iTunes rolls out 'Complete My Album' feature

Well it looks like the rumors are true for once -- and with so much Apple speculation floating around on the regular, pure chance would seem dictate that a few pan out every now and then -- with the company announcing the introduction of a long-awaited iTunes feature that lets customers apply credit from purchased singles to download the entire disc. Straightforwardly called 'Complete My Album' (not iComplete, thank heavens), the new feature gives users 99 cents of credit for each track off of a given record, with the reduced price showing up a special page dedicated to the service. Sounds like a good deal to us; and now if you'll excuse us, we've been waiting 10 years to find out what other great tunes are on Hanson's MMMBop album.

Update: We forgot to mention that you only have 180 days to apply credit from a given song towards the whole album -- bad news for those individuals who'll
probably space out on buying the rest of Live Phish Volume 14 until it's too late.

[Thanks, Bo]

[Jonathan Keim @ Mar 29th 2007 9:42AM]

When things like this happen I realize how much apple actually cares about what we want. But of course they have to do everything with-in the record comany approval....

[badnegro @ Mar 29th 2007 9:45AM]

NICE use of the Hanson reference, Evan!...

[Hoke @ Mar 29th 2007 10:00AM]

There really should be a law against referencing a song like that...it gets stuck in your head, could cause brain rot!

[Rick Lyon @ Mar 29th 2007 10:08AM]

Hey, that's pretty cool. I would always grab 1-2 songs before realizing I may want the entire album. 'Course, where's the 192kbps at least encoding!?!? Screw 128!!

[chew @ Mar 29th 2007 10:51AM]

about freakin' time

[Greenline @ Mar 29th 2007 10:20AM]

Does this mean it is set up to be smart enough that if you download a pre-release single you won't get that same song when you download the complete album? I can't tell you how annoying it gets to have to delete a song you paid for just to have a nice clean album with no repeats. Maybe I am anal btu I can't stand repeats of the exact same song!

[RabidDellFanboy @ Mar 29th 2007 10:23AM]

Yeah! Those girls are hot!

[John @ Mar 29th 2007 10:35AM]

I'm looking at the feature right now on iTunes, and apparently it's not smart enough to distinguish between albums you bout on iTunes and albums you bought on a CD.

[Jim @ Mar 29th 2007 10:41AM]

This would be cool if I actually still paid for songs. Naughty, naughty, naughty...

[Wire Junky @ Mar 29th 2007 11:05AM]

Has anyone else noticed that this is for a limited time only? I check my account and have the option to complete my albums but the offer expires on June 26, 2007.

[jonbruc @ Mar 29th 2007 10:46AM]

Not a perfect system. I noticed that the same album appears three times in the list at three different prices, including one that reflects only a 10 cent discount off the regular price.

[Matt B @ Mar 29th 2007 11:36AM]

Not that I truly know... but I speculate that if you didn't like mmbop, you will absolutely abhor the rest of the album.

[Olivier @ Mar 29th 2007 11:44AM]

Does this work for TV shows as well? I usually like to try out a few shows before I commit to the season

[deuce @ Mar 29th 2007 12:58PM]

Can I just return all my songs for 99 cents a piece? I don't want DRM'd 128kbs tunes anymore.

[Justin Eaton @ Mar 29th 2007 9:11PM]

That would be Hanson's "Middle of Nowhere" album, show some respect!

(I totally bought that album in 5th grade)

[Nugget Lover @ Apr 2nd 2007 12:12AM]

What a doosh the author of that post is...I am sick of the pothead refences!

"bad news for those individuals who'll
probably space out on buying the rest of Live Phish Volume 14 until it's too late."