If you were hoping that iTunes Extras would bring movies downloaded from the iTunes Store anywhere close to feature parity with physical copies on disc, prepare to be let down.

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Facebook integration. Tweeting my music interests. AppleTV. Full-screen album extras. App management. An entire online store. Smart playlists. CD burning. Ringtone creation. Tips the scales at 88MB. All this in what is essentially the only music player on OS X.

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Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) says it has approved an iPhone app from Spotify, a music service that some people believe represents a growing threat to iTunes.

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A report filed by a tipster claiming access to iTunes 9 says that it is "possible" the next version of Apple's media player will sport both DVD import and playback as well as Facebook integration, allowing users to advertise songs and playlists with their friends.

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Online music sales have grown to more than a third of all music sold in the US, with iTunes making up a full quarter. CD sales remain dominant, but given the trajectory of online sales, that may not last for long.

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The four big record companies are to compete with Apple's forthcoming Cocktail project by developing their own format called CMX.

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Our same source is back at it again and we have some further clarification on the iTunes 9 rumor we posted a couple days ago. We really have to take this information at face value, but again felt it was worthy enough to be published.

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Plug a Pre into a Mac and it syncs, seamlessly, with Apple's (AAPL) iTunes. In fact, the iTunes Store treats the Pre just as it would an iPod or an iPhone with one exception: it can't handle old copy-protected songs.

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The crooks are merely using stolen credit cards to purchase and resell the iTunes gift cards.

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$200 iTunes Gift Certificates are selling for less than $3 in China now that a group of local hackers has circumvented Apple's algorithm for creating the digital vouchers and built their own gift certificate generators.

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iTunes users who want to upgrade their DRMed library to iTunes Plus can now do so on a song-by-song or album-by-album basis.

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Retailers from Amazon to Real have launched their own DRM-free MP3 music stores in recent years. Faced with the competition, Apple finally put the last nail in the coffin of á la carte music DRM earlier this month with the iTunes Store, but don't tell Microsoft.

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Microsoft yesterday unveiled its MSN Mobile Music service - and a surprise return to digital rights management (DRM).

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Just how important to the music industry was variable pricing inside the iTunes Store? What made Steve Jobs finally give in after years of negotiations? According to the Associated Press, the key negotiating component was over-the-air downloads for the iPhone.

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Even though Apple chief executive Steve Jobs' long-stated desire for DRM-free iTunes music has finally been realized, some observers and users are questioning Apple for the way it's handling certain aspects of the change.

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Apple has cut deals that will finally enable iTunes to offer songs free of digital rights management software from the three largest music labels, according to a source close to the negotiations.

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High Definition Content Protection—the annoying DRM-y thing that's supposed to stop people from copying hi-def stuff as it travels over a card-display connector— has apparently, and unfortunately, come to Apple's MacBooks.

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Apple has taken the unusual step of re-releasing iTunes 8 for Windows users, investigation shows. Following the original release of the software last week, a variety of Windows Vista users reported blue screen of death errors when attempting to sync an iPod or iPhone with a PC.

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As more stores and record labels abandon digital rights management, Apple may have an alternative plan for subscription services, writes Tim Anderson.

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In spite of the economic slowdown, consumers continued to snatch up Apple's Macintosh computers and helped the company record a 36 percent rise in second-quarter profit, it announced today.

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What's interesting about iTunes' meteoric rise in popularity is that it is doing very well despite some downsides to the format and the portable devices people typically use to listen to the music.

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If you had to choose one box... Previously, I looked at the Apple TV in isolation, to see how it fits as a digital hub.

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It's been a year-and-a-half since Amazon launched Unbox, its movie download service that competes with Netflix and iTunes. Amazon has a partnership with TiVo to allow people to download movies straight to their TV set-top boxes.

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Nearly half of all teenagers bought no compact discs in 2007, accelerating the music industry's painful transition from CDs to digital downloads, according to a report released Tuesday.

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Apple's iTunes will likely whip past Wal-Mart Stores to become the largest U.S. music retailer sometime this year.

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