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Unlike buying a CD, where you sometimes have to pay for the whole album to get the two or three songs you really want, the iTunes Music Store lets you buy only the songs you really like and want to own. This gives you the ability to create that new mix CD with the greatest of ease. And if you want to buy the whole album, you can do that, too, quickly and easily. If you don’t have a broadband connection and can’t get one, use the shopping cart to hold all your music selections until you’re ready to buy. That way you can use your 1-Click account to make your purchase, and leave your computer to go do something else while your music downloads. With the iTunes Music Store, you don’t have to deal with the hassles of a subscription service or annoying advertisements that have nothing to do with music. For just 99¢ each, you get high-quality AAC music files that won’t disappear at the end of the month, or ever. In all, the iTunes Music Store offers music that’s fair to you, fair to artists and easy to enjoy.

Key Features of Apple Music Store:

• Purchase and download songs or albums with music videos; then watch the videos full screen on your Mac or PC
• View additional artist photos
• Browse music by subgenre
• Enhanced Essentials area offers additional ways to discover new music
• “Artist Alerts” notify you when we add music from your favorite artists to the iTunes Music Store
• Search iMixes by title
• More than 1.5 million tracks
• Find out what’s playing on more than 1,000 radio stations
• View movie trailers
• Use your AOL account
• Watch music videos
• Share music with up to five Macs and PCs
• Publish an iMix on the store
• Tell a friend about an album via email with cover art
• More than 11,000 audiobooks
• Save store previews in a playlist to purchase later
• Allowance accounts
• Gift certificates

iTunes Music Store has sold more than 400 million songs (May, 2005) and considered to be the #1 music download store according to Nielsen SoundScan. i-Tunes now offers 1.5 Million Songs to Preview for FREE , Buy and Download. Featuring hundreds of thousands of songs from major music companies including EMI, Sony/BMG, Universal, and Warner Bros, the iTunes Music Store offers more than 100,000 new tracks from independent artists and record labels. At Apple Music you’ll also find more than 150 exclusive tracks from such artists as Eminem, Gwen Stefani, Bob Marley and Andrea Bocelli, to name just a few. What’s more, you’ll also find and dozens of out-of-print Motown singles and jazz albums from the Verve Vault, both available digitally for the first time.

One of the many things you’ll love about the iTunes Music Store is how easy it is to shop for the music you like. Just enter your search criteria — artist, composer, title or genre — and the music store’s powerful search engine comes up with a matching list of tracks. Then sit back and listen to the free 30-second previews until you find the songs you’d like to own. Can’t quite make up your mind? Now you can save previews. Just create a new Playlist and drag them in. You can even drag them to your desktop or hard drive.

Apple Music - Just 99¢ a Song, Plus Generous Personal Use Rights
The iTunes Music Store lets you quickly find, purchase and download the music you want for just 99¢ per song. You can burn individual songs onto an unlimited number of CDs for your personal use, listen to songs on an unlimited number of iPods and play songs on up to five Macintosh computers or Windows PCs. And the iTunes software works so smoothly on both platforms that you can share music with any combination of Macs and Windows PCs on a local area network — regardless of whether you’re running iTunes on a Mac or PC.

Browse Music in the Store or from Your Own Library

Store all your songs in iTunes and listen via the jukebox or your iPod MP3 player. Download music from the store in AAC format for playback in iTunes or iPod. If you started transferring tracks on your CDs to your PC using Windows Media Player, that’s okay. As long they’re in unprotected format, iTunes lets you convert them easily, so you can listen to them in iTunes or on your iPod. AAC, for Advanced Audio Coding, is a big part of the MPEG-4 specification, and it’s perfect for the Internet. While it compresses audio much more efficiently than older formats (like MP3, which iTunes still supports, by the way) AAC delivers quality rivaling that of uncompressed CD audio. You can also save your CDs in iTunes using the new Apple Lossless encoder, which stores music at the highest quality but at about half the space of uncompressed files.

You can cruise the store by genre — including Rock, Jazz, Latin, New Age, Inspirational, Opera, R&B/Soul, Reggae and Soundtracks — or by artist or album. Double-click on track listings to hear 30-second, high-quality samples and to see digital album art. Or you can search by entering the name of an artist or composer, or the title of a song — or even part of the title — and clicking the Search button. Even easier, just click a Quick Link on an artist in your library to see the band’s entire repertoire. When you find something you like, buy it instantly or save the store preview in a playlist on your Mac or PC.

Make and Share Musical Discoveries
Want some help discovering great new music? The iTunes Music Store features crisply-written editorial content, complete with links to music. You can drag and create links to any store page, and even share your new-found favorites with friends by emailing them a link to a sound sample, artist or album page. Even better, you can share the playlists you make as an iMix on the store. Rate playlists from other music lovers to move them up and down the charts. See if you rate as a five-star music mixer. The iTunes jukebox includes a Music Sharing feature that uses Bonjour to give you remote streaming access to your personal music library from any room in your house. Let’s say, for instance, that you have thousands of AAC and MP3 music files stored on a Mac or Windows computer in your home office. The iTunes software works so smoothly on both platforms that you can share music with any combination of Macs and Windows PCs on a local area network — regardless of whether you’re running iTunes off a Mac or PC. And you won’t have to manually configure anything, either, because iTunes automatically senses when other people are also running the software.

Discover and Explore
Celebrity playlists will help you discover and explore new music. View playlists hand-picked by celebrities and with one click own all their recommendations. Read what they say about what inspired their playlists. Already have a few of their recommended tracks? No problem: simply use the Buy Now button next to the songs that you don’t have. Top Songs and Top Albums lists on the home page let you know what’s hot, and you’ll find Top / Best Downloads lists and related music suggestions throughout the store. Did you hear a song on the radio but don’t know what it is? Now you can find out what’s playing on more than 1,000 stations around the US and buy that catchy tune. And here’s something brand new: some singles and albums now come with a bonus music video. Purchase and download the song or album, and you also get a music video you can watch full screen any time you want.

Videos and Movie Trailers
If you have a broadband connection, you can check out the exclusive full-length music videos that you can watch right in the store. If you like what you see, just buy the tune immediately. Or check out the latest movie trailers in full screen, and buy songs from the soundtrack or an associated audiobook. iTunes includes a well-stocked library of best-selling audiobooks — 11,000 titles and counting. The iTunes Music Store offers everything you need to grow your music collection with ease, give music to friends and family, and expand your musical knowledge in the process. And it’s all waiting for you inside the world’s best digital jukebox.

Apple iPod

Apple iPod photo 60GB Though it's no bigger than a pack of playing cards and weighs just over 6 ounces, iPod photo delivers a 1-2 sensory punch, letting you carry your favorite photos as well as your m usic lus 60 GB. The razor sharp LCD display lets you see your photos in vivid color--65,536 colors to be exact. Offers 220 x 176-pixel resolution, and combined with the new Myriad typeface, it's effortless to read. Features the touch-sensitive Apple Click Wheel made famous by the original iPod. Use the included AV cable to connect iPod photo to a TV or projector and have an instant slideshow, fully customizable with your music library. It even optimizes your photos to fit on a standard or widescreen TV! iTunes 4.7.1 lets you import your images directly into iPod photo, so it's just as easy as loading songs. iPod photo also has improved battery life, with a full charge letting you enjoy up to 15 hours of continuous music, or 5 hours of photo slideshows with music. Charges quickly with the FireWire or USB 2.0 cables. 40GB capacity lets you carry up to 15,000 - 4-minute songs at 128Kbps AAC encoding, or 25,000 iTunes-transferred photos.

Apple iPod photo 30GB Though it's no bigger than a pack of playing cards and weighs just over 6 ounces, iPod photo delivers a 1-2 sensory punch, letting you carry your favorite photos as well as your music, plus 30 GB. The razor sharp LCD display lets you see your photos in vivid color--65,536 colors to be exact. Offers 220 x 176-pixel resolution, and combined with the new Myriad typeface, it's effortless to read. Features the touch-sensitive Apple Click Wheel made famous by the original iPod. Use the included AV cable to connect iPod photo to a TV or projector and have an instant slideshow, fully customizable with your music library. It even optimizes your photos to fit on a standard or widescreen TV! iTunes 4.7.1 lets you import your images directly into iPod photo, so it's just as easy as loading songs. iPod photo also has improved battery life, with a full charge letting you enjoy up to 15 hours of continuous music, or 5 hours of photo slideshows with music. Charges quickly with the FireWire or USB 2.0 cables. 40GB capacity lets you carry up to 10,000 - 4-minute songs at 128Kbps AAC encoding, or 16,000 iTunes-transferred photos. Also available with 60GB capacity.

Apple U2 Special Edition 20GB iPod Jet black, bearing a prominent red Apple click wheel, and the autographs of each U2 member, this iPod is like no other.

Apple iPod 20 GB Incorporating the fabulous Apple Click Wheel that was first introduced on iPod mini. Offering 20GB - up to 12 hours of battery life. Weighing in at just 5.6 ounces and getting slightly thinner with each new generation. iPod continues to define the perfect digital music player for Mac and Windows.A musical dream come true, the fourth-generation iPod offers huge capacity, letting you easily slip up to 10,000 songs into your pocket. And enjoy it wherever you go. In the car. On the treadmill. At the office. Around the house.A Click in the Right DirectionThough ease of use has always been the hallmark of iPod, Apple believes in constantly moving perfection forward. So the iPod now incorporates the same touch-sensitive Apple Click Wheel that debuted on the iPod Mini. Without lifting that trusty thumb of yours from the wheel, you can easily select playlists, scroll through thousands of songs, and start the music playing. Want that song to play from the beginning again? A single click will do the trick.Do the iPod ShuffleYou can put the Apple Click Wheel to use the next time you want to set your music to shuffle. Right there on the main menu... where it's very easy to find... you'll find a new option... Shuffle Songs. Everyone's favorite option for mixing things up, Shuffle Songs randomly plays songs in a selected playlist or your entire music collection. You'll never guess what's coming up next, so you're always...

Apple iPod mini 6GB Silver Weighing in at just 3.6 ounces and smaller than many cell phones, the iPod mini fits your lifestyle and your bag, whether it be cocktail purse or messenger duffle. The chic, matte anodized aluminum case resists stains and scratches, all the while protecting your iPod mini 6 GB. Recessed in the case to keep its surface pristine, the 1.67-inch (diagonal) backlit screen displays full song and album titles, artists names, and more.The iPod mini battery offers up to 18 hours of battery life, and can be fast-charged up to 80 percent capacity in 2 hours; a full charge takes just 4 hours. Note: Rechargeable batteries have a limited number of charge cycles and may eventually need to be replaced. Battery life and number of charge cycles vary by use and settings. Your iPod mini includes a convenient belt clip so you can attach it to your belt, purse or backpack. You can even clip your iPod mini to a lanyard around your neck for the ultimate fashion statement.iTunes Music StoreThe perfect companion to iPod, iTunes lets you easily build and manage your digital music collection. Since the iTunes Music Store is built right in, you can browse through hundreds of thousands of songs and audiobooks until you find just what you're looking for.

Apple iPod mini 4GB MP3 Player Silver Bring along enough music for a 3-day weekend getaway in a package so small you'll forget you're carrying it. Battery life is up to 8 hours. Connections include dock, remote, and stereo mini jack. 4 GB, FireWire and USB compatible. Audio support for AAC, MP3, MP3 , VBR, Apple Lossless, WAV, AIFF, and Audible files. Includes earbud headphones, belt clip, AC adapter, FireWire cable, and USB 2.0 cable. Fashionably CompactApple engineers squeezed all the best features of iPod into a case weighing just over 3-1/2 ounces and smaller than most cell phones. iPod mini features an anodized aluminium case that resists stains and scratches. The case weighs practically nothing, but protects iPod mini in your pocket, purse or backpack. Recessed in the case to keep its surface pristine wherever you lay it, the 1.67 inch (diagonal) backlit screen displays full song names and more. iPod mini lasts up to 8 hours on a single battery charge and like its (slightly) bigger brothers, iPod mini gives you up to 25 minutes of skip protection.Now It Helps to Be All ThumbsIn fact, all the features of iPod are still under your thumb. The iPod's buttons are now under the wheel. The iPod mini Click Wheel gives you the enhanced durability and sensitivity of the iPod Touch Wheel, with buttons underneath. The Click Wheel takes best advantage of miniscule space and lets you scroll single-handedly through 1,000 songs from your iTunes music...

Apple iPod shuffle 1GB Welcome to a life less orderly. As official soundtrack to the random revolution, the iPod Shuffle Songs setting takes you on a unique journey through your music collection. With the Play in Order function, you can play your songs in the order you load them. If that gets too predictable, flip the slider to Shuffle and mix on the go - 1 GB. Completely skip-free and weighing as much as a car key, there's nowhere iPod shuffle can't go. Get up to 12 hours of playback from a full charge, or extend the battery life with the optional Battery Pack. The iPod shuffle charges while syncing, so it stays ready for your next adventure. Not near your computer? The optional USB Power Adapter plugs into any electrical outlet for a quick charge.The controls on the iPod shuffle feel as intuitive as those on every iPod model. Play, pause, skip, repeat, shuffle, and hold at the touch of a thumb. The circular, ergonomic controls and one-click slider make it simple to listen without looking. Syncing is a piece of cake too. Use the optional Dock to connect to your computer or just plug iPod shuffle into a USB port, then drag and drop individual songs, Autofill your favorite playlists or Autofill with a random sampling from your music library. The iPod shuffle comes with a lanyard so you can wear it anywhere. Or you can personalize it with the optional Arm Band or protective case.

Bose SoundDock iPOD Digital Music System Advanced Bose acoustic design gives you rich, full sound from a relatively small enclosure. The docking cradle conveniently charges your iPod or i Pod mini while it plays. An included remote control lets you control system volume and iPod functions such as off/on, play, pause, next song, and previous song from across the room. Introduce your iPod to Bose, then listen to the new SoundDock digital music system bring your music to life. Simply slide in your iPod to fill the room with rich, vibrant Bose sound. Experience your favorite songs as they were intended to be heard. Elevate your iPod listening to a whole new level without computers or earbuds. The SoundDock system's performance is matched by its innovative design, engineered specifically for iPod. Its clean, sophisticated look can take center stage or blend into almost any room.Simply plug the SoundDock system into the wall, then place your iPod into the convenient docking cradle. Your iPod works as long as it has a dock connector on the bottom. There's no cables. No adapters. Just Bose quality sound for all your favorite music.

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