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10 billion iTunes songs downloaded

Tales — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 10:42:55 +0000

Yesterday Apple announced that it had reached 10 billion music downloads from the iTunes store. During the countdown Apple was also running the contest "Countdown to 10 Billion Songs". The winner of this contest is Louie Sulcer of woodstock, Georgia. He downloaded the song "Guess Things Happen That Way" by Johnny Cash. He will be receiving a $10.000 iTunes Gift Card.

Full press release after the break.

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Macrumors

iTunes Holiday Sampler

Tales — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 18:38:22 +0000

Apple released a Free Holiday album to promote the new iTunes LP format. The album comes with 20 Free holiday orientated songs and comes with allot of extras like a nice visualizer, lyrics and artist information. The 'iTunes Holiday Sampler' can be download for free here. Please note that you need a US iTunes Store account. If you are located in Europe check out the '12 Days. 12 Free Downloads.' promotion.

iTunes Store gets 'Preview All' on albums.

Tales — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 15:58:43 +0000

iTunes has added a 'preview all' option to its store. This lets you listen to a 30 second clip of every song on the album. Although this feature isn't really new as you have been able to preview by double clicking a song, it makes it a whole lot easier to get a fast impression of an album. Click 'Preview All', sit back and enjoy the tunes.

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TUAW

iTunes LP goes open, might be included in iDVD '10?

Tales — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 15:08:06 +0000

Apple released iTunes LP simultaneously with iTunes 9 back in September. It's Apples digital answer to the old Jewel cases. When you buy an iTunes LP album from the iTunes store you get an extra package besides the songs. This package contains a pretty menu and tons of extras like behind the scenes footage, exclusive interviews and music videos. You can view iTunes LP content on a Mac/PC with iTunes 9 or higher or on an Apple TV with the latest s/w update. Biggest problem which people were having was that it wasn't documented how to make that extra package. Apple has changed that by releasing the iTunes LP/extras SDK for developers. This will make it possible for indie/major artists to release their own iTunes LP content.

Besides this Boy Genius Report is reporting that Apple will revamp the current iDVD version with the release of iLife '10. Their 'pretty accurate' source reports that Apple will add iTunes LP to the next version. iDVD was one of the only apps in the iLife suite to not get an update with the iLife '08 to '09 changeover.

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Boy Genius Report

More than 2 Billion Apps downloaded from the iTunes Appstore

Tales — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 14:44:24 +0000

Today Apple announced that more then 2 billion pps have been downloaded from the iTunes App Store. They also mentioned that currently over 85,000 apps are available for more than 50 million iPhone and iPod touch users. How many apps are rejected and/or pulled from the Store is unknown.

Full Press Release after the break.

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ApplePR