You receive $0.70 per song sold individually and $7.00 per album with 11 or more songs sold in its entirety (US iTunes rates). Kerascene Music takes no money from the sale of your music. You are paid the pay rate in the local currency of the country where the sale occurred. For example, if an album or song sells from the iTunes Japan store, iTunes Japan pays in Japanese yen (?) so be aware that bank conversion rates are out of our control and change from day to day.

No. You don't have to be selling the song on iTunes. You are welcome to use TuneCore Video even if you never use any of TuneCore's other services. However, your music video must conform to iTunes's specifications. Back to top

iTunes Europe, selling music and music videos only in Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Ireland (Republic), Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, and Switzerland IMPORTANT: At TuneCore, some stores are bundled together to save you money and for ease of use. The following iTunes stores are bundled together so that when you purchase one, you get your music delivered to both for the same single-store price: iTunes U.K.

TuneCore takes none of the money from the sale of your music videos. You get it all. For each music video sold individually, you receive: iTunes pays the above Pay Rate in the local currency of the country where the sale occurred. For example, if a music video sells from the iTunes Japan store, iTunes Japan pays in Japanese yen (¥). The money is converted into U.S. dollars by the bank and forwarded on to you. As always, TuneCore takes none of the money from the sale of your music video.

Yes, you should always back up your music. In a perfect world, this would not be necessary, but when computers are involved, things always go wrong. First, you may have a hardware crash, wiping out all your music. Second, you may need to re-install your operating system (this is more common with Windows), and this re-installation may require you to erase your hard drive. If you forget to back up your music, you may be out of luck.

For a complete description of the Napster service, we suggest you read the Napster FAQ. Each time a Napster Subscriber ("Member" or "To Go Member") streams more than 30 seconds of your song, you get paid. When anyone, even a Napster Subscriber ("Member" or "To Go Member") permanently downloads one of your songs or albums, you also get paid. You receive $0.65 per song sold individually and $6.50 per album with 11 or more songs sold in its entirety.

Rhapsody lets customers buy downloads as well as stream digital music directly from their site. Each time a Rhapsody Non-Subscribing Customer permanently downloads your songs you get a payment. When a Rhapsody Subscriber or Rhapsody Trial Subscriber permanently downloads, you also get a payment, but a fraction less. When a Rhapsody Subscriber streams or "tethered downloads" your songs or albums, you get a payment, but when a Rhapsody Trial Subscriber streams, you don't get a payment.

eMusic works on a subscription pay rate permanent download model so the pay rate varies depending on how much money eMusic made in pre-sales each pay period. eMusic calculates how many songs were downloaded and how much money was made in the same three month period. To get the per-song pay rate eMusic divides the amount of money made by the number of songs downloaded.

Xingtone does not see AAC / M4A files on the PC, although it does on the Mac. Xingtone does not work with files that are digital rights-protected (DRM) files, and this means that songs you purchased from the iTunes store will not work with Xingtone. On the PC, you will need to convert your AAC files into MP3. Your iTunes help files explain how to do this. On a PC, the program downloads as a .zip file to your desktop, so once you find xingtone.

iPod offers three ways to transfer music from your iTunes 2 music library. You can select one of the following update modes from the iPod Preferences menu in iTunes: Update all music automatically. This is the default mode, in which iTunes copies your entire music library, including playlists, to iPod when you connect it to your Mac and deletes songs on iPod that are not listed in iTunes.

No. Currently, the only way you can access iTunes U is through the SPU website. You can perform a search using iTunes but only after you have opened iTunes U.

In the What do you want to back up? window, choose Drive, folders or files and then click the “Next” button. The Select drive or folder window will now open. The standard location of your My Music and My Pictures folders is in My Documents. Click the + sign next to My Documents to expand its subfolders and then check the My Music and My Pictures boxes. Now click the “Next” button.

You can use the iTunes Link Maker to create a link to any artist, song or album available on the iTunes Music Store. You can also link directly the to iTunes download page.

When Microsoft updates Windows (usually most computers are set to do this automatically), it sometimes creates issues with the shortcut created by Window's Installer, which earlier versions of RockIt used for it's install. The Installer then thinks that RockIt isn't there anymore, when in fact, it is. The easiest way around this is to create a new desktop shortcut for RockIt, which will alleviate the problem.

iTunes Latino is a sub-store within iTunes U.S. specifically for content of interest to the Latino community. It consists of a home page and feature pages, lists, reviews, specials and other promotional material targeting the Latino demographic. Depending on the sales of your music, iTunes may direct the editors of iTunes Latino to place your music on best-seller lists and other promotionals. All the rules, restrictions, pay rates and territories of the iTunes U.S.

this time, due to the legacy of music distribution rights, the iTunes Music Store only sells to persons whose credit card has a billing address in one of 21 countries. (SA not included) At some point in the future SA may be added, but many larger markets than ourselves, still do not have access to the iTunes store, and so we will have to patiently wait our turn.

Not in general. Those music files are protected by Digital Rights Managment (DRM) systems which are not supported in Linux. In the case of iTunes, you can burn the tracks to a CD and rip the CD in Lsongs. However, Lsongs has built-in support for the MP3tunes music store, which sells independent music without DRM. Lsongs directly supports the Creative Nomad and Dell Digital Jukebox line of players, except for the ones labelled "Plays For Sure". Yes. Lsongs supports the Apple iPod.

iTunes is free media-player software than runs easily on a Windows PC or a Macintosh. Simple and easy to use, iTunes allows users to browse, play, download, and organize audio and video content. iTunes can be downloaded for free here. For installation assistance, click here.

iTunes offers the following formats: AAC, MP3, WAV, AIFF and Apple Lossless. The format you choose depends in part on the quality you want for your music, as well as its portability. AAC, which is the default format (and which Apple uses for music it sells from the iTunes Music Store) is an excellent compression format, and generally sounds better than MP3 files at similar bit rates (at least for lower bit rates). However, not many programs or devices play back AAC files.

It's easy to subscribe to any podcast using iTunes, even ones that aren't available in the iTunes Store. To subscribe, find and copy the podcast's feed URL. In the "Advanced" menu, select "Subscribe to Podcast" and paste the feed URL into the dialog box.

No. Out of the box, the iPod acts as a standard UMS device - meaning that without any special drivers you can plug your iPod into your PC's USB port and it appears as a hard drive. When iTunes transfers a music file to an iPod, it also adds an entry in the itunesdb database stored on the iPod. Apple's firmware in the iPod only looks for music in this database - which is why you can not normally copy music to an iPod without iTunes (or an equivalent third-party application).

iTunes stores your music in the iPod_Control/Music folder on your iPod. This folder has the "hidden" attribute set, so you need to enable the "View all files" option in Rockbox to show this folder in the file browser. However, iTunes obfuscates the filenames of your music by giving them names such as DLER.m4a in folders with names like F03. The folders do not match albums - the tracks are placed randomly in the different directory.

FotoMagico cannot include audio from songs purchased from the iTunes Music Store in an export movie, as Apple prohibits third party applications to access the sound data. We do sincerely hope that Apple eventually changes its DRM policies. You can use the songs when presenting the slideshow live in FotoMagico.

We offer a digital distribition service to help you get your music into iTunes. We charge a one time setup fee of $35 per album, and we pay you 91% of the proceeds after that. You can submit your album for digital distribition here.

We don't have any plans to offer the guide via online delivery yet. On the bright side, the printed version you receive still stays on after your computer is turned off.

txttunes provides a unique opportunity for independent artists and labels and their fans to create a music community in a way no other online destination can. The ability to purchase music through a simple txt message allows fans of all ages to support their chosen artists.

To automatically sync music downloaded from feeds with attachments (enclosures) in MedReader, you must select "View / Attachments and Podcasting..." from the pull-down menu, and click on the "Podcasting Options..." tab, and check the box under "Playlists Control" that says "Populate iTunes playlist with downloaded file". There are also similar options for downloading music to Windows Media Player or WinAmp music players.