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Lots of people jumping on the Google Instant train...

Anyways, towards your iTunes instant: Why not offer the possibility to preview songs from your web app? You get the preview URL via the API!

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Good idea. I think that is totally possible through HTML5 right?

Yes. Check out Marco Arment's preview.fm. He had a similar web app that allows you to preview album.

Oh yeah, I've heard about it before. I will definitely implement it using <audio> if it doesn't heavily affect loadtime.

Definitely man! That feature will be quite useful.

Thanks.

It shouldn't affect load time at all. Don't load the preview until the user requests it. That's the one feature I thought was missing. Otherwise, it would be awesome. I mainly use iTunes to listen to preview, removing the step to go to iTunes for that would be awesome! :)

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