iTunes Offers RSS Feeds

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Posted by pudge on Thursday January 22, 2004 @10:55PM from the money-maker dept.

TheChocolatay writes "iTunes is now offering RSS Feeds for the latest happenings in the Music Store. Users can set up their parameters for a feed at Apple's iTunes Music Store RSS Generator. After you have set your parameters, just sit back as the news and track listings are sent to your favorite RSS Reader."

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Re:What the fuck? by Tego · 2004-01-22 23:03 · Score: 5, Informative

RSS feeds are a kind of XML format into which headlines of all posted stories of a website are summarized.
Re:What the fuck? by Tego · 2004-01-22 23:11 · Score: 4, Informative

Or more detailed :
The RDF Site Summary is actually an extension to the RDF language. Quoting the official RSS v1.0 specification: 'RDF Site Summary (RSS) is a lightweight multipurpose extensible metadata description and syndication format. RSS is an XML application, conforms to the W3C's RDF specification and is extensible via XML-namespace and/or RDF based modularization.'

(http://web.resource.org/rss/1.0/spec)
Re:URL? by Meowing · 2004-01-22 23:35 · Score: 5, Informative

Don't worry about it too much. Apple owns a big chunk of Akamai, and is also its largest customer.
RSS Readers for OS X by l0wland · 2004-01-23 00:27 · Score: 4, Informative

Yes, I am playing the karma-whore here, but still:
RSS Readers for OS X

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Finnally ... by Sonic+McTails · 2004-01-23 01:14 · Score: 4, Informative

I can just open my RSS reader and know if the cd I want has (finnally) made it to the iTMS, and not have to bother searching whats new. I'm happy that it's easily to see what's new, even though you still do need an additional program.

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Get the feeds on your iPod by rf600r · 2004-01-23 01:59 · Score: 4, Informative

By using this spiffy program to sync it. Well, if you have an iPod. Oh, and a Mac. Please donate to the author.