Browse The iTunes Store Without the iTunes Program

Size at nearly 90MB, iTunes is a program that hogs your computer resources like no other media player or browser. Imagine running iTunes on a lower-end system. What do you do in case you just want to know whether or not the iTunes Store has a particular album?

You open up iTunes, consequently slowing down other concurrently running processes; due to your system’s hardware you experience a very low speed on iTunes and utilize more time than necessary trying to find out whether or not those songs are available on the Store.

That particular problem can now be solved. Whilst there is no alternative to the iTunes program while previewing the media available on the iTunes Store or purchasing it, you can now bypass the iTunes program if all your want to do is browse.

We’re talking about iTunes Preview.

iTunes Preview is Apple’s site that lets you see what is or is not available on the iTunes Store.

The media is categorized according to its genre; you can see practically all possible genres of music:

Clicking on any genre (say, Indie Rock) will take you to a page where you select the artist. You can choose the artist by the alphabet listing on top or click one of the most popular ones shown:

Click on an artist and a page will be shown that lists the artist’s biography, top albums, and top songs.

This procedure of browsing requires you to use your internet browser only. Once you’ve confirmed whether or not the iTunes Store has your songs, you can proceed to open the iTunes program and purchase your records/songs from there.

Till a lesser memory hogging alternative to the iTunes arrives, iTunes Preview seems to be the best time efficient way to deal with the iTunes Store.