29. Request Music from the Music StoreBEFORE YOU BEGIN 18 Sign Up for the iTunes Music Store 19 Browse the iTunes Music Store SEE ALSO 30 Watch for Newly Added Music Using an RSS Feed 31 Tell a Friend About the iTunes Music Store Even though the iTunes Music Store has more than one and a half million songs in its catalog with thousands more being added every week, there's bound to be some music you'd love to buy in crisp clear AAC format but that just doesn't seem to be available in the store. Apple expends great effort in finding music not just from the big labels, but from small and obscure publishers as well. But there are simply far too many albums being produced every year for Apple to feature all of them (to say nothing of all the albums that have been published throughout music history). Furthermore, some big- name artists are conspicuously absent from the iTunes Music Store ; these artists, such as Metallica or the Beatles, might have their own reasons for keeping their music out of the world's largest legal digital music downloading system, but for now there's nothing weor Applecan do but wait for the inevitability of progress to overtake them. (The Rolling Stones, originally missing from iTunes Library , are now prominently featuredperhaps a positive sign of things to come.) NOTE The Beatles are unlikely to appear in the iTunes Music Store anytime soon because of a long-standing legal trademark battle between Apple Computer, Inc. and the Beatles' label, Apple Records. The two firms have clashed numerous times over the years , usually whenever Apple Computer decided to add more sound or music features to the Macintosh platform. Naturally, when Apple became a music publisher with the iTunes Music Store , Apple Records was far from pleased. We probably won't see any Beatles music in the store until Steve Jobs pays a handsome settlement to the Apple Records legal fund. Nonetheless, the iTunes Music Store staff provides a mechanism for you to send them your requests for music that they simply haven't gotten around to adding yet. If they receive a lot of requests for a certain album or artist, that music is a lot more likely to show up soon than an album or artist that nobody's interested in. Communicate your interest and help make the iTunes Music Store as complete as it can be!
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