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Widget Watch: OnTour - know when your favorite iTunes artists are in town

by David Chartier (RSS feed) on Oct 8th, 2006

OnTour is a Dashboard widget that scans your iTunes library and offers concert notifications when the artists you actually listen to are coming to a venue near you. The widget uses OnTour.net to collaborate all this information, and links are provided to buy tickets, as well as to the iTS in case you need to brush up on your choruses. To top things off, the OnTour.net site itself provides even more links to discographies and Google maps for directions. Nice.

[via Lifehacker]

Tags: artist, artists, concert, concerts, dashboard, its, itunes, ontour, store, ticket, tickets, widget, widgets

Filed under: Audio, iTS, Video, Widget Watch

Widget Watch: Check new releases by artists in your iTunes library with newTunes

by David Chartier (RSS feed) on Jul 9th, 2006


Tired of browsing the (often late) New Release emails from the iTMS to find out whether an artist you actually care about has released a new album? Sick of adding an 'Artist Alert' for each of the hundreds of artists cataloged in your vast library? Well pound those keys no more, frustrated iTMS shopper, for the newTunes widget has arrived. This widget tells you when new music you actually care about has been released by watching for new and upcoming work from the artists already in your library.

Don't you love it when computers actually do the work for you, instead of creating more work for you to do? newTunes is freeware and can be had from Apple's Dashboard downloads section.

Tags: album, albums, apple, artist, artists, dashboard, itms, itunes, mac, music store, MusicStore, newtunes, os x, OsX, song, songs, widget, widgets, widgetwatch, work

Filed under: Audio, iTS

Who needs a record label? Submit your own music to the iTMS with Tunecore

by David Chartier (RSS feed) on Apr 25th, 2006

Are you a musician with some tracks that deserve their time in the iTMS spotlight? No one's promising you'll make the Top Songs list, but Tunecore can at least help you take a shot.

While Apple offers an online application through which you can ask them to 'consider your music for the iTMS,' Tunecore (notice the hip 'beta' marking) can actually submit your music to not only the iTMS, but Rhapsody, MusicNet and Napster too. They offer what I would consider a reasonable one-time fee structure (meaning: the don't take a % of each song/album sale), and they can add your music to a number of international stores (not just the U.S.) with 'more coming soon!' One last feature to note about their service which might be music to indie musicians' ears: you keep all the rights and ownership of your music, i.e. - Tunecore a middle-man who actually remains a middle-man.

This sounds like a great service. I hope more musicians can use it to hop on the digital distribution bandwagon.

[thanks Andre Dupont!]

Tags: artist, distribute, independent, indie, iTMS, iTunes Music Store, ItunesMusicStore, music, musician, submit, Tunecore

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