Would it be possible someday to...?

[WolfenAmphithere]

Make some sort of app for the iPhone or iPod that would allow direct download of ReMixes onto them? Or maybe some way to download directly from the site? Dunno if that would even work for the way the iPod/iTunes is set up, just a thought. Wouldn't need to be anytime soon, either. Just had that idea last night, maybe it was this morning. Time is so messed up right now XD

[DarkeSword]

Apple will never allow applications that can download music directly into the iPhone/iPod touch music library. As cool as it would be, don't count on it.

That said, you can always set up some kind of podcast feed that you can set your iTunes to to download the latest remixes automatically, but that would have to be a third-party thing. OCR won't do that because we want people to come to the site to get the music and participate a little (read Dave's writeup, leave a review, etc.).

[zircon]

Actually, Shariq, I've heard that in the next iteration of the iPhone they will support apps that let you open the iTunes stores directly within the app.

[analoq]

I'm not in the SDK beta program but unfortunately I believe the upcoming media library access is read-only. Apps can pull music from your library but they can't add music to it, not directly at least.

You could make a mobile OCR app that downloads/plays music, displays writeups, lets you contribute reviews etc.. but the music downloaded would be "native" to the app; the remixes wouldn't show up in the main media library or sync back to iTunes on your desktop.

[WolfenAmphithere]

yeah I kind of figured that was the case... but still, and OCR app would be awesome

[analoq]

It'd be the same thing I said in the Blackberry app thread: Maintaining software is a chore, so there'd have to be substantial demand from iPhone/Touch users to make something like that worthwhile.

edit:

cheers.