it once. So say I have my PMG4 and my iBook and I download the song to my PMG4, I then have to find a way to get it from the PMG4 to the iBook, I can’t just log in and view a list of “Purchased Music” and download that tune again to the iBook.
Similarly, if you ever acidentally delete a tune or lose it in a drive crash, you’re out of luck — you have to buy everything again. “The user is responsible for back-ups” is the official word out of Apple.
Sure, I understand them wanting to limit their bandwidth needs, but when you’re buying something that isn’t tangible, this isn’t acceptable in my book. What if you buy 1,000 songs and then your drive crashes? You’ve just wasted $1,000 if you didn’t burn them or copy them to your iPod or another drive.
[I haven't bought any tunes, mind you, but Cyril bought a bunch with my account for his MacGen write up: http://www.macgeneration.com/mgnews/categories/labo/labo_99673_1.shtml (since it's not available in Switzerland yet)]
I wrote about the ITMS the other day and how they charge your credit card. Mr. Rentzsch is pretty close, but it actually works slightly different…
http://radio.weblogs.com/0116463/2003/05/02.html#a413
that has all the details.
Misha:
I heard that if you want you can download the songs again… Seems like it’s a fair idea. Drives to crash.
Just make sure to keep iTunes’ library backed up
Jon — you heard you can download the songs again? How? Or did I misread something?
At any rate, the iMisha Music Store has been open for business for many years now… 160GB of MP3s and any big label album months before its release.
John’s been a free member for a while, he can vouge that the service is first rate.
And best of all, all the money goes to a struggling individual (me!) not a corrupt corporation! Horray!