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TUAW Tip: iTunes Music Store Wishlist
Did you know that you can drag tracks (including videos) from the iTunes Music into a playlist? You sure can, but why would you want to? Many people lament the fact that they can't keep a wish list, or shopping cart, full of songs and shows that they might want to buy. Here's a solution for that:
1. Create a playlist called 'iTunes Wish List' (or whatever you would like to call it).
2. Drag tracks that you might want to buy at some point onto the playlist.
3. Those tracks are now waiting for you to buy them in one place.
Sure, this keeps your list on one machine so other folks can't see it (unless you are sharing your library over Bonjour), but it is better than nothing.
A picture of what the track listing looks like after the jump.
As you can see, you can even purchase a track right from the playlist. Cool, huh?
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
sma said 11:02AM on 2-15-2006
too bad you can't drag an entire album at once.
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David C. said 11:11AM on 2-15-2006
well i didn't know that. how nifty.
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Lcooper said 11:13AM on 2-15-2006
You can keep a shopping cart full of songs you want to buy. Just use the shopping cart preference in the store, and when you want to buy something just click on the song or album's "buy song" or "buy album" you want to purchase instead of the "buy now" button at the bottom of your shoppig cart. You then just purchase the individual song or album instead of the entire cart. Or you can use the playlist thing, but I don't like keeping up with a lot of playlists, and sometimes I accidently delete them.
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brandon M said 11:42AM on 2-15-2006
All right Experimental Film
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Jacob Varghese said 11:42AM on 2-15-2006
This must be a joke. The shopping cart has been a feature in iTunes for a while. I use it all the time and it carries over to any PC where you are signed in.
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Neil Wood said 11:48AM on 2-15-2006
Hi there, I don't understand this post because itunes does have a shopping cart where you can store all or any songs videos etc until a moment that you wish to purchase. I'm running itunes 6.0.2 and the shopping cart is right underneath the music store access link
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matthew said 11:57AM on 2-15-2006
there is a cart, but this is pretty nice too.
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Jason said 12:00PM on 2-15-2006
Seems like a great idea, especially if you take it to the next level. With an iTunes to HTML export utility, you could publish a wish list of songs for your friends on your website, or even set up a RSS feed to watch for changes. Beats Amazon, where you can only put albums on your wish list.
A quick search at versiontracker comes up with lots of iTunes to HTML utilities: http://tinyurl.com/cpt85
And for Windows users: Can't really find a solution, I would recommend a iTunes to M3U export utility (lots for free out there), and then an online M3U to HTML converter.
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Jason said 12:10PM on 2-15-2006
I should be clear about my tip of exporting a playlist:
On both Mac and Windows, if you single-click any playlist, then go File > Export Song List this will export the XML for just that playlist, not your entire library. This would then give you the XML for just that Wish List playlist, and from there you could convert into HTML and share with the rest of the world.
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Kevin said 12:35PM on 2-15-2006
Another neat thing about a "wishlist" playlist is that the "Buy Song" button is replaced with the actual song after purchase.
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Santiago said 1:23PM on 2-15-2006
yes, TMBG!
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Lee said 2:08PM on 2-15-2006
I use a slight variation on this. I have a 'To Buy' folder. Whenever I see a song that I would like to purchase I just drag it into that folder. Every once-and-a-while I will go to this folder, take a look at the songs that I was thinking about purchasing, and purchase a few of them that I want the most.
This helps me control my spending on iTunes and prevents me from purchasing frivolous music.
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James said 2:34PM on 2-15-2006
you could always just make that playlist an iMix... everything in that list is already on the store, so you could just make a TUAW Wishlist iMix... try it out, see if that works
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Joe said 3:20PM on 2-15-2006
A shopping is available under Preferences it Is easy to activate and albums can be added to it for purchase later.
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Andy said 3:20PM on 2-15-2006
Great tip, Scott. I had the same idea as James, and actually just wrote an article about it at my site along with instructions on how people can gift the music to you.
The permalink is http://www.ipodnirvana.com/2006/02/15/wishlists-at-itunes-music-store/
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Jason Anderson said 5:35PM on 2-15-2006
I don't like the shopping cart. Because I want to download the song right away.
I do like this though. It's even smart enough to know when a song you added to it has already been bought.
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cameron aka desk003 said 4:47PM on 2-16-2006
iTunes playlist to HTML for Windows, Mac, and Linux.
http://spark.is-a-geek.net/itunesxhtmlplaylist/
There, all of you people who want it.
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