On the iTunes Music Store

Published 5 years, 6 months ago in macintosh

I bought one song through the iTunes Music Store in preparation for our trip. In Austin, I generally listen to KGSR 107.1 (great radio station in Austin) because they play great music, across all genres of music. They generally play “Texas Country” music and the styles that compliment it during the day. One song that’s received a lot of airplay in the past 4-5 months is Righteously by Lucinda Williams. I really enjoy the song, but didn’t feel the need to fork out $15 for the CD, so I turned to the iTunes Music Store, and viola… 99 cents later, I own the song, and it was on my iPod in the protected AAC format.

I’ll burn it to CD and reimport it in MP3 format when I return home, I’m sure, for two reasons: 1) playing it in the car requires a CD for the best sound, and 2) having the song in MP3 format on my iPod means I can reliably take it with me to any computing platform, without worrying about loosing access to it because I’m not using iTunes or forgetting my ‘key’ to the protection scheme.

Overall, the iTunes Music Store was a pleasurable experience, though I can’t honestly say I’ll use it that often… I actually like asking folks at places like Waterloo what music they think I’ll like and buying what they recommend based on what I tell them I like.

2 Responses to “On the iTunes Music Store”

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1 Stefan May 29th, 2003 at 5:53 pm

John, can you explain me why most (all?) American radio stations have only acronyms as their names, like KGSR or, in the TV-series “Frasier” KACL? Only two examples, but I think it’s usual in the US to name the stations with four letters, isn’t? Why is this?

I’m from Germany and here the radio stations sometimes also have acronyms but regulary “real” names like “Radio Gong”, “Antenne Bayern”, “Bayern 3″, “Charivari”, “Don Camillo”, “N1″ or “NRJ” (for “Energy”) to name only a few from my region.

Thanks in advance for any tips.

Great to have you back, I enjoy reading your weblog!

Greetins from Germany,

Stefan
2 Jon Gales May 29th, 2003 at 7:48 pm

It’s an FCC thing. The acronym is called the stations “call letters”. It’s used for TV as well as radio. I think it’s a throwback to the early days… It’s easier to identify WOWO than “The biggest station in the East”.

A fun fact is that east coast stations start with a W and west coast start with a K. I think there is only one exception, KDKA out of Pittsburgh, PA.

Here’s a nice write up of the history.

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