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Apple iPod event to focus on iTunes music discovery?
By Charles Starrett
Senior Editor, iLounge
Published: Tuesday, August 31, 2010
News Category: Apple, iTunes
A large portion of tomorrow’s Apple special event will be spent discussing improvements to iTunes’ music discovery features, a new report suggests. Citing unnamed sources, Cnet reports that Apple will double the length of song previews from 30 to 60 seconds in a bid to encourage users to find songs via iTunes instead of using increasingly popular services such as Pandora or YouTube. The report also claims that Apple’s rumored cloud-based music service is unlikely to be announced at the event. Apple’s 2010 iPod/music event will begin tomorrow at 10:00 a.m. Pacific Time.
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1
Funny, one of the ways I discover new music is through Apple’s iTunes RSS feeds.
Posted by Farnsworth on August 31, 2010 at 10:39 AM (PDT)
2
Bumping the preview to 60 seconds isn’t going to sell many more songs. To step up music sales, I wouldn’t be surprised to see Apple someday evolve iTunes to bridge the gap between music appreciation and social networking—get people talking about music and provide a simple way to preview and purchase songs directly from iTunes. This exists on sites like last.fm, but I’m surprised that Apple hasn’t gotten into the fray.
Posted by rockmyplimsoul on August 31, 2010 at 11:32 AM (PDT)
3
It’s about time they started offering music downloads in Apple Lossless,
bandwith now as is not an excuse as even a low res movie can top out over 1g and cds are under that.
Posted by Steve Bates on August 31, 2010 at 11:42 AM (PDT)
4
Heh-heh, did I call it or what?
Posted by rockmyplimsoul on September 1, 2010 at 11:09 AM (PDT)