Last week, Apple's iTunes Store turned 5 years old. Now the blogosphere is buzzing with the fact that Apple said they had over "10 million" songs in their library, then later changed the page to say "6 million." That's a difference of 4 million songs unaccounted for. MacNN did the math and said that if they had 10 million songs, it would have accounted for a 66% increase in their catalog in only a month. MacNN has before and after pictures of the iTunes Store page showing the changes. So... typo? Or is Apple doing some weird shuffling of their library?
[via MacNN]
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5-04-2008 @ 3:22PM
David Chartier said...
Typo. I highly doubt there's anything to see here folks. Move along.
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5-04-2008 @ 3:37PM
blinkcowz182 said...
Or maybe Apple's record label is about to launch and those 4 million songs were from pissed off record labels who are trying to destroy iTunes and Apple and take over the world?! Eh yeah probably just a typo.
5-04-2008 @ 3:35PM
Travis said...
I guess Steve Jobs wasn't using Time Machine.
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5-04-2008 @ 3:39PM
W1nn370µ |{0$£0w$|{1 said...
You gotta shrink your library from time to time with so much warez these days. Every iTunes-User knows this.
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5-04-2008 @ 3:39PM
totoro said...
Are you saying that the 10 million claim has been around for a while, and recently was downgraded to 6 million? Or was the 10 million claim just for a couple days/weeks?
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5-04-2008 @ 3:39PM
Ralph said...
Someone on the linked site said maybe 10 million is worldwide and 6 million is US. Not too far of a stretch, as there's a lot of iTunes Stores and some may be country-exclusive.
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5-04-2008 @ 3:42PM
David said...
Maybe it is 10 million songs but.....like my iTunes Library, I have lots of compilations discs, and therefore duplicates? :p
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5-04-2008 @ 3:51PM
raydafunk said...
You got me in that one.
5-04-2008 @ 3:49PM
raydafunk said...
Well the whole ten million songs could actually still be true, here is what i think, duplicated songs. The same song could be in 10 compilations, all they see in their data base is that there are 10 more different songs in their list, what they don't know is how many times is that song duplicated. So it is really easy to cover that one up. Thats just my guess.
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5-04-2008 @ 3:59PM
David said...
Isnt that what I jsut said?
Although I was kinda joking about it but...maybe it is possible?
5-04-2008 @ 4:00PM
John Russell said...
It's obviously a result of the fact that the Beatles catalogue consists of four million songs. The guys at Apple simply forgot that they are still hiding them from the public.
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5-04-2008 @ 4:36PM
Sabi said...
*sniff*
I smell sarcasm
*sniff*
5-04-2008 @ 4:33PM
RobK said...
Someone should sue Apple for false and misleading advertising....
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5-04-2008 @ 6:57PM
Derek said...
Why? It isn't a subscription based service, if the music they want isn't there, they don't buy anything. They haven't lost anything.
5-04-2008 @ 11:13PM
artifex said...
Yes, we need another idiot to laugh at.
5-04-2008 @ 4:54PM
Doug Adams said...
10 million world-wide, 6 million US. *yawn* Ping me if some important news develops.
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5-04-2008 @ 5:09PM
josh said...
will do, doug :/
5-04-2008 @ 6:15PM
Scotty said...
i know why...
it's cause those extra 4 million songs are exclusively for the 3G iPhone, about to be launched Down Under!
Apple has just discovered there are a few other countries in the world, outside America.
next... prices around the world will reflect similarly with US store.
...pigs might fly too
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5-04-2008 @ 6:23PM
table said...
Referencing MacNN by citing their journalistic findings on the results of 4-divided-by-6 was a bit condescending.
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5-04-2008 @ 7:14PM
Rob said...
How many songs did the Beatles write exactly....? ;0)
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