Tag archive: itunes music store

They say the value of an artist's work increases after he or she passes away, but not quite like this. Sony Music and Apple are both currently being criticized by fans in the United Kingdom for raising the price of soul and R&B singer Whitney Houston's greatest hits album just hours after the artist died Saturday afternoon. The particular 1997 album, The Ultimate Collection, was priced at £4.99 (or approximately $8) in the Apple… Read More

Do good things come to those who wait? More than six years after launching the iTunes Music Store in the United States, Apple has finally launched the iTunes Store in Mexico, offering music from the world's major labels and hundreds of independent labels and featuring both Mexican and international artists. Most songs are priced at 12 pesos with albums at 120 pesos, and—like other iTunes Stores—the music is available in… Read More

Last year, Norway's consumer ombudsman agreed with complaints from the nation's Consumer Council that restrictions placed on media purchased from Apple's iTunes Music Store unfairly infringe on consumer rights; now, the country is threatening to file suit against Apple, Inc., if it doesn't open up it iTunes store so media can be played on non-iPod devices by October 1, 2007. The basis of the dispute is Apple's… Read More

Apple maybe have moved almost 40 million iPod music players in the last quarter, but the market for digital music downloads may sputter out before it ever takes off. According to the U.K.'s The Register, Apple's iTunes Music Store has experienced a “collapse” in music sales revenue, according to credit card sales data analyzed by Forrester Research. Forrester reportedly analyzed 2,791 U.S. credit credit card… Read More

Gotta admit: even a crufty old franchise like Law & Order can pull a smart marketing move once in a while. From now until its broadcast premiere on NBC March 3, the commercial-free pilot episode for the latest Law & Order spinoff series Conviction is available for free download from Apple's iTunes Music Store. The episode can be viewed in Apple's iTunes jukebox application and, of course, is compatible with Apple's… Read More

In a surprise move today, Apple unleashed their new 1GB iPod Nano to consumers. The new iPod can hold up to 240 songs or 150,000 photos and comes in white and black like the other Nanos. It will retail for $149, which makes the Nano even more affordable to those in the market for a new portable music player. The Nano has been a hit since it was first released in September 2005 due to its ultra-thin design and sharp color LCD. Apple has also… Read More

Information Appliance Associates has released a software program for Macintosh computers that allows Sony PSP users to sync their MP3s from iTunes onto their PSP's memory cards.  It not only handles MP3s, but photos and the contacts database. It does not support music from the iTunes Music Store however.  The software, titled PocketMac for PSP, is available from the PocketMac site for an introductory offer of $9.95… Read More

“Most known for his software that breaks the copy protection of DVDs, Johansen with the help of two counterparts has released PyMusique, what they bill as “a fair interface to the iTunes Music Store.” The software allows for the user to preview songs like the actual iTunes program, however when it downloads the songs, it downloads them without the DRM attached to it — allowing the user once the file is… Read More

“The recordings will be available for purchase through Apple's iTunes Music Store, which has an existing relationship with Audible, and other sites that sell audio over the Internet, according tothe NFL and Audible. The first recordings of football games for sale under the agreement will be this Sunday's NFL conference championships, which will be available on the Internet the following morning.” Read more at Silicon… Read More

“With the launch of Virgin Digital, Branson joins a crowded marketplace that is currently dominated by Apple's iTunes Music Store. iTunes hold a solid 70 percent share of the market with the remainder divided up among of a crowded field composed of RealNetworks Rhapsody, America Online's MusicNet, Microsoft's MSN Music Store, Roxio's legalized Napster service, Yahoo's MusicMatch and retail giant Wal-Mart.… Read More

As the number of songs downloaded from Apple's iTunes Music Store crosses 95 million tomorrow, Apple will begin the countdown to 100 million songs by giving away 50 special 20GB iPods-one to thepurchaser of each 100,000th song downloaded between 95 million and 100 million songs. In addition, the person who downloads the 100 millionth song will receive a 17-inch PowerBook, a 40GB iPod, agift certificate for 10,000 iTunes songs to create… Read More

From Apple's press release: "After selling over 800,000 songs during its first week, iTunes is Europe's top online music store," said Steve Jobs, Apple's CEO. "In the UK alone, iTunes sold more than 450,000 songs in the last week-16 times as many as OD2, its closest competitor." The iTunes Music Store in the UK, France and Germany offers over 700,000 songs in each country, a la carte pricing and seamless… Read More

“Sony Connect, our music download service, has just been launched at beta-testing level and video downloading will follow later this year,” said Howard Stringer, vice chairman and chief operating officer of Sony, at a Tokyo news conference. A company spokesman later downplayed the remarks and said that while Sony is considering a video download service it has made no decision on timing or the type of video content that may be… Read More

The Mac maker on Wednesday released an iPod software update in conjunction with its enhancement of iTunes. The iPod software is required for iPods to take advantage of the new features of iTunes 4.5 and the iTunes Music Store. However, a number of iPod owners say that when they run the software that is supposed to upgrade their devices, the software cannot detect their iPod. “Apple is aware of a few isolated reports and is… Read More

A new survey by the Pew Internet & American Life Project reveals that the number of people who say they download music — both legally and otherwise — swelled to 23 million, an increase of 28 percent since the last survey in December. New online music services, such as Apple's iTunes Music Store, Musicmatch and the new Napster, are gaining an audience, attracting about 11 million people over the past six months. But… Read More