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“Yoku Aru Shitsumon”

(frequently asked question)

With the recent release of the new 3G iphones in many countries around the world, a lot of people have questions about accessing and downloading from the iTunes music store on their iPhone or iPod touch.

There have been concerns that you may need to designate an iTunes music store account when you first activate your iPhone through iTunes and that you may be stuck with that account on your phone. For people that have accounts at more than one country’s iTunes music store, it’s actually very easy to access any of the iTunes music stores that you have accounts with on your iPhone or iPod touch.

When you connect your iPhone or iPod touch to your PC or Mac and sync it, the iTunes music store that you are logged into on iTunes on your computer is the one that you will be logged into on your portable device. So if you are logged into the US store when you connect your device to your computer, that is the store that will appear when you access the iTunes music store on your iPhone or iPod touch. If you want to change music stores and visit the Japanese iTunes music store, you will need to connect your device to your computer and log into that store in iTunes, then sync your iPhone or iPod touch.

If you are not logged into any iTunes music store when you sync your device, the store that you last used in your iTunes will be the one that displays on your portable device. You can browse and listen to snippets of songs, and you will be prompted for login details when you try to purchase a song. At this time you will only be able to log into the store that was displayed in your iTunes the last time you synced your device.

You can also redeem iTunes gift cards right there on the go on your mobile device and start downloading instantly. If you have a Japanese iTunes card from JPopMp3s.com you can input the code right there on your iPhone/iPod touch to credit your account. To redeem your code, go to the “downloads” section, which is the bottom right button in the iTunes store, as seen in the two screen shots above. There you will see a “redeem” button from where you can input the code and your account will be credited instantly. Any songs that you download will be automatically transferred to your iTunes library the next time you connect to your computer. You will be able to listen to the songs you purchase on your iPhone/iPod touch instantly on your device.

This week’s free download at the Japanese iTunes music store is “You say goodbye” by the artist SpecialThanks.

You can get it by clicking here. You will be directed to the Japanese iTunes music store. You will need an account at the Japanese store as the free download is not available at other iTunes music stores.

If you don’t have a Japan iTunes music store account you can get one at JPopMp3s.com, where you can get prepaid iTunes Japan cards in amounts from 2000 yen to 10,000 yen.

If you get a 2000 yen card you can download an album of your favourite Jpop artist or pick and choose a number of songs from any number of artists. No need to spend money on the whole album, pay for shipping or wait for the CD to arrive by mail.

iTunes offers a free download every week and once you have an account at the Japanese music store you can download them instantly every week.

Do you have a blog?  Do you want a free iTunes Japan song code?

Maybe we can strike a deal. I’ve got a bunch of song codes from a current Coca Cola promotion. I’ve given a couple away but I think I might do something different.

If you write a post about Jpopmp3s.COM and link to it on your blog, leave a comment below linking to the post and I’ll send you a song code.

The link should point to JPopMp3s.com  not JPopMp3s.net which is this blog. Also, the link text in the link should be  “Japanese iTunes cards”.

I only have a limited number of song codes at the moment, but if more people blog than I have codes, I’ll get to drinking coke and fatten myself up.

Update: The Coke/iTunes promotion ended on July 31st. While I’d welcome any blog posts about JPopMp3s.com, I don’t have any more song codes to give out at this moment.

Wow! This week’s free download on iTunes Japan is gonna shoot straight to the top of my most played this week on my Last.FM! I love it. What a breezy, catchy true R&B summer tune.

Only 20 years old, she was born in Papua New Guinea (!) and grew up in Kobe. Influenced by Janet, Mariah and K-Ci & Jojo, she started singing R&B in junior high. <side-note;  Freaky! just as I typed K-Ci & Jojo just now, “freaking you” came on on MTV Japan>

I spotted what I thought was a Rihanna influence, and also reminiscent of Crystal Kay.

If you are into R&B influenced Jpop- or even if you just like R&B, I definitely recommend downloading this song free on iTunes this week.

You can click on the image above or here to be taken to the download page in iTunes Japan.If you are not logged into the Japanese iTunes music store you won’t be able to get this track. Login first, then hit the link above.

Hurry up, it’ll only be free until next Tuesday the 1st of July, and once she blows up (which I predict she will) you’ll want to buy the album.

Emi Maria’s myspace page

Her official site

Finally!!  After drinking gallons and gallons of Coca Cola Zero (which doesn’t even taste that good) I finally uncovered another free iTunes song code.

I’m posting it below for the first person who comes across it to grab and use to download a free song at the Japanse iTunes music store.

Once again, if you are the first to claim the code and you use it, PLEASE LEAVE A COMMENT BELOW so that those that come after you will know not to waste their time, and also just to let me know that it worked for you. It would be nice to also know what you downloaded, if you’d like to share.

Here it is:

3F3M97FK9LLE <–Redeemed by Mike (see comments) That lasted almost 24 hours before someone snapped it up.

It expires September 30th 2008.

If you don’t already have an account at the Japanese iTunes music store, you can get one as well as Japanese iTunes cards at JPopMp3s.com