Like I would with a podcast episode, I can paste that URL into a webpage or document. I can right-click on the icon for Word Warp and Copy iTunes Store URL. You can use this right-click and copy method in the App Store as well. Now when I click that link, not only does it open to the podcast page, but the specific episode I link to is highlighted. Now, let me paste that URL into a Google Doc document just for demonstration purposes. I can right-click a specific episode and copy the iTunes Store URL. But, you can also use it to link to specific episodes. Then you have that same URL you could have gotten from iTunes Link Maker. Right-click the Artwork and then choose Copy iTunes Store URL. Go to the details page for what you'd like to link to. If you don't need that iTunes button or you want more control over what you're linking to, then you can use the second method of linking to items in the iTunes Store. It's pretty long, but you can see that it links to the store and includes a unique Podcast ID so that iTunes can open to that podcast. I'm going to paste what I copied from the Link Maker just so you can see what the URL looks like. Now I can type text and select it to hyperlink with the copied link. On that iTunes Link Maker page, you can right-click the image next to Link Test and copy the link. Ok, maybe you want to use just a text hyperlink or use your own image for linking. I click the button, and now iTunes opens to the details page for the Our City Podcast! Then I switch back to Design view to see what it looks like. I use Dreamweaver for my website, so I toggle to Code view and paste the copied HTML code there. Because it's HTML, you most likely can't just copy or paste it into a webpage. Then iTunes Linkmaker gives me give me HTML code to put into my website, wiki, or blog. I find the one I'm looking for and click the Arrow next to it. But as you can see, you can also link to other media types, like Music, Movies, TV Shows, Audio Books, Applications, and iTunes U.Īfter clicking search, I can see a list of search results. I type in Our City and choose Podcast as the Media Type. With iTunes Link Maker, you search for the item in the iTunes Store to which you want to link. You'll need to go to the iTunes Link Maker /itunes/linkmaker or just Google "iTunes" and "link maker" and it will be the first search result. Let me show you the first of two ways to hyperlink to the iTunes Store. Tapping that same iTunes button on my website launches mobile iTunes on the iPod and opens to the Our City Podcast details page where I can download specific episodes right there on the device itself without the help of a desktop computer. I have the Our City Podcast page opened in mobile Safari on my iPod touch. When I click the iTunes button on on the Our City Podcast webpage in my web browser, it opens iTunes right up to the podcast's details page in the iTunes Store. When you click it, your browser redirects you to iTunes and opens on the details page for a podcast, musical album, movie, or software in the App Store. So, you might have noticed an iTunes icon on webpages. By the way, I'm wearing these earbuds because they are the kind with a microphone-I tested recording video using a desktop mic and it just didn't sound as good-so I'm using these.Īlright. More and more of what I will share on this show is visual,especially as the focus changes from click-wheel iPods to iPod touch and iPhone. This is the first of many episodes of Learning in Hand: iPods that is video. Episode 15, "Linking to iTunes" recorded December 2008, happens now! I'm Tony Vincent and this is the show where I share tips, how-tos, and ideas for iPods in teaching and learning.
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