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DRM

I just think that the whole section on the former DRM restriction is misleading. the entire music store is now drm free and the past should stay in the past.24.17.36.191 (talk) 06:48, 20 December 2009 (UTC)

I'll second that. I was pretty confused reading about the DRM section (especially in the right sidebar). 76.10.150.252 (talk) 02:36, 8 June 2011 (UTC)

iTunes store picture

They have changed the movie column on the left of it to "rentals". Someone fix it please!

I have now updated the image to display the store in iTunes 11. drewmunn (talk) 18:36, 29 November 2012 (UTC)

Raw protocol analysis

I was looking for some information on how Itune works and I felt this is missing from the article. My interest on this was to fix a network issue. Anyway, if I get time, I will try to mention it.

Itune uses DAAP and http for data transfer. Looks like DAAP is used to access the music database and http is used to transfer the music content. This is from a brief googling and that is why I would be putting this information on the front page. Wikipedia though still have the necessary information, only intergration that isn't right See Digital Audio Access Protocol

Dead links in references

Note 3 is dead "Digital developments could be tipping point for MP3". -David Forster

Hmm. I'm not sure how to edit that part of the article (introduction) but I've found an article by the same name on the same website. Here is the correct link:

http://www.reuters.com/article/industryNews/idUSN0132743320071205

-David Forster

Count Down to...

Should there be a section here about "Count Down to.." where an artist or band release singles once a week until the album is released. Eminem did it with Relapse and The Black Eyed Peas are currently doing it with The E.N.D. I'm sure there are many more.—Preceding unsigned comment added by MatthewWaller (talk • contribs) 16:11, 19 May 2009 (UTC)

==DRM for movies/music==hi Someone should add in the fact that Movies and music, can only be downloaded ONCE after that you are responsible for backing up you're content, they can restore it (making up that once only download) however if they change an item (such as the cost of a movie) you are unable to have that item restored. This can be confirmed by emailing the iTunes support, as there is no large section on it (or why) in their FAQ leaving the average iTunes user in the dark about this policy. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 199.246.2.11 (talk) 20:01, 2 November 2009 (UTC)

I'm think it is known by most people that digital downloads, no matter where they are from, can only be downloaded once and that is at the time it was bought. This is mostly because of the fear of unauthorized distribution.UserAll1357 (talk) 04:14, 3 November 2009 (UTC)

Ironically, you can download apps an unlimited number of times.24.17.36.191 (talk) 05:34, 15 December 2009 (UTC)

iTunes U

Suggestion about the convenience of creating a specific article devoted to iTunes U expanding its content with detailed information on the material of academic relevance freely available.

I think that iTunes U deserves a whole new segregated article (without removing the existing entry as an introduction to the subject). iTunes U is the first specifically organized Internet distributor of academic material, most importantly audio and video recordings of whole courses from some of the most outstanding universities of the Western society. This feature transcends and overshadows the original commercial purpose of iTunes as an Internet vendor of music and other stuff. Since the academic instruction is generally regarded as a service of public benefit, any free distribution of its content should be considered of public interest as well (more or less like the service given by radio and TV stations broadcasting the news). Finally, I think worthy that such article could keep an up to date summary of the most relevant contents in iTunes U or at least providing links to Internet sites providing such kind of information. Since the description of the academic content available in itunes U so far has not proven to be commercially profitable, the provision of such information would perfectly fit in one of Wikipedia's goals: give access to high quality information on any topic, in this case the content of that free available material of a large number of academic institutions. Heathmoor (talk) 22:42, 6 January 2010 (UTC)

iBooks iBookstore

These articles should be merged into Itunes. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 173.206.58.151 (talk) 22:24, 27 January 2010 (UTC)

Disagree - Why? iBooks is an application. iBookstore is a separate store from the iTunes Store. Merging these would be like merging iPad into iPod. — Epastore (talk) 22:46, 27 January 2010 (UTC)

Disagree - Just as the App Store, the iBookstore should have its own article. They are both separated from the itunes store. P. S. Burton (talk) 22:57, 27 January 2010 (UTC)

10th billionth song

There is a contradiction with something stated in this article. It says that iTunes has reached 9,9 billions songs sold in February 2009. This does not comply with what is stated on Apples 10 billion song countdown (http://www.apple.com/itunes/10-billion-song-countdown) where it says that 9,9 billion songs are sold at this day (February 2010). —Preceding unsigned comment added by 83.101.74.151 (talk) 15:47, 24 February 2010 (UTC)

Availability

How come they don't have Def Leppard, beatles, and especially AC/DC songs?

Alleged internationalization

This article has a long section about "internationalization" of iTunes. I click on the iTunes icon, go to the "music store", search for Nena, find some of her albums and songs. Wunder geschehen is not there, and "Keine Langeweile" is not there. So I click on "change country", then on "Deutschland", then enter "Keine Langeweile" in the search box, and there it is. I can listen to a brief preview. I click on "Kaufen". I enter a user name and password, then I get a notice that says:

Your account is only valid for purchases in the US iTunes Store. Clicking OK will take you to this store.

You would think that in this day and age, sending money via the internet from the USA to Germany, and sending a recording of a song via the internet from Germany to the USA, would be possible. But it's more than iTunes can handle.

This article should say that this "internationalization" does not include shipping money or songs from one country to another. I ran into the same problem at http://amazon.de. There I got a notice that said:

Bitte beachten Sie

Tut uns leid. Ihre Bestellung konnte nicht

verarbeitet werden, da das gewünschte Produkt

geografischen Einschränkungen unterliegt.

Weitere Informationen zu den geografischen

Einschränkungen finden Sie in den

Nutzungsbedingungen zu diesem Produkt. Wir

entschuldigen uns für Unannehmlichkeiten,

die Ihnen möglicherweise hieraus entstanden

sind.

When will it be possible to send money and songs across the Atlantic? Michael Hardy (talk) 06:06, 13 May 2010 (UTC)

Wikipedia is not a forum, but if I had to make a guess, it probably has to do with licensing issues. DanielDPeterson (talk) 00:52, 16 February 2011 (UTC)

Def Leppard

Def Leppard's with name with popular artists not on itunes —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.41.121.194 (talk) 23:28, 16 November 2010 (UTC)

Apple Computer vs Apple Corps

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ITunes_Store#Apple_Records

How is this related the iTunes Store? This belongs on Apple's page, sure, but not the iTunes Store. DanielDPeterson (talk) 00:51, 16 February 2011 (UTC)

iTunes sales charts as a reference

There is a discussion going on concerning the use of iTunes sales charts in articles (particularly song and album articles). Currently WP:BADCHARTS specifically disallows use of iTunes charts the discussion is on whether this needs to be updated or not. See Wikipedia talk:Record charts#iTunes sales vs. WP:Badcharts--RadioFan (talk) 11:57, 1 June 2011 (UTC)

Digital Film Distribution / Section for and about content providing??????

Most interesting I would find more information on how to sell and under what conditions independent filmmakers can distribute their films, or musicians their music. How much does the artist earn? There is too much information on ipod ipad etc.The article needs to be cut down to ITunes STORE related information, eg aggregators etc. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 87.162.90.47 (talk) 17:41, 7 June 2011 (UTC)

New countries

Today, the iTunes Store launched in about 10 new countries, including Slovakia, Czech Republic, Poland, Hungary, Morocco and more. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 178.40.41.228 (talk) 11:30, 29 September 2011 (UTC)

Copyright violation in UK and other countries?

Whilst US law allows a person to make copies of music they have purchased, in the UK, and probably other countries, such copying is, strictly, illegal (although widely practiced since the days of compact cassettes).

Thus, whilst downloads from online Apple stores might be legal, importing one's own CDs into iTunes is not. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.160.219.91 (talk) 09:56, 13 February 2012 (UTC)

iTunes Server® — no section explaining the term?

I have see many NAS (network attached storage) drives have "iTunes Server®" as one of the technical items listed in their specification. Yet hardly any info about the term or what it means to users. Can anyone expand this, by adding some info here please. A strange omission from a mainstream WP article. --Jimthing (talk) 04:39, 18 May 2012 (UTC)

"iTunes Connect" missing - really, this shouldn't be missing on here.

This needs a short section adding about iTunes Connect, linking to the iTunes Connect page, which desperately needs expanding fully (their's plenty of info that could fill that one on a separate page). Given iTunes Connect is the main way for nearly ALL content in the iTunes Store (whether music/video or app's, etc.) to get there, it's omission from WP is really bad. I'd do it myself if I knew more about it, but what it really needs is someone who preferably has used it to upload media and/or app's, and therefore can write about it pretty fluently. Anyone agree? --Jimthing (talk) 04:41, 18 May 2012 (UTC)

Name change missing?

Article says store was originally called the "iTunes Music Store", but AFAICT doesn't mention when the name changed to simply the "iTunes Store"? Can someone add this missing detail please. Jimthing (talk) 07:19, 13 September 2012 (UTC)

Explicit-Lyric Mislabels

I've noticed a lot of mislabeled "explicit" tracks on the iTunes Store. For example, albums that say every song is explicit, when there's like 4 or 5 tracks that aren't. And there's also some tracks on an "explicit" album that don't have swearing, and are labeled "clean", as if there was swearing before. Some notable examples of mislabeled songs are: Crucify Me, Don't Go, Memorial, and Blessed With a Curse by Bring Me the Horizon off the album "There is a Hell, Believe Me I've Seen It. There is a Heaven, Let's Keep It a Secret," Salvation, The Bleeding, The Devil's Own, Can't Heal You, and Death Before Dishonor by Five Finger Death Punch off the album "The Way of the Fist", and The Pride, Coming Down, and Back for More by Five Finger Death Punch off the album "American Capitalist". Someone please add this 98.127.129.22 (talk) 00:05, 27 February 2014 (UTC)

Limitations and IOS tie in, possible changes for Android

The article makes only brief mention that to buy content from the store iTunes is needed, which ties purchase to having Windows PC, Mac, or iOS device (iPhone/iPad/iPod Touch). Therefore Linux, Android or other platforms don't have access to buy content, and so miss out opportunity to buy from worlds largest music store. Has a clear link been established between the above and a drive to encourage sale of Apple hardware? Also following hints at future move to support sales on Android: http://www.macrumors.com/2014/04/09/apple-considering-itunes-overhaul/ John a s (talk) 07:25, 11 April 2014 (UTC)

iTunes U

"iTunes U" redirects here, but isn't really explained in the article. -- Beland (talk) 21:34, 7 May 2014 (UTC)

iTune apps v. App Store (iOS)

Please can the article clarify the differences between the iTunes store distribution of apps and the App Store (iOS)? Does iTunes store have all the apps on the App Store, or is it some sort of front end or gateway to the App Store? John a s (talk) 07:23, 10 September 2014 (UTC)

No one here seems to know. My problem is that I can only see books, movies and TV shows in the iStore ... no apps.DOR (HK) (talk) 14:58, 7 May 2017 (UTC)

Out of date

This article is terribly out of date, full of mistakes, and mentions features that don't exist. I just fixed a couple in the infobox, but I don't have time to rewrite the entire article. I don't know what the actual policy is for articles like this that are full of mistakes, but I'm putting a header at the top of the article so readers know it's in bad shape.

Kirkmc (talk) 08:58, 25 April 2017 (UTC)

I don't know how it was in 2017 but as it is right now it's in very bad shape (lots of ad-like content and things that aren't supposed to be in an encyclopedia), so probably it's remained below standard. I will try and make improvements soon when I have the time. I've already made the massive table smaller so it's displayable and better readable on most monitors - can't believe no-one did that yet. Sceeegt (talk) 22:11, 26 September 2024 (UTC)

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