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iMix and ITMS's birthday bash

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The iTunes Music Store is a year old and celebrating by giving away free singles.
ITMS is also featuring, as part of the new iTunes 4.5, iMix, whereby Store patrons can post their iTunes playlists in a special section of the Store. It's a bit like Amazon reader lists, but with one-click simplicity (since you've already created the list). Obviously, it's a gimmick to further promote sales (only playlist tracks that are actually available through the Store get posted, others are are automatically dropped), not to mention a attractive nuisance for egomaniacal music fans who want to impose their taste on the world, but it's clever nonetheless. Since I fit the latter description, I've already posted a very provisional list I've been working on: Perfect Songs.
One last ITMS note: Derek Powazek has a recent post on the joys of iTunes randomization and notes the newly-added Quick Links in iTunes 4.5, including info on hacking the default behavior of those links.
Update (5/2/04): I've also posted the Four Horsemen mix (or, rather, about half of it) as an iTunes iMix. The other half will have to wait until Apple expands their library.

This post was first published Thursday, 29 Apr 2004, 10:31 PM

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