90 second song previews begin to trickle into iTunes Music Store

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Back in November, a leaked email from Apple to record label representatives indicated that 90 second song previews were in the works for the iTunes Music Store. Today, without much fanfare, the Cupertino company has begun to roll out the extended song previews to its digital music store. The site’s current top albums all have received the upgrade treatment, although, most songs still have the original 30 second previews. Apple has yet to issue a press release formally announcing the feature.

8 Comments
  • sirpaul

    Cool! Before you would lose your $$ if the 30 seconds were during ‘the good part’ and the rest of the song was crap…Now if only they would bring the .99 songs back…all the good stuff is 1.29 – only the stuff nobody listens to is under 0.99. At .99 I might actually buy a song if I was feeling too lazy to open frostwire :) Nice thing about itunes is that all song names, artists and albums as well as album art is already there for you – properly naming 1.5k songs took forever!

  • woatness

    :D :D:D

  • Anonymous

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  • http://twitter.com/kirkewilliams kirkewilliams

    I would like to trickle into Katy Perry if you know what I mean.

    • dukeofsomerset

      Katy Perry is wonderful humanitarian. What are you implying?

  • James K

    I stopped using iTunes to search for music. 30 sec previews are worthless, 90 seconds not much better. I use Bing since the first time you preview a song, it plays the entire song.

  • dukeofsomerset

    I know a song is worth my money within 15 secs. This does nothing for me.

  • cableguy

    I would rather keep those 60secs of my life, thank you.

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