Hi Will, On Tuesday, March 27, 2007, at 06:57AM, "william lomas" wrote:
>my friend this week will help me varify my apple ID for use in the i >tunes store i ahve a question though >i created a UK account. now, as i am in france at present, do i ahve >the right to use a UK account, i.e. can i get all the purchases to >show up in UK pounds as at present the prices are in euro? >or do i ahve to be in the UK to use it with sterling? The iTunes store location you use is based on the credit card billing address location. If you're using a UK billing address, you should use the UK store. That might be set up automatically when you set up your account. If you try to buy items in the U.S. store, you'll get a message like "Your account is only valid for the U.K. iTunes Store. Clicking OK will take you to this store." >also when do i enter my credit card details into the program? After the initial "review" of account details where you input your credit card details, you don't need to enter your credit card again. You just need your login name and password to validate purchases. If you're in the UK store all the prices will show up listed as UK pounds. What I'd suggest is that you "practice" purchasing the Free UK iTunes song after you set up your account. This is like doing a purchase, but for 0.00 pounds (or dollars), and will take you through the process without the possibility of getting charged for a mistake. In general, you can find the page for this by googling "macrumors free iTunes 2007" which takes you to the U.S. entry that lists all the free iTunes songs posted so far for 2007 (a pretty long list). The post lists International lists in this thread. I'll give the links for the U.K., Canadian, and Australian stores (but it's easier to google for the information): U.K. free iTunes 2007: http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?p=3202054#post3202054 Canadian free iTunes 2007: http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?p=3206723#post3206723 Australian free iTunes 2007: http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?p=3202295#post3202295 and the U.S. free iTunes 2007 thread: http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=265572 These lists get updated once a week, usually after Tuesday night, and generally only the most recent week's listing will be free. (Sometimes there are codes like [DD] = Discvery Download or [SOT] = Single of the Week, and now [LTSOW] = Latino Single of the Week). When you purchase a song, by using the button to get the song in the column where the prices are given, you'll be prompted to either create an account, or to log into your account with username and password. If you're already logged into your account, and some time has passed, iTunes will ask you to enter your password. You don't need to do this again for the next few purchases unless a long time has passed. Once you've purchased a song, you can check that the download has started by tabbing to the Sources Outline and typing "Dow" to move to "Downloads" (which appears when a download starts) and hear "Downloads 1 item" (or however many are in progress at the time). In the case of free songs in the middle of an album list, the link will take you to the free selection. So you should be in the Songs Outline at the right song; just start interacting, and then VO-keys right arrow over to the Price column. (You can check this with VO-keys shift-C). If I have Mouse cursor tracking VoiceOver cursor on, all I have to do is use VO-keys shift space to select the song for purchase on my 12" G4 Powerbook. Maybe wider screen displays stretch out columns so that the mouse click on the center of the column doesn't fall on the button to purchase? Using the Search Text menu works pretty well, because it gives you results in order of popularity. However, if you want to search with more control, you can try using the Advanced Search link for music from your browser: http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZSearch.woa/wa/advancedSearch?mt=1 Now if you move from the Search Text Field (option-command-F) and tab to get to the Songs Outline, after getting "iTunes Store" your next four tabs will put you into four unlabelled fields: Artist, Composer, Song, and Album. Enter any selections you want in any of these fields and carriage return, but remember to clear each field of previous search terms if you go back to these.This works for things like finding out which artist versions of a song are available or getting a specific album, when the album name is similar to a song name. Now when you do your next tab to the Songs Outline your results will reflect searches where the terms are limited to specific categories. I'll mention that users can also use column sorting to order search results -- different Artists who have recorded a particular song, versions classified in a different genre, listings by Album, etc. but you probably don't want to experiment with this when you're just beginning to use the iTunes store. It's better to try this out on your Music Library. Sometimes the iTunes store is busy, and you won't get a response or the connection will fail. This usually happens just before they're adding new features or doing major updates before an event. In those cases, using the Advanced search browser links will also fail to connect. I don't usually use the Advanced search music options at all. This kind of link is more useful for items like Podcasts. I've also found that some times when the Music part of the store is too busy to connect, I can still get in with the Advanced Search links for podcasts or audiobooks, because these parts of the stores are not busy. Oh, and I don't know of a general accessible way of changing the store location. Going to a song that is only offered in the UK store or the Australian store, etc. by using the free iTunes offering will work, You get a message that your request could not be completed because the item is not in the (US/UK/etc. store) but it is in the (other) store, and do you want to go there? if you want to browse in other stores this is one way to do it, but you won't be able to purchase from iTunes stores for other countries. In fact, all your searches will be run for that store location. Trying to purchase a song from another iTunes store will bring up a message like "Your account is only valid for the xxx iTunes store. Do you want to be taken there?" Hope this helps, Cheers, Esther
