Section 19. Browse the iTunes Music Store


19. Browse the iTunes Music Store

BEFORE YOU BEGIN

18 Sign Up for the iTunes Music Store


SEE ALSO

20 Purchase Audio from the iTunes Music Store

21 Purchase Music Using a Shopping Cart


With or without an iTunes' account, you can browse through the more than one and a half million songs in the iTunes Music Store and see what it's got to offer. However, if you want to purchase any music, you'll have to sign in with a valid Apple ID.

There are a number of ways to search for music in the store: You can go to a favorite genre and see top-selling artists , you can use the featured sections of newly added or popular albums on the main page, or you can go straight to a piece of music you know you want by searching directly for it by name . You can even browse all the categories of music in a columnar text browser similar to the navigation lists in iTunes itself.

1.
Sign In to the iTunes Music Store

In the iTunes' window, choose Music Store from the Source pane and connect to the store. If you are not already signed in, click the Sign In button in the upper-right corner of the screen and provide your Apple ID (or AOL screen name) and password to sign yourself in.

19. Browse the iTunes Music Store


2.
Browse Featured Sections

In the middle of the music store's Home page, stacked vertically and scrolling horizontally, are several sections showing newly available music in various categories: New Releases, Exclusives, Pre-Releases, Just Added , and Staff Favorites . Four albums are shown in each display; the little bubbles in the top center of each display area indicate how many pages of music there are for each category (usually 4, for a total of 16 albums per section). Use the left and right arrows to scroll from page to page (the colored bubble moves to show which page you're currently viewing), and click any displayed album to go to that album's download page.

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No matter how far you navigate into the music store, you can see the path from the Home page (indicated by a house icon) down to your current location in the bar above the Music Store display pane. Click any of the links in this path to return to that level; click the house icon to go back to the music store Home page. Use the left and right arrows to the left of the house icon to move back and forth through the history of your navigation throughout the storeno matter where a link takes you, you can always return to the previous page with the Back (left arrow) button.

3.
Browse by Genre

Return to the Home page of the music store by clicking the house icon in the navigation path. Use the drop-down list on the left side of the page to select a genre to browse. Each genre page has the same layout as the Home page, with scrollable sections arranged horizontally so that you can discover featured albums.

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From any of the major genre pages), you can click the names of the featured tracks in sections such as Today's Top Songs or Today's Top Albums ; these links take you to the download pages of the songs or albums in question.

4.
Search for Music by Name

If you know the name of the music you want, type it into the Search Music Store bar in the upper-right corner of the iTunes' window and press Return or Enter . The results that match your search terms are listed in the page that appears; you can go to the album or artist page for any of the matching songs by clicking the right-arrow icon next to any of the fields on the listed songs.

To narrow your search to a specific scope (for example, if you want to see results only when the album name matches your search term , not the artist or song name), click the magnifying glass icon to select the scope you want to use.

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The Power Search option (also available from the Home page by clicking the magnifying glass icon in the Search Music Store bar and choosing Power Search from the menu that drops down) lets you search for specific combinations of music, such as for tracks with a certain name on a specific album, or within a certain genre.

5.
Browse in Column View

One final way to browse the music store is to use the columnar Browse view, in which music is organized similarly to how you navigate iTunes itself in the Library view. Click the Browse button in the upper-right corner of the iTunes' window. The screen changes to a much more austere view, lacking any ads or unnecessarily attractive presentations, with nothing standing between you and the artist and albums you want.

First choose a Genre from the top-left list, then a Subgenre if available; then select an Artist from the next list (which is filtered by the selection you made in the first list or lists). You can double-click an artist name to go to that artist's discography, or instead select a single album from the Album list in the top-right list to see that album's available tracks. Double-click an album name to go to that album's download page.



iPod + iTunes for Windows and Mac in a Snap
iPod + iTunes for Windows and Mac in a Snap (2nd Edition)
ISBN: 0672328992
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 2005
Pages: 152
Authors: Brian Tiemann

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