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Windows iTunes Sells A Million Songs In 3.5 Days

Posted by simoniker on from the ker-ching dept.

ajkst1 writes "According to an Apple press release, the iTunes Music Store has sold 1 million songs since its release on the Windows platform on October 16. Also of note is the 1 million downloads of the iTunes music program itself. When the iTMS was first released, it took a full week to sell a million songs. The store has now had 14 million songs purchased and downloaded since its original launch in April."

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  1. Re:Wrong! by caomania · · Score: 5, Informative

    Before itunes was released for windows mac ITMS users where purchasing 600,000 songs a week(7 days). On average that's 85,714 (600,000/7) per day. So we could expect mac ITMS users to purchase around 300,000 songs within a normal 3.5 day period. Now unless you're suggesting that mac users got so excited about the windows itunes release that they increased their music consumption by 3x +, you're overlooking a 700,000 song gap. I 'll even be conservative and say that probably half a million of the song downloads where definitely pc users.

  2. Re:Wrong! by Zoid · · Score: 5, Informative

    Ogg plugin for Quicktime (mac and win32):

    http://sourceforge.net/projects/qtcomponents/

    iTunes uses Quicktime for decoding. I haven't tested it yet (I'm still at work).

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    /// Zoid.
  3. Nomad works with iTunes by Shuh · · Score: 5, Informative



    I don't know where people are getting the idea that you need an iPod if you have iTunes. I've been using a Nomad IIc flash-player, and iTunes recognizes it and works with it through the USB interface just fine. Is this some FUD or what?