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Apple removing the iTunes phone 100 song cap?
I can neither confirm nor deny the legitimacy of this, but TUAW reader Jake sent us a tip with an iTMS screenshot detailing an upcoming possibility of removing the 100 song cap on iTunes phones. From the screenshot it looks like Apple might soon offer the ability to purchase what I would assume to be a software upgrade to remove the software-based 100 song cap on the phone.
Jake claims to have followed a number of code snippets he found in the latest iTunes update, version 6.0.3. Check out his post for the full details on the steps he took, and check out the actual page in the iTMS. For now, however, I don't know anyone with a ROKR who could take this one step further. If anyone can confirm this page in the iTMS is real, is brave enough to plug their ROKR in and click OK, feel free to sound off. If this is true, it could be a sign that Apple and Motorola are finally listening to the market and removing a silly limitation that should never have existed in the first place. One can only hope.
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Jarrod Turner said 11:40PM on 2-15-2006
itmss://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZFinance.woa/wa/upgradePhone.
You could go there yourself if you'd like. It worked for me, at least.
Seems like apple is feeling the heat from the deal Motorola signed with Microsoft.
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Jarrod Turner said 11:42PM on 2-15-2006
D'oh. Minus that little period at the end there.
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Skunk said 11:45PM on 2-15-2006
it works look at this image on windows
http://img113.imageshack.us/img113/3483/itunes1ga.png
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gozer said 11:49PM on 2-15-2006
updated my ROKR and still limited to 100 songs.
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commiepenguin said 12:06AM on 2-16-2006
I updated my slvr and it still says "77/100," but I haven't tried adding more songs yet.
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Christopher von Eitzen said 12:08AM on 2-16-2006
Tried it with my SLVR phone. Says it worked but can't add past 100 songs:((
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chrisjur said 12:32AM on 2-16-2006
Updated my SLVR at first and nothing happened. Reloaded the page and got this screen, which says my phone has been updated:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/chrisjur/100326143/
SLVR still says 100 songs max on it :(
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Kristiano said 1:46AM on 2-16-2006
You are charged US$44.95 if you want an upgrade. It offers me the chance to raise the cap on my Asian Motorola V3i to 100 from 50. I'm not doing it.
See this (http://ionmac.com/cats.php?subaction=showfull&id=1140067921&archive=&start_from=&ucat=3&) for more info.
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Kaegan Donnelly said 2:56AM on 2-16-2006
If it charges you money, that's ridiculous. It won't be long before someone hacks it.
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El Payo said 3:42AM on 2-16-2006
When I connected my ROKR via USB cable a dialog box appeared saying 'there's a software update' available message. Then says I successfully upgraded the phone. Still has a 100 song limit.
Post-upgrade screenshot: http://homepage.mac.com/payote/itms.png
S/W version is R373_G_0E.30.34R_A - anyone have something later?
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El Payo said 3:45AM on 2-16-2006
Wow. Weird formatting error:
Try this link http://homepage.mac.com/payote/itms.png
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Chris said 3:47AM on 2-16-2006
The site seems to be active worldwide, there's a german located screen on this in the german iTMS.
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El Payo said 3:53AM on 2-16-2006
iTunes software on the phone is still at version 1.0 - probably don't have the update ready to roll out just yet.
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totalester said 4:05AM on 2-16-2006
Now all they've got to do is release iTunes for Symbian, then I can use it on my Nokia and not have to buy one of those awful Motorola phones!
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Gui Leite said 6:40AM on 2-16-2006
Since Apple did not release a version in Brazilian Portuguese, I've been translating iTunes since version 5. The upgrade thing has been on iTunes since version 5, buried inside the program, so that was Apple's plan from the beggining.
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CArringt said 10:35AM on 2-16-2006
So did it take off the 100 songs cap or not? if it doesn't take the cap off what exactly does it do?
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Joe Z. said 12:08PM on 2-16-2006
It all makes sense now. The Cingular marketing materials for the ROKR and SLVR do mention that these phone comes upgraded with a 512MB memory card. When I connected my phone to iTunes this morning and clicked okay, I received a messgae that the phone is already upgraded. Thus, this is truly only relevant for the foreign markets where this is a smaller than 100 song cap... until Apple decideds to have mercy on us in the US and raise the cap beyond 100 songs.
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Jargon said 1:21PM on 2-16-2006
Yeah when I upgraded iTunes and opened it again it popped up that screen at me, even though I have never plugged in an iTunes phone.
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bliss said 3:08PM on 2-16-2006
Just found out that the upgrade is mainly for non-US users who have phones that have song limits as low as 25. The 100 song cap remains intact, but it'll probably only a matter of time before we see upgrades past the 100 songs...WAHOO!
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