Apple introduces My iTunes Widgets

Everything I've purchased through the store is for my 5 year old daughter. Think I want Britney, Christina, the Veronicas and Agadoo publicly associated with my name? Ag-a-don't!

Wow. This is really, really cheap... the kind of stuff AOL and Coke and Pepsi do. This is nothing more than advertising for the iTMS disguised as something cool for kids. Apple--you *are* cool. This is the kind of crap that companies like Frito-Lay and Energizer pull because they *wish* they were cool. This is almost as embarrassing as that make-your-own-Heinz-ad thing. Please Apple, don't devalue your brand like this.

NOTE: The only way to set your privacy for Flash is here:

http://www.macromedia.com/support/documentation/en/flashplayer/help/settings_manager02.html

Sadly very few understand this little detail about flash.

FYI, for those of you who want to run these widgets on your desktop outside of the browser, you can do that in a couple ways:

1) On the Mac, you can instantiate a new desktop widget from the widget code Apple provides using Amnesty Hypercube. Once the widget is running in Amnesty Hypercube you can also "push" it into your Dashboard with one click.

http://www.amnestywidgets.com/HypercubeMac.html

2) On the Mac (and Windows) you can convert the widget code Apple provides into a Dashboard (or Sidebar) widget using Amnesty Generator.

http://www.amnestywidgets.com/Generator.html

For a moment I thought Apple was going to do their own Last.fm* kind of trick... but when I discovered the iTunes Store limmitation I thought "never mind". Looks nice, but if you base my taste on the few things I have bought at their store the result is silly... and not suitable to be published on a website. * I really love to see a Last.fm/iTunes (the app) integration!

For my Music section on (insert social networking site here), I just use my Artists Rating for the Week widget. I don't buy music from iTunes - prefer to have a tangible copy of what I buy, with liner notes, just in case

I like Itunes buddy best, Shows all the hottest songs and albums aswell as the features from itunes.

http://www.apple.com/downloads/dashboard/music/itunesbuddy.html

Like most everyone else, I'm a bit miffed at the fact that it only displays 'purchased' music. It doesn't even bother to show all of the free stuff that I've downloaded through the store. And worst of all, as someone who never actually buys things off of the iTunes store, this widget gives no real representation of my library whatsoever. I am largely disappointed.

Looks like you can grab these from widgetbox as well: http://www.widgetbox.com/widget/my-itunes . They seem to let you change the widget afterwards and add it pretty easily to a bunch of popular places. I don't see install to wordpress but i guess you can use the widget code.

They also have a iMix-based widget that lets you build it off your iTunes playlist.

Our iPhone social network (irovr.com) allows you to download a desktop app that sends your currently playing track info to our site for perusal.