HT2534: Create an iTunes Store, App Store, or iBooks Store account without a credit card or other payment method
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Q: iTunes without a credit card - get album info
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Sep 28, 2012 12:07 PMby varjak paw,HelpfulGet a free app following the instructions here:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2534
That's the only way to create an iTunes Store account without entering in some sort of payment method. Read the steps carefully as the order in which you follow them is critical. Note that you can do this only when creating a new Apple ID. You cannot use an existing ID.
You will of course not be able to get anything other than free apps without entering in some sort of payment method (credit card, prepaid iTunes card, gift certificate, etc.) but you will be able to get album art.
Regards.
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Sep 28, 2012 12:18 PMby Limnos,it seems stupid to force people to enter this info when all they want it the titles of tracks they already own. Another FAIL Apple.
Really? Since you do not have a valid account I presume you obtained these tracks some other way and did not buy them from the iTunes Store. While it is nice to receive things for free such as the iTunes application itself, I do not expect Apple to provide a music labeling service for free. Annoying as it may be, if it is a "perk" for a potential customer who has a demonstrated ability to pay and has gone so far as to be only a mouse click or two from a small profit on the books then so be it.
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Sep 28, 2012 1:11 PMby FixItNowPlease,Wow Limnos you may be willing to pay for a free service, BUT I'm not.
iTunes info is provided by GraceNote and is NOT some product of Apple. GraceNote get's its info in turn from people voletering to provide the info - for FREE.
Besides I bought a Mac. The music program it came with was iTunes. I would think that as a paying customer of an registerd and licensed Apple product/softwere that some basic service would come with it, like not having to type in EVERY single track I own. I've payed for the CD's I'm putting on my player and until recently the iTunes player DID provide the info automaticaly from GraceNote. This is just a gimik to get people to buy from them insted of buying tangable products or from Amazon.
I've never just given my CC info to any company to store for the privilage of MAYBE geting something in return. It is a bad policy.
VarJak Paw, Thank you for actualy trying to help me. I'll try this again and see what happens.
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Sep 28, 2012 1:30 PMby varjak paw,Gracenote provides only track and album name info, not album art. I've never had an issue with getting information from Gracenote without an iTunes Store account. Artwork, however, does require an account if you want to get it from the iTunes Store. But there are many other places where you can get album art, and utilities that can help you get it.
Regards.
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Sep 28, 2012 1:32 PMby Limnos,Gracenote provides the identification when you insert a CD. If you were talking about getting that information when inserting a CD then that wasn't clear because you only just now mentioned seeing this before when you inserted a CD. It has nothing to do with iTunes accounts. I don't have an iTunes account and my iTunes brings up labels when I insert a CD. You select it as an option in preferences settings for iTunes.
If you're talking about ripping an unidentified CD and then later identifying it using iTunes Store's database, that is not the same service.
If you buy a Windows computer you get iTunes too.
