08

May

How to Link to Albums in iTunes

So, you can see this in action by clicking one of the iTunes ads on the Safari start page. But if you want to do it for yourself on your own page, it’s not that hard. I’m pretty sure that it only works for the Mac but I don’t have a PC to verify that.

  1. The way to start is by opening the iTunes Music Store and navigating to the album you wish to link to.
  2. Then look for the link labeled “Tell a Friend”, click it and send the message to yourself (might require two separate e-mail address).
  3. Open the message you just sent yourself in some sort of webmail app like Gmail or, heaven forbid, Hotmail.
  4. Using FireBug and Firefox or the Web Inspector in Safari, inspect the link that would take you to the iTunes Music Store and copy it’s href value.
  5. Make that the href of the link on your own page and you’re set.

Enjoy!