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Top of the Pops

Want to see lists of the hottest movies, TV shows,

music videos, songs, albums, audiobooks, and

podcasts available from The Store? The Top boxes

arrayed around the edges of The Store’s main page

offer just that. All these categories, save audiobooks

and podcasts, list the day’s top 10 items (audiobooks

and podcasts list just the top 5). If you care to view

the top 100 items in a particular category, simply

click the right-pointing arrow on the right side of

each category heading.

Quick Links

The two links at the top of the list—Browse and

Power Search—hint that there are more effi cient

ways to fi nd music than clicking the titles you see on

The Store’s home page.

Browse

The Store offers a view much like the one you see in

iTunes when you select a Library entry or a playlist

and choose View > Show Browser. (In point of fact,

choosing this command produces the same result

as clicking the Browse link.) Click Browse, and iTunes’

browser columns appear, listing Charts, Radio Charts,

Movies, Music Videos, and The Store’s various music

genres in the leftmost column.

Charts Click Charts, and Chart appears in the second

pane, listing Billboard Hot 100, Billboard Top Country,

and Billboard Top R&B. Click one of these entries, and

you can choose a year in the third pane. Select a year,

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and you’ll see the top tracks for that year from that

particular chart in the list below.

Radio Charts Radio Charts works differently. Click

this entry, and you’ll see a list of cities in the next

pane. Choose a city, and a list of radio stations

appears to the right. Select a station to view what’s

getting major rotation on its playlist.

Movies Select Movies, and a list of categories

appears to the right—Action & Adventure, Comedy,

and Thriller, for example. Choose one of these cate-

gories to see a list of movies that match.

Music Videos Music Videos are broken into catego-

ries as well—Alternative, Blues, Holiday, Jazz, and

Soundtrack, for example. Select a category, and a list

of appropriate artists appears to the right. Click an

artist to see what he’s or she’s been up to in front of

the cameras.

TV Shows TV Shows is broken down by series—

“24,” The Daily Show with Jon Stewart,” “Desperate

Housewives,” and “Weeds,” for example (Figure 4.6).

Choose a TV show, and if offered, a list of seasons

appears to the right. Choose a season to view

individual episodes below. (If there aren’t multiple

seasons, just clicking the name of the show will

produce the list of available episodes at the bottom

of the window.)

Genre list Finally, the browser includes a list of

music genres. Click a genre name, and for most

entries, a list of subgenres appears in the second

column. (Not all genres offer subgenres.) Click one

of the subgenres, and a list of artists appears in the

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third column. Click an artist’s name, and available

albums by that artist appear in the last column. Click

an album title, and the music contained on that

album appears in the Results area below.

Figure 4.6

The Store’s

no-nonsense

browser.

The Results area is divided into columns titled Name,

Time, Artist, Album, Genre, and Price, regardless

of whether you’re looking at music, movies, music

videos, or TV shows. You can sort the list by any of

these criteria by clicking the appropriate column

head. Click Artist, for example, and the list is sorted

alphabetically by artist. Click Time, and the list is

sorted by shortest to longest playing time.

tip

You’ll notice that a right-pointing arrow appears to the

right of entries in some of these views. Clicking this

arrow allows you to travel to the page devoted to that

item—a great way to explore an album or an artist’s

catalog after searching for a single song, for example.