iTunes Articles on TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog

Asymco's Horace Dediu measures the iTunes video store

by Mike Schramm (Jun 19th, 2013)

The iTunes video store is a strange market to track. Most of Apple's attention and press these days is going to the App Store, and obviously iTunes wouldn't exist without the music store. But the video store, where you can buy and rent movies and ...

Avengers Alliance out now on iOS, Where's My Mickey coming tomorrow

by Mike Schramm (Jun 19th, 2013)

Disney's got two big releases arriving on the App Store last week and this week, one we've been waiting on for a while, and another that combines one of the company's oldest properties with one of the newest. The first is Avengers Alliance, ...

Half a million iTunes accounts are created each day

by Michael Grothaus (Jun 14th, 2013)

Asymco's Horace Dediu points out that, on average, over half a million iTunes accounts are being created each day. At WWDC this week, Tim Cook announced iTunes has 575 million accounts. Horace Dediu took that figure and calculated it with previous ...

iTunes Radio and 'ads' on the iOS 7 lock screen

by Steven Sande (Jun 11th, 2013)

Developers are starting to play with the iOS 7 beta, with iTunes Radio being a popular destination both for trying the new feature and for listening to music while coding. Neil Hughes at Apple Insider notes that for the first time, you may see an ...

Pandora isn't afraid of iTunes Radio

by Yoni Heisler (Jun 11th, 2013)

After years of speculation, Apple on Monday finally released iTunes Radio, Cupertino's take on a streaming music recommendation service. iTunes Radio, of course, is entering a market already populated by some heavy-hitting competition, namely ...

Streaming iTunes Radio service will be part of iOS 7

by Mike Schramm (Jun 10th, 2013)

Apple has introduced a music-streaming service called iTunes Radio that'll be found natively in the upcoming iOS 7. For now, the service will be right in the Music app on iOS, and will offer up a series of featured stations (including, for the ...

Reuters: Apple to show off iRadio streaming service next week

by Mike Schramm (Jun 6th, 2013)

Reuters is reporting that among the announcements we'll see at next week's WWDC keynote, Apple will introduce a new music-streaming service called iRadio. The service will be free and ad-supported, Reuters says those in the know claimed, and will ...

iTunes 11.0.4 arrives with some minor bug fixes

by John-Michael Bond (Jun 5th, 2013)

Apple has released a minor update for iTunes that fixes a few bugs in the program. According to the release notes for version 11.0.4, the update addresses a bug that would cause iTunes to quit when users switched between wired and wireless syncing. ...

Apple announces Justin Timberlake, Jessie J to headline this year's iTunes Festival in London

by Michael Grothaus (May 30th, 2013)

Apple today announced the dates of this year's iTunes Festival in London. It will run from September 1-30 at the Roundhouse in the Camden area of London. This year's festival will be headlined by artists including Justin Timberlake, 30 Seconds to ...

Reality Absorption Field: iPod's trail of tears, part 1

by Ross Rubin (May 24th, 2013)

The recent celebration of iTunes tenth anniversary provided an opportunity to remember that it debuted before the iPod and was initially positioned as a way to get Macs to play well with the CD burners that had come to the iMac as well as to early ...

When your iOS device runs out of storage space

by Kelly Hodgkins (May 17th, 2013)

Macworld Senior Contributor Kirk McElhearn has several excellent tips for iOS owners looking to sync their large iTunes library with their iPad, iPhone or iPod. Their libraries are so big that they exceed the capacity of their devices, which forces ...

iTunes 11.0.3 now available

by Dave Caolo (May 16th, 2013)

Check Software Update, because Apple has released iTunes 11.0.3. This update offers a few new features, including a new MiniPlayer that highlights album artwork and has a built-in progress bar. That should make many people happy. Also, iTunes 11.0.3 ...

New Daft Punk album Random Access Memories streaming on iTunes

by John-Michael Bond (May 13th, 2013)

The wait is over. Random Access Memories, Daft Punk's first proper album* since 2005's Human After All, is now streaming in its entirety over at iTunes. It features guest spots and contributions from Chilly Gonzales, Nile Rodgers, Pharrell ...

Microsoft: Apple reluctant to build a "Metro" iTunes for Windows 8

by Dave Caolo (May 10th, 2013)

While Microsoft has invited Apple to produce a Windows 8 iTunes app, Cupertino's response has essentially been "don't hold your breath." Speaking to CNNMoney, Microsoft's chief financial officer Tami Reller said, "The welcome mat has been laid out ...

Make Chrome open iTunes store links in iTunes

by John-Michael Bond (May 9th, 2013)

If you're having a hard time getting iTunes and App Store links to launch from Google Chrome right to the app from your browser, MacStories editor-in-chief Federico Viticci has found a nice workaround in the App Store support community. The ...

Apple posts 'Learn more about in-app purchases' in iTunes

by Kelly Hodgkins (Apr 26th, 2013)

Apple has been steadily beefing up its in-app purchasing policy to prevent children and adults from inadvertently buying items from within an app. As spotted by App Advice, Apple recently added a new disclaimer about in-app purchases to its App ...