{"id":14205,"date":"2004-04-22T23:42:00","date_gmt":"2004-04-22T23:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2004\/04\/22\/web-based-itunes-browser\/"},"modified":"2004-04-22T23:42:00","modified_gmt":"2004-04-22T23:42:00","slug":"web-based-itunes-browser","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2004\/04\/22\/web-based-itunes-browser\/","title":{"rendered":"Web-Based iTunes Browser"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you want to see what kind of selection the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/itunes\/\" target=\"_blank\">iTunes Music Store<\/a> has without having to download the application and its associated baggage, check out <a href=\"http:\/\/www.downhillbattle.org\/cgi-bin\/itms4all.pl\" target=\"_blank\">iTMS-4-ALL<\/a>, which lets you search their database in any web browser and listen to the samples (!), as long as you have an appropriate application to do so.  I believe the new version of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.winamp.com\" target=\"_blank\">WinAmp<\/a> natively supports the .m4p AAC files used for the track previews, but if not I know that a plugin is available.<\/p>\n<p>If you like any tracks or albums enough to buy them, you will have to download the iTunes application to buy it through Apple, though.  I&rsquo;ve bought about a CD&rsquo;s worth of tracks now, and I must admit that on the whole Apple did a good job with their implementation of the store and its interface.  The only thing that would make it perfect would be if you could download unrestricted MP3 files, but I guess that&rsquo;s asking too much.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Update:<\/strong> With the new release of iTunes 4.5, this service no longer works. \ud83d\ude41<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/3501955-108264317539834728?l=www.driko.org%2Findex_blogger.html\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you want to see what kind of selection the iTunes Music Store has without having to download the application and its associated baggage, check out iTMS-4-ALL, which lets you search their database in any web browser and listen to the samples (!), as long as you have an appropriate application to do so. I &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2004\/04\/22\/web-based-itunes-browser\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Web-Based iTunes Browser&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[118],"class_list":["post-14205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-imported"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14205","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14205"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14205\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}