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Search the iTunes4 Music Store from any browser Apps
The guys over at nslog.com have discovered how to search the Apple Music Store directly. This is very cool! Hope they don't mind me reprinting the info. The basic URL looks like this:
  itms://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZSearch.woa/wa/com.apple.jingle.
  search.DirectAction/advancedSearchResults?...
Note that the above should be one line (no extra spaces; shown on two to narrow the display), and you enter your search term instead of the "...". Click on the link and it will open in iTunes. For example, to search for "Maggie's Farm" by Bob Dylan, you'd use songTerm=Maggie's Farm&artistTerm=Bob Dylan as the search terms after the question mark (depending on your browser, you may have to use %20 instead of the spaces). Click this link for a clickable link test.

Rather than steal the glory of nslog in discovering this, I would recommend you visit the nslog.com site as linked above for more detailed info. Be sure and look at the Last Played page that apparently lists the last played items on their iTunes, and they have changed the links to be clickable links to the Apple Music Store.

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Search the iTunes4 Music Store from any browser
Authored by: Mr. X on May 02, '03 10:52:54AM

the title of this hint is kinda misleading. It should be something
more like: "link to any iTunes4 search result directly in
browser."



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Search the iTunes4 Music Store from any browser
Authored by: luhmann on May 02, '03 11:29:22AM

Here is a javascript bookmarklet that will give you a pop-up
window into which you can enter a search term. Works great in
Safari:

javascript:q=prompt('iTunes
Music%20Search:%20','');location.href='itms://
phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZSearch.woa/wa/
com.apple.jingle.search.DirectAction/search?term='+q';

Makes sure there are no line breaks.



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XML
Authored by: shmert on May 02, '03 12:16:20PM
What's interesting is, replace the itms:// with http://, and you can see the raw XML that the iTunes Music Store uses. Pretty fun! Try this: Japanese Cowboy, by Ween.

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Search the iTunes4 Music Store from any browser
Authored by: cpatch on May 02, '03 01:37:42PM

Doesn't work with IE on Windows, so maybe the title of the hint should be "Search the iTunes4 Music Store from any Mac browser" or even "Search the iTunes4 Music Store from Safari".

Craig



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Huh?
Authored by: kerouassady on May 02, '03 04:40:00PM

Why are you here?

www.MACOSxhints.com?



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Search the iTunes4 Music Store from any browser
Authored by: saint.duo on Aug 21, '03 11:28:54PM

This is because these are iTunes Music Store links. Hopefully they will work once iTunes for windows is out.

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Search the iTunes4 Music Store from any browser
Authored by: DougAdams on May 04, '03 02:00:05PM
Slightly off topic, but I just posted the AppleScript Search iTunes Store for Current which lets you to search the iTunes Music Store using your choice of track, album, artist, and composer criteria from the currently playing track or a single selected track.

Doug
Doug's AppleScripts for iTunes

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