Hi, I am trying to set up an application in which users will be able to stream music. When the user is streaming a MP3, I'd like to set up a link to the iTunes store to buy the MP3.
How can I do that? I feel like there should be some simple way of doing so using the song title and artist name, am I mistaking?
Thanks
You can experiment with the iTMS Link Maker that Apple provides and see how the links are formed. In addition, here is the iTMS Link Maker FAQ.
See this blog post about how to query the iTMS Link Maker automatically. Basically, you can query the iTMS Link Maker and get an XML document back that your application can process.
Exact duplicate of this question which has a very good answer.
The iTunes Store Web Service Search API (pdf), although old and incomplete, documents how to search for content in the iTunes store and returns a JSON string with results.
The iTunes Store Web Service Search API allows you to place search fields in your website to search for content within the iTunes Store. You can search for a variety of iTunes Store content; including movies, podcasts, music, music videos, audiobooks, and TV shows. You can also call an ID-based lookup request to create mappings between your content library and the iTunes Store content library.
Queries are sent to base url:
http://ax.phobos.apple.com.edgesuite.net/WebObjects/MZStoreServices.woa/wa/wsSearch?parameterkeyvalue
Where parameterkeyvalue can be one or more parameter key and value pairs indicating the details of your query.