Section 21. Purchase Music Using a Shopping Cart


21. Purchase Music Using a Shopping Cart

BEFORE YOU BEGIN

18 Sign Up for the iTunes Music Store

20 Purchase Audio from the iTunes Music Store


SEE ALSO

22 Check for Purchased Music


Normally, the iTunes Music Store is set up so that a single click of a Buy Song or Buy Album button charges your credit card and immediately downloads your selected music. However, this might not be the best solution for you; if you have a slow dial-up connection, or if you prefer to keep your purchases in a holding area while you decide how and when to purchase them (for example, if you want to keep yourself on a budget but want to keep track of the music you want to get someday), a "shopping cart" might be just the thing you need.

When you use a shopping cart, instead of Buy Song and Buy Album buttons , you'll see Add Song and Add Album buttons; clicking these buttons adds the music to your shopping cart rather than downloading it immediately. You aren't charged for any music in your shopping cart until you decide to download it. You can remove items from the cart or buy individual songs or albums from the cart without paying for everything at once.

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A shopping cart gives you versatility you wouldn't otherwise have, especially if you use iTunes on more than one computer. As an example, you can browse the music store and add music to the shopping cart while you're at work (while you're on break, of course), and then open up the shopping cart from your home computer and purchase its contents. Your Apple ID and password keep your shopping cart safe and secure.


1.
Sign In to the iTunes Music Store

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

2.
Set iTunes to Purchase Using a Shopping Cart

Choose Edit, Preferences (Windows) or iTunes, Preferences (Mac) to display the Preferences window. Click the Store tab.

21. Purchase Music Using a Shopping Cart


Change your shopping mode by selecting the Buy Using a Shopping Cart radio button and click OK . When you change this setting, the Music Store option in the Source pane becomes a first- tier item with both the Purchased Music playlist and the Shopping Cart option beneath it.

3.
Navigate to the Music You Want

As described in 19 Browse the iTunes Music Store , navigate the iTunes Music Store to find music you're interested in buying.

4.
Add Music to Your Shopping Cart

When you decide you want to add a song to your shopping cart, click the Add Song button. Similarly, add an entire album to the cart by clicking the Add Album button.

5.
View Your Shopping Cart

Choose Shopping Cart from the Source pane (you might have to expand the Music Store option to see it by clicking the triangle icon to the left of the Music Store option). In the Shopping Cart screen, all the tracks and albums you placed in the cart are listed at the bottom; the top of the screen shows a set of albums suggested by the iTunes Music Store database as being of possible interest to you based on the contents of your cart. You can add any of these albums to the cart by clicking its Add Album button.

NOTE

If you try adding a song or album that's already in the cart, iTunes gives you an error message explaining that you can't add the same music twice. If you're not using a shopping cart and you try to download music that matches music already in your library, iTunes gives you a warning asking whether you really want to download the same song again.

Double-click any song in the cart to hear a 30-second preview clip. For albums in the cart, double-click the album entry or click the triangle icon next to the album's name to see all the tracks in the album.

6.
Purchase Music in Your Shopping Cart

You can purchase any individual album that's in the cart by clicking the Buy button; this process is the same as if you weren't using a shopping cart and clicked the Buy Album button on the album's download page. Similarly, click Buy Song to purchase any individual song in your shopping cart. If you're feeling wealthy and want to buy everything in your shopping cart at once, use the Buy Now button at the bottom of the screen. Be sure to take a look at the total price of the cart's contents next to the button before you splurge! Click the round X icon to the right of the Buy or Buy Song button to remove any item (album or song) from your shopping cart.



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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