Buying Tunes


After you have found music that you want to add to your Library, you can purchase it. How you do this depends on which shopping method you selected: 1-Click Shopping or the Shopping Cart method (if you don't know what I am talking about, take a look at Chapter 23).

Tip

When you log in to your account, you can indicate whether iTunes should remember your password for shopping purposes. If you allow this, you won't need to enter your password each time you purchase music. If you don't allow this, at some point in the process, you will be prompted to enter the password for the account you are currently signed on under to be able to complete a purchase.


Buying Tunes with the 1-Click Method

The 1-Click method is aptly and literally named. It really does require only a single click. To purchase an album, you click the Buy Album button. To purchase a song, you click the Buy Song button. In either case, whatever you selected will be immediately purchased and downloaded to your Library (see Figure 23.11). (Because you entered credit card information when you configured your iTunes Music Store account, you don't need to provide any payment informationafter you click the Buy button, the store automatically gets the information it needs to complete your purchase.) After the download process is complete, the music will be in your Library and it is now yours to listen to, put on a CD, and so on.

Figure 23.11. In the Information area of the iTunes window, you can see that I am currently downloading the album shown because I clicked the Buy Album button.


Buying Tunes with the Shopping Cart Method

Whereas the 1-Click method requires a single click to purchase music, the Shopping Cart method requires all of two or three clicks to accomplish the same resultthat being to add new music to your Library.

Tip

If you don't see the Shopping Cart source, click the expansion triangle next to Music Store. Music Store will expand and you will see your Shopping Cart.


When you find music in which you are interested, click either the Add Album button or the Add Song button to add an album or song, respectively, to your Shopping Cart source. When you do so, you will see a message in the Information area telling you that the item you selected has been added to your Shopping Cart (see Figure 23.12). Continue adding music to the Shopping Cart as long as you'd like.

Figure 23.12. Here I have added a song to my Shopping Cart.


When you are ready to buy music, select the Shopping Cart source on the Source List. You will see the music you have added to the cart (see Figure 23.13). The total cost of all the items in your cart is shown at the bottom of the window. To remove an item from the cart, select it and press the Delete key (or click the Remove button which is the "x" in the Price column). After you confirm this action at the prompt, the item will be deleted from the cart, and the cost information will be updated. When the cart contains only the music you want to buy, click the Buy Now button. The music in the cart will be downloaded to your Library. After the download process is complete, you can listen to it, put it in playlists, place it on CD, and so on. (Just like the 1-Click method, you don't need to enter payment information because that is stored as part of your iTunes Music Store account and is provided for you automatically.)

Figure 23.13. You can view the contents of your Shopping Cart and purchase the music it contains.


Tip

You can also buy individual songs or albums in your cart without buying everything stored there by clicking the Buy or Buy Song button next to the item you want to purchase.




iPod + iTunes Starter Kit
iPod and iTunes Starter Kit (2nd Edition)
ISBN: 078973463X
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 2003
Pages: 187

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