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iTunes Sells 500 Millionth Song
TJPile writes "Apple's iTunes Music Store can now say half a billion served. One look at Apple's front page says it all. Sunday, at 2:44PM EST, Amy Greer of Lafayette, Indiana bought Faith Hill's Mississippi Girl to win."
"One look at Apple's FRONT page says it all." That's http://www.apple.com/ I can't help it if the editors butcher my submissions. I had links to Apple.com, the iTunes Music Store, and the winning song in my submission, but they were cut.
None of them.
According to the promotion rules,
"1) downloading a song from iTunes (any free downloads will be deemed an ineligible entry)" -r.
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Apple's iTunes Music Store can now say half a billion served. ...Except that you didn't link to their lovely half-a-billion front page, you linked to the store page which they forgot to update since 'over 430,000 '.
For the teeming horders: clicky on the apple in the top left, et voila.
"Those who cast the votes decide nothing; those who count the votes decide everything." (attrib. Joseph Stalin)
>All the same, though, knowing that I only have 5 format/reinstalls before my music becomes untouchable isn't good enough.
From the Apple website:
To deauthorize all computers associated with your account:
Click Music Store in the Source list.
If you're not signed in to the store, click the Account button, then enter your account name and password.
Click the Account button again (your ID appears on the button), enter your password, and then click View Account.
In the Account Information window, click Deauthorize All.
...and that's all there is to it.
There are ways of getting around the DRM. For one, you can just use a converter. I just converted about 50 or so of my protected files into MP3's that can be played on any ordinary MP3 player, using JHymn.
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You didn't expect that sales would suddenly accelerate up to the 500M mark, what with that enormous prize Apple was dangling out there for all to see?
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Yes but I think since you dropped all those acronyms it would put you in the Uber column.
My brother who just got an iPod shuffle is an Electrical engineer and he would have no idea what OGG Vorbis is or why he would want to encode to FLAC. All he wants is something he can put songs on to so he can play music when he works out. So I think there is just a small minority that just likes to complain that they can't do everything with the music. Besides what is stopping you from burning the music to CD and the ripping it back into your computer with out DRM. Yea Yea it is a few more steps but not impossible.
Not like what the video content providers what to do with the Broadcast flag where you will not be able to record a show at all. Or maybe just record it for a set period of time. Now that's worth complaining about. Or DRM that is worked into the OS where as you need a DRM monitor to watch HighDef video. That I will complain about!
-S
It is said that a child learns wisdom from the parent,
but the truly wise parent learns joy from the child
What he mentioned deauthorizes ALL computers EVER authorized by iTMS with your account - whether the computers still exist or not.
You can use it once a year.
Since it seems like you only use one computer with your iTunes account, that'll take you back to 5 "reformats"...or just remember to deauthorize before you reformat next time to avoid all this in the future.
The point is I just lost about 90$ in music
You're either ignorant or flamebait. Contact iTMS support and they will reset your authorised computer list for you, allowing you to re-authorise and play all your music again.
no, you haven't lost anything. If you follow the instructions, (sign into itunes, de-authorize, then reauthorize your newly formatted computer), youll regain access to all of your purchased music on that computer. I recently had to do the same thing, and once I learned how to deauthorize all, I had no problems getting it done.
When you authorize a computer, it send information about that computer to Apple's server, then checks against it when you want to play a protected song. if you deauthorize all computers, it clears the five fields in the database kept at Apple, and allows you to refill them with your five favorite computers again.
Oh, and you can deauthorize from ANY computer with itunes installed, it doesn't even have to be one that has ever been authorized in the past. So, go back and read the grandparent's instructions, follow them without whining, and you'll have your music back.
Whoever stated that signature sizes should be limited to one hundred and twenty characters can just go ahead and kiss my
Y'know... her tax bill is going to be rather larger because of this.
10,000 song card value: $9,900
10 x 50 song card value: $495
10 x iPod color 60gb: $3,990
4 Coldplay tickets and backstage passes: (no idea here, we'll go for $100 each): $400
Additional reported income: $14,785
Hopefully she'll be able to sell some of that stuff so she'll be able to pay taxes on the cash value. Apple is required to report the maximum possible value of these to the IRS, and it'll be included as income for 2005.
Maybe she's a housewife or a dependant and doesn't have much income for this to get tacked onto.
I'm almost positive that I remember hearing in one of the quarterly conference calls that any time Apple announces a number of songs downloaded for iTMS, that they always mean _paid_ downloads only. Frankly, if they were including free downloads, they could leave themselves open for claims of securities fraud -- what if 500 million songs only meant $200 million, when everyone clearly assumes its close to $1 per song. (Its not quite $1 because a lot of songs are bought in albums, where there is a bulk discount. But Apple has provided guidance in the past what the average $ per song is.)
I just found this out the hard way last night.
During the recent promotion with Pepsi, I did the tilt the bottle trick and scored about 6 free songs. My wife is not as into computers as I am and I figured this would be a good way to get her to use iTunes more. So I redeemed all 6 songs and showed her she had 6 credits on the iTunes Music Store to pick out songs she would like. I helped her pick one out and showed her how to buy it. She said she didn't want to use them all at once.
Flash forward 6 months...Last night my wife says she wants to get this song she heard from the iTunes Music store. Great! No, terrible. When we logged in we discovered that the 5 remaining credits had expired.
So you are correct. Very few songs ever actually get redeemed on way or an other.
Y'all are funny. I see post after post after post of a guy pointing out that DRM is a pain in the ass
Exactly. A guy. One guy.
One guy who made it harder than it had to be, and then crapflooded Slashdot by complaining in multiple posts about how it's somehow Apple's fault that his life became after he shot himself in the foot.
A couple of mouse-clicks make his problem go away. De-authorizing his computer before re-formatting makes his problem never come up in the first place. A free product for stripping DRM is out in the wild for him to download and side-step the entire issue, if he wants.
In other words, there's nothing going on here worth complaining about, so he must be doing so mainly for the fun of it.