# iTunes change alert **URL:** https://community.metabrainz.org/t/itunes-change-alert/429010 **Category:** MusicBrainz **Tags:** userscripts, url, itunes **Created:** [May 22, 2019, 4:59am UTC](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/itunes-change-alert/429010 "2019-05-22T04:59:30Z") **Posts on this page:** 20 **Page:** 1
### Author: ![tigerman325](https://community.metabrainz.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/b9bd4f/32.png) [@tigerman325](https://community.metabrainz.org/u/tigerman325) #### Post date: [May 22, 2019, 4:59am UTC](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/itunes-change-alert/429010/1 "2019-05-22T04:59:30Z")
It seems that [www.itunes.com](http://www.itunes.com) is no longer. It’s now [music.apple.com](http://music.apple.com), they are forwarding all the links at least, but the script no longer works. ---
### Author: ![tigerman325](https://community.metabrainz.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/b9bd4f/32.png) [@tigerman325](https://community.metabrainz.org/u/tigerman325) #### Post date: [May 22, 2019, 5:44am UTC](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/itunes-change-alert/429010/2 "2019-05-22T05:44:22Z")
Actually, they’ve separated iTunes & Apple Music. It’s now [itunes.apple.com](http://itunes.apple.com) & [music.apple.com](http://music.apple.com). Update: Now it’s only [music.apple.com](http://music.apple.com). Seems they were in transition last night. ---
### Author: ![HibiscusKazeneko](https://community.metabrainz.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/h/3da27b/32.png) [@HibiscusKazeneko](https://community.metabrainz.org/u/HibiscusKazeneko) #### Post date: [May 22, 2019, 9:17am UTC](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/itunes-change-alert/429010/3 "2019-05-22T09:17:52Z")
For the time being, manually switching “music” with “itunes” works without redirects. I’ve submitted [MBS-10193](https://tickets.metabrainz.org/browse/MBS-10193) so editors don’t have to do this manually. > [@tigerman325](#): > > the script no longer works It does if you manually swap “music” with “itunes” in the URL. ---
### Author: ![tigerman325](https://community.metabrainz.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/b9bd4f/32.png) [@tigerman325](https://community.metabrainz.org/u/tigerman325) #### Post date: [May 22, 2019, 10:24am UTC](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/itunes-change-alert/429010/4 "2019-05-22T10:24:11Z")
Yeah, I went and edited my script and it works. So, easy fix. ---
### Author: ![jesus2099](https://community.metabrainz.org/user_avatar/community.metabrainz.org/jesus2099/32/36_2.png) [@jesus2099](https://community.metabrainz.org/u/jesus2099) #### Post date: [May 22, 2019, 2:08pm UTC](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/itunes-change-alert/429010/5 "2019-05-22T14:08:29Z")
I went to a random iTunes page I came across recently but I am not redirected to Apple Music and I still see the old URL correctly. 1. [https://itunes.apple.com/jp/album/id1406665639](https://itunes.apple.com/jp/album/id1406665639) 2. [https://music.apple.com/jp/album/id1406665639](https://music.apple.com/jp/album/id1406665639) They both work without redirect. Do you know when they are going to auto redirect to the second URL? * * * FTR I’m asking this because currently we cannot call the `itunes.apple.com/lookup` search API from a `music.apple.com` page ([CORS](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross-origin_resource_sharing) not declared). And the `music.apple.com/lookup` URL does not exist. I don’t know which one of the two fixes they will choose. So my current fix is not yet OK to submit to dufferzafar: > ---
### Author: ![tigerman325](https://community.metabrainz.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/b9bd4f/32.png) [@tigerman325](https://community.metabrainz.org/u/tigerman325) #### Post date: [May 22, 2019, 8:18pm UTC](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/itunes-change-alert/429010/6 "2019-05-22T20:18:53Z")
[itunes.apple.com](http://itunes.apple.com) is the new way. It seems they’ve started integrating before now. It was [www.itunes.com](http://www.itunes.com). I use “[fnd.io](http://fnd.io)” to locate iTunes releases. It always brought me to [www.itunes.com](http://www.itunes.com) before. I think it might not have been an all at once thing, because I’ve noticed that some have [itunes.apple.com](http://itunes.apple.com) address for their links for a while now, but mine always was [www.itunes.com](http://www.itunes.com). With that address it had both the iTunes & Apple Music ID’s together and when you clicked “see in Apple Music” it’d bring you there and vice versa. In the script, I had to manually change the [www.itunes.com](http://www.itunes.com) in the addresses to [itunes.apple.com](http://itunes.apple.com) yesterday to make it work. Yeah, it only works on [itunes.apple.com](http://itunes.apple.com), but not [music.apple.com](http://music.apple.com). I tried it with the second also and got no results. Most of the time they are the same ID, but it would be nice to have both urls since they are technically 2 different sites now. ---
### Author: ![jesus2099](https://community.metabrainz.org/user_avatar/community.metabrainz.org/jesus2099/32/36_2.png) [@jesus2099](https://community.metabrainz.org/u/jesus2099) #### Post date: [May 22, 2019, 8:28pm UTC](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/itunes-change-alert/429010/7 "2019-05-22T20:28:43Z")
Oh sorry I misunderstood OP as I had never heard of `www.itunes.com` before. I can drop my user script change above, it is useless. ---
### Author: ![Zas](https://community.metabrainz.org/user_avatar/community.metabrainz.org/zas/32/28_2.png) [@Zas](https://community.metabrainz.org/u/Zas) #### Post date: [May 22, 2019, 11:01pm UTC](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/itunes-change-alert/429010/8 "2019-05-22T23:01:44Z")
My fix seems to work, but i only tested on firefox 67 on linux > ---
### Author: ![yindesu](https://community.metabrainz.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/y/b77776/32.png) [@yindesu](https://community.metabrainz.org/u/yindesu) #### Post date: [May 23, 2019, 1:34am UTC](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/itunes-change-alert/429010/9 "2019-05-23T01:34:53Z")
I’ve never seen [www.itunes.com](http://www.itunes.com) before - it’s always been [itunes.apple.com](http://itunes.apple.com) for me… ---
### Author: ![tigerman325](https://community.metabrainz.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/b9bd4f/32.png) [@tigerman325](https://community.metabrainz.org/u/tigerman325) #### Post date: [May 23, 2019, 4:31am UTC](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/itunes-change-alert/429010/10 "2019-05-23T04:31:50Z")
Yeah, you’re right. It was [itunes.apple.com](http://itunes.apple.com) or [www.itunes.com](http://www.itunes.com). Seems both worked. However, as of tonight, all [itunes.apple.com](http://itunes.apple.com) sites are being redirected to [music.apple.com](http://music.apple.com) and the script no longer works. I manually went and changed all the [itunes.apple.com](http://itunes.apple.com) to [music.apple.com](http://music.apple.com) and that didn’t work. That’s about all my knowledge of scripting allows me to try. 🙂 ---
### Author: ![HibiscusKazeneko](https://community.metabrainz.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/h/3da27b/32.png) [@HibiscusKazeneko](https://community.metabrainz.org/u/HibiscusKazeneko) #### Post date: [May 25, 2019, 5:47am UTC](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/itunes-change-alert/429010/11 "2019-05-25T05:47:49Z")
Update: The manual replacement trick I mentioned earlier no longer works. Even following a link from MB (which worked previously) results in an automatic redirect. This means the iTunes import script no longer works (for the time being, at least) but it’s still possible to glean release dates, barcodes, cover art, etc. by digging in the page source manually. ---
### Author: ![tigerman325](https://community.metabrainz.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/b9bd4f/32.png) [@tigerman325](https://community.metabrainz.org/u/tigerman325) #### Post date: [May 25, 2019, 6:29am UTC](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/itunes-change-alert/429010/12 "2019-05-25T06:29:58Z")
The script has been updated and appears to be working fine for me now. Check to make sure you have the newest script. It came out last night. ---
### Author: ![yvanzo](https://community.metabrainz.org/user_avatar/community.metabrainz.org/yvanzo/32/2864_2.png) [@yvanzo](https://community.metabrainz.org/u/yvanzo) #### Post date: [June 3, 2019, 11:03am UTC](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/itunes-change-alert/429010/13 "2019-06-03T11:03:15Z")
Can you give full URL examples of artist/release/recording available on one website but not on the other? ---
### Author: ![HibiscusKazeneko](https://community.metabrainz.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/h/3da27b/32.png) [@HibiscusKazeneko](https://community.metabrainz.org/u/HibiscusKazeneko) #### Post date: [June 3, 2019, 7:53pm UTC](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/itunes-change-alert/429010/14 "2019-06-03T19:53:38Z")
> **[‎Eleanor Rigby - Single by Alice Cooper](https://music.apple.com/us/album/1233641551)** > > ‎Album · 2014 · 1 Song This single is only available on Apple Music. ---
### Author: ![tigerman325](https://community.metabrainz.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/b9bd4f/32.png) [@tigerman325](https://community.metabrainz.org/u/tigerman325) #### Post date: [June 3, 2019, 7:56pm UTC](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/itunes-change-alert/429010/15 "2019-06-03T19:56:27Z")
iTunes release: > **[‎Mechanical Animals by Marilyn Manson](https://music.apple.com/us/album/1440738173)** > > ‎Album · 1998 · 14 Songs Apple music release: > **[‎Mechanical Animals by Marilyn Manson](https://music.apple.com/us/album/id1077804860)** > > ‎Album · 1998 · 14 Songs They have the same barcode, but different Apple IDs. ---
### Author: ![yvanzo](https://community.metabrainz.org/user_avatar/community.metabrainz.org/yvanzo/32/2864_2.png) [@yvanzo](https://community.metabrainz.org/u/yvanzo) #### Post date: [June 3, 2019, 8:22pm UTC](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/itunes-change-alert/429010/16 "2019-06-03T20:22:12Z")
Thanks! The iTunes release [https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/1440738173](https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/1440738173) you gave is correctly redirected to [https://music.apple.com/us/album/1440738173](https://music.apple.com/us/album/1440738173). So updating these URLs in the MusicBrainz database won’t be an issue, right? Apple music release [https://music.apple.com/us/album/id1077804860](https://music.apple.com/us/album/id1077804860) you gave and [https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/id1233641551](https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/id1233641551) @HibiscusKazeneko gave are not available on iTunes which is going to be discontinued soon anyway, thus I guess there is no need to distinguish between IDs valid for Apple Music only and IDs valid for both iTunes and Apple Music, right? Is it still necessary to have both URLs when these are the same IDs? Should we still consider two different websites or just anticipate on `itunes.apple.com` becoming just a redirect in the near future? ---
### Author: ![HibiscusKazeneko](https://community.metabrainz.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/h/3da27b/32.png) [@HibiscusKazeneko](https://community.metabrainz.org/u/HibiscusKazeneko) #### Post date: [June 3, 2019, 8:24pm UTC](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/itunes-change-alert/429010/17 "2019-06-03T20:24:28Z")
> [@yvanzo](#): > > iTunes which is going to be discontinued soon anyway That’s not entirely clear. What _is_ clear is that the desktop app is being discontinued; what’s still up in the air is whether there will still be a way to purchase content. More on that in [this thread](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/new-relationship-as-itunes-store-is-soon-becoming-deprecated/430500/). Edit to avoid double-posting: [It looks like Apple isn’t killing off paid downloads after all](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/new-relationship-as-itunes-store-is-soon-becoming-deprecated/430500/6). ---
### Author: ![InfidelRider](https://community.metabrainz.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/i/4bbf92/32.png) [@InfidelRider](https://community.metabrainz.org/u/InfidelRider) #### Post date: [August 25, 2019, 7:54am UTC](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/itunes-change-alert/429010/18 "2019-08-25T07:54:08Z")
I haven’t been able to use the script since the change came in (Firefox on Windows with Greasemonkey). ---
### Author: ![Fabe56](https://community.metabrainz.org/user_avatar/community.metabrainz.org/fabe56/32/9164_2.png) [@Fabe56](https://community.metabrainz.org/u/Fabe56) #### Post date: [April 17, 2020, 5:34pm UTC](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/itunes-change-alert/429010/19 "2020-04-17T17:34:50Z")
Another iTunes/Apple Music change with the web interface now available: > **[Apple Music for the web leaves beta in time for One World: Together at Home...](https://www.theverge.com/2020/4/17/21224749/apple-music-web-interface-ends-beta-one-world-together-at-home-concert)** > > Offering an alternative for Windows, Linux, and ChromeOS users. The major changes I notice for the moment, old iTunes id doesn’t redirect to new Apple Music id like before. Example [https://itunes.apple.com/it/album/id40060616](https://itunes.apple.com/it/album/id40060616) should redirect to [https://music.apple.com/it/album/la-llorona/285102738](https://music.apple.com/it/album/la-llorona/285102738). Or country redirection, like [https://music.apple.com/gb/album/1440902312](https://music.apple.com/gb/album/1440902312) was redirected to [https://music.apple.com/gb/album/1337713157](https://music.apple.com/gb/album/1337713157), again this doesn’t work anymore. For both only an empty page is available. ---
### Author: ![tigerman325](https://community.metabrainz.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/b9bd4f/32.png) [@tigerman325](https://community.metabrainz.org/u/tigerman325) #### Post date: [April 17, 2020, 6:41pm UTC](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/itunes-change-alert/429010/20 "2020-04-17T18:41:57Z")
I actually have an Apple Music account and I noticed starting this morning that Apple Music is now embeded on the website and not just the app. The “Also available on iTunes” link appears to be gone. So, yes, outside of Windows software, it appears that iTunes is history. I also only got a blank page as you stated. We really need to update iTunes on MB. I asked last year for an update on the links to show an icon for Apple Music. Nothing has been done. [Next page](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/itunes-change-alert/429010.md?page=2)