How is apple doing this? songs from youtube.

[kymac]

i was on youtube today.. and the video i was watching had a song in it.. and then a link popped up and said 'buy this song from itunes'.. are they using song recognization software? i dont get it!

 

[ziggyonice]

I think it's probably the poster of the video who allowed a connection to the iTunes store. I remember hearing a while back that YouTube was taking down videos that had music in them, so I don't think YouTube or Apple would be the ones providing the links.

 

[xUKHCx]

Here is the youtube blog entery from when the announced the feature

http://www.youtube.com/blog?entry=-y_3IbT8mJU

When you view a YouTube video with a great soundtrack, you often see comments from YouTube users asking about the name of the song and where they can download it. Or when users watch the trailer for an upcoming video game, they want to know when it will be released and where they can buy it.

Today, we're taking our first steps to providing YouTube users with this kind of instant gratification, by adding "click-to-buy" links to the watch pages of thousands of YouTube partner videos. Click-to-buy links are non-obtrusive retail links, placed on the watch page beneath the video with the other community features. Just as YouTube users can share, favorite, comment on, and respond to videos quickly and easily, now users can click-to-buy products -- like songs, books, and movies -- related to the content they're watching on the site. We're getting started by embedding iTunes and Amazon.com links on videos from companies like EMI Music, and providing Amazon.com product links to the newly released video game Spore(TM) on videos from Electronic Arts.

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As the previous poster said I believe it is something the person adding the song to youtube has to do or at least submit the information to youtube so they can add later on.