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Create links to the iTunes Music Store Apps
Ever wonder how you can give an iTunes Music Store search result to a friend using a web page? Here's how:
itms://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZSearch.woa/wa/advancedSearchResults?
  &artistTerm=artist_name
Note: The above is one long line with no additional spaces; it was shown here with a line break for a narrower display. Replace artist+name with the actual artist's name, i.e. led+zeppelin.

I'd be curious if other people can find out how to link to specific artist pages and so on!
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BBEdit iTMS Glossary
Authored by: Anonymous on Oct 10, '03 10:59:45AM

A few months back, I posted a BBEdit Glossary for creating iTMS links. Useful if you write your HTML in BBEdit and want to link to the songs.

iTunes Music Glossary

The http links are rather useless now that Apple's encrypting the data, so I'll probably remove them at some point.

Yeah, it a gratuitous plug. Deal with it :-)



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BBEdit iTMS Glossary
Authored by: Anonymous on Oct 10, '03 12:32:54PM

Turns out the link broke when I moved to DreamHost. It's been fixed new - and here's a direct download link



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Create links to the iTunes Music Store
Authored by: DougAdams on Oct 10, '03 11:50:06AM
Gimme An ITMS Search String! is an AppleScript which "uses your choice of track, album, artist, and composer criteria from a single selected track to create a search string URL for the iTunes Music Store, which is then copied to your clipboard. From there you can send it to the iTMS or paste it as a live link (like this one) into an HTML document, email message, forum posting, or what have you."

Doug
Doug's AppleScripts for iTunes

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Create links to the iTunes Music Store
Authored by: Loren on Oct 10, '03 12:46:03PM
It's easy to link to s specific artist. You just need to know the artists ITMS artistId. Here's on to the Rolling Stones...

itms://ax.phobos.apple.com.edgesuite.net/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/com.apple.jingle.app.store.DirectAction/viewArtist?artistId=1249595

Unfortunately, I have no idea how to look up someone's artistId. I copied that link from one of the New Music Tuesday mailings. :-)

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iTMS Search Using Huevos
Authored by: 5chm31din6 on Oct 10, '03 02:28:25PM

Here's a thought: Add the below string into a new preference for the Huevos search utility and name it "iTunes Music Store"...

itms://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZSearch.woa/wa/advancedSearchResults?&artistTerm=%@

The %@ inserts your search string into the results.


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iTMS Search Using Huevos
Authored by: spalmer47 on Oct 10, '03 03:19:20PM

Works like a charm, I love that tool.

Does anyone know how to link to specific song previews? Say, if I found a song and wanted to have my friend listen to the preview?

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Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana. - Lisa Grossman



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Create links to the iTunes Music Store
Authored by: neuronwave on Oct 12, '03 05:38:22AM

Check out this blog on the itunes store interface under the covers..

http://www.neuronwave.com/2003_05_01_archives.php#93909680



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iTunes Catalog
Authored by: andrewz on Nov 03, '03 10:11:56AM
KavaSoft's new iTunes Catalog program can create web catalogs of your entire library, complete with links to the iTunes Music Store.

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Create links to the iTunes Music Store
Authored by: opudeldix on Nov 18, '03 06:57:54AM

Just take a look at this:

iTunes Music Store Link Maker

Life can be so easy ;-)



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