Coffee break- iTunes’ Song of the Day
Apple has been running a Song of the Day in conjunction with Starbucks that provides a free song each day for customers in the store. When you pay for your latte they give you a card with information about the free song of the day on the front and information (including the code) explaining how to get your free song. I have largely been ignoring this freebie this week but today I decided that was silly since the songs are free so today I gave it a whirl to see how easy it is to redeem.
Very easy, it turns out. I already use iTunes so all I had to do was open it and go to the iTunes Music Store. There is a “Quick links” section on the right of that store’s home page and I clicked the Redeem link. I entered the song’s code on the provided dialog and the song automatically downloaded in just a few seconds. The song I got is Moon from Emily King and it’s not bad. I am going to make sure I get my free song each day that I visit Starbucks from now on. Oh yeah, that’s almost every day. 
Wow never knew about that. Will definitely try it.
Do you have to bring up iTunes at Starbucks or can you grab a card and download it later?
It doesn’t say, I’ll try it outside Starbucks next time.
The cards can be redeemed until the end of the year. They can be redeemed anywhere iTunes can get to the iTunes store. They can not be redeemed via iPhone (WiFi Music Store). You can email an un-used code to your Mom and she can copy and paste it to get the tune. No purchase is required, so long as you are polite.
They also have a program going for their stored value cards. Get one of theirnew Starbucks/iTunes stored value cards and register it to your Starbucks online account and they give you a code good for two free iTunes songs of your choice. Codes entitle you to a $.99 or a $1.29 song prior to Feb 2008. You don’t get two codes for re-filling the card, so they’re encouraging you to keep getting cards to keep getting more tunes.
If you can get to a Starbucks here in Zunetown (aka Redmond) you can get the previous 3 or 4 days of Song of the Day cards per visit. Collect the whole set, three or four of them!
Its Microsoft policy that you can’t work for Microsoft and show an iPod at work, including it being visible in your car in a Microsoft parking garage.
If you can get the KT Tunstall card you also get a free documentary download as well.
Well, my household is an iTunes/iPod free zone, so if anyone wants Keith Urban’s “I Told You So”, here’s the download code I got yesterday:
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Enjoy!
Thanks Oliver! Downloading now. Sorry I don’t have any codes for you “iPod Free” Zone in return.
Stu, glad someone could make use of it. I have enough good music on CDs (and consequently also on my NAS server in MP3/FLAC) that I am covered for a while.
I would like to mention some blatant age discrimination that is occurring at Starbucks. I go in each day for my coffee and my “song of the day”. Most of the time there is someone ahead of me in line. I have definitely noticed that if you look like you are in your late teens or twenties, the staff at Starbucks will hand you an itunes card and say something like “have a song of the day.” Now when I walk up (or anyone else that looks a little older), no itunes card is offered and you have to ask for your card to get one. I am enjoying this promotion and the songs are not especially appealing to younger people. But I enjoy them very much. I have to drive out of my way to go to Starbucks, so I only will as long as the itunes cards are being doled out. I would definitely have a more positive opinion of Starbucks if they were equally free with the itunes cards across all age groups.
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