Saving iTunes Samples

I have a playlist full of Previews, called - surprise surprise - Previews. That is my "To buy" list otherwise I might forget all the songs I want.

You saying that's not possible in iTunes 8? Hm, that's one way for the Music Store to lose business then. If I didn't have a preview playlist I wouldn't buy half the stuff I do buy.

If you want the URL to a track in the iTunes Store, try iTunes Link Maker. You can quickly search for an copy URLs for any given item.

BTW, tracks in the iTunes Store are not MP3 and never have been. Just to make sure you know. And you cannot get actual copies of the preview samples; you can only link to the item in the iTunes Store.

Message was edited by: Dave Sawyer

I used to be able to grab previews and store them locally in just the manner I described at the beginning of this post.

That's never been possible that I can remember, and certainly was never supported. You could store a link to the preview by saving it in a playlist as Christopher said. But the previews have never been downloadable as a separate playable file; if you copied them off by some means, you probably used some sort of third-party hack. Or you are remembering some other site, not the iTunes Store.

but I used to be able to grab previews and store them locally in just the manner I described at the beginning of this post. Shame if you can't any longer.

As Dave noted, previews have never been downloaded as a file.
A preview is simply a link to a streaming file. If you are not connected tio the internet and runnning iTunes, you cannot hear the preview.