Apple Music Stations

I definately try now that I placed my order for a pod...:)...Finally, after 5 months!

As sold Apple don't allow you to pull music off your iPod. If you downloaded music from an AppleStore to your iPod it would only be usable on it or via iTunes on it.

Unless you can burn a playlist from your iPod (not able to try that atm) this seems like a pretty dumb thing to do.

I've had my iPod mysteriously reset itself once (deleting all of the content) and have had to revert to a previous software version once (deleting all of the content). This seems too much like throwing money away to me.

This is not all that exciting for me, but seems like a good idea. Obviously anyone with a mac capable of running iTunes 4 and a high speed internet connection will opt to download music at home, so this severely limits the percentage of people in the apple store that would care for this. As far as downloading onto an ipod goes, because you can't upload from your ipod onto your computer, it seems kind of silly (unless it's a lot cheaper). THe only ipod owner who might be interested is the windows user (at least for the next 7 months or so)... otherwise it just makes more sense to download at home. It seems like a nice thing just as a way for apple to demonstrate in-store how easy the music store is to use and to show those who might be hesitant around in it.

As far as practical uses - that is buying a bunch of music and burning it because you feel like it, this doesn't seem all that practical (although it doesn't sound to bad for 99 cents a song... if I was planning on buying 4 different CDs at the CD store across the street, but I know that on those CDs there are only about 15 songs that I care to listen to, $15 sounds a lot nicer to my pockets than the $50-$60 I woulda spent on the CDs). It would be cool if Apple had some CD-stomping software running off the computers too. Maybe apple should include that software in iTunes 5. I think if apple had implemented all this technology to just have kiosks, it would be a dumb idea, but since the infrastructure is like 99% there already, implementing it is virtually free. It's a win-win situation. Another thing that they could do would be to allow people to burn the actual AAC files to a CD, then go home and register their home mac (or the one that they are buying) under the account that they used - go for a shopping spree at the apple store with their high speed connection, then bring home 20 songs. I don't know... it's not something that's exciting for us computer nerds with fast internet. We all had iTunes 4 installed by monday evening and had at least experimented with the Apple store. Not everybody's as curious or technologically adept I guess. It might piss off CD store that's across the street though.

I hope you can pay in cash... :)

and when you get home and plug it into your computer iTunes will erase the songs on your ipod that arent on your computer when it syncs.

phtht!

Now if only Apple sold porn like they sell music.


Really I think the selling Music in the Apple Store is a good idea. Just gear it towards teens.

Turn the apple store in to a hangout.

Originally posted by whfsdude
Now if only Apple sold porn like they sell music.


Really I think the selling Music in the Apple Store is a good idea. Just gear it towards teens.

Turn the apple store in to a hangout.

Best to purchase the domain www.appleporn.com while there's still time.

I can see it now: people performing their favorites scenes in front of a white background while singing BOW-CHICKA-BOW-WOW

Originally posted by whfsdude
Now if only Apple sold porn like they sell music.


Really I think the selling Music in the Apple Store is a good idea. Just gear it towards teens.

Turn the apple store in to a hangout.

That's the second dumbest idea I've ever heard!:D

An AppleHomies store.

Yep, then they'd really move some stock off the floor. (Just that noone would pay for it, it'd just somehow mysteriously disappear.):D

Why don't they just rent kiosks out at malls around the country?

It'll be able to show off the greatness of Macs, and it'll be cheaper than Sam Goodie right next door. They'll give you a CD-R and mix or buy and entire album right there just 9.99!
This would be great!!

All they need is a small kiosk maybe one or two Apple guys and a couple Macs and Internet of course, cheap and easy no need for a full Apple Store everywhere, it would be great advertisement for the store and for Apple in every city.

I can see this becoming really big.

Originally posted by Macrumors
Spymac reports that Apple will be featuring their new music service in special kiosks at Apple Stores:

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Presumably this service is still not available outside the US, which if I remember my geography correctly, means not available to MOST OF THE WORLD!!

Ummm, yep, pretty sure that's RIGHT!

Can we have some PERSPECTIVE please, in the reporting? I'm just getting a bit frustrated with the "World Series Baseball" mentality (the World meaning the US).