Do you ever find things in the iTunes store and think “I don’t want that now, but might be interested later”? Wouldn’t it be nice to have a bookmark feature in iTunes?
Well its good to see that I am not the first person to want it. Back in 2003 Chuck Toporek wrote an iTunes store feature wish list, with bookmarking a feature high on the list. And even the idea of a wish list so people could buy you stuff.
Then I came across kirk’s suggestion of dragging out urls to make webloc files. But I really don’t want to have to file the bookmarks somewhere else. A directory of bookmarks it not that easy to manage, of space efficient.
The best idea I saw is from AgingGeek of creating a playlist in iTunes and dragging songs to it from iTunes store. That this should create a list if files you are interested in. Unfortunately, this doesn’t appear to work in iTunes 9.
So it looks like we are back to the drawing board?
No, not completely. As of iTunes 9 there is a small drop down menu arrow next to the ‘buy’ button for albums and tracks, which has an ‘Add to Wish List‘ option.
So, now there is a wish list. But how do I access its contents? And where did my Shopping Cart go?
The Wish List can be access via a link (hidden) right at the bottom of each iTunes store page.
The Shopping Cart has gone. It is no more. Only 1-click shopping is offered these day in the iTunes store.
From iTunes help:
IMPORTANT:Only 1-click purchasing is available. If you were using Shopping Cart in earlier versions of iTunes, the contents of your Shopping Cart can now be found in your Wish List.
So, Apple have decided that a shopping cart gave you too much of an option to back out of purchases. And moved to only having a 1-click purchase model. Cutting down on the ummers and ahhers.
IMPORTANT:All sales are final. You can’t cancel a purchase after you click Buy or Buy Now.
Some like the new iTunes, and gave it a good review:
- Apple iTunes 9 (Donald Bell, AppleSource, 28 Sept 2009)
And others detest the new iTunes store interface:
- Bring Back the iTunes Shopping Cart! (Ted Landau, MacObserver, 29 Sept 2009)
- Can’t Drag Songs to Wish List (KMDMD, Apple Discussions, 22 Dec 2009)
Personally, I think hiding the Shopping Cart as a Wish List at the bottom of the page is a not very user friendly.
I still want a way to Bookmark songs or albums. Much like you do in a web browser. That would allow you to categorise and file your bookmarks, not have them all dumped in one list.
As the iTunes store is really just a web site (using iTunes as its browser). I don’t see why this would be hard to implement (I presume that iTunes uses the same web technology as Safari). It just requires some realisation from within for the need to change.
Q: How many psychologists does it take to change a light bulb?
A: Only one, but the light bulb has to want to change.
There are the occasional hicups though.
Where as, on the other side of the the room, the G4 thinks it was a nice 18-23. A day to stroll about and not be too worried.
