US Creative Music Store now in b

I just got my email announcing the beta launch of the US Creative Music Store. (Check your spam traps, folks; I had to fish mine out of there. Soundbuzz.com isn't exactly a known site to most US spam filters.)
It's largely as expected--backed by Soundbuzz (as are the existing Asia-Pacific stores), purchased files only, the usual 99c per track/$9.99 per album. The big news, of course, is that it's built into the current edition of MediaSource Organizer; just click on "Music Store" under Sources. (If it's not there and you're in the US or most Asia-Pacific countries, upgrade to the latest MediaSource.) It also makes a big deal of having "International and Asian songs"--as you might expect from a Singapore-based site, of course. (Yes, it's targeted at the US and sells in US dollars, but Soundbuzz, like Creative, is based in Singapore.)

Hi daniel, are you a new mod here?
I love asian songs (mostely anime and video games ones) Hopefully creative has some good ones in there store (hopefully i can check it out soon )

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In a message dated 1/14/2006 8:20:29 AM Pacific Standard Time,
[email protected] writes:
http://www.info.apple.com/kbnum/n300870
Thank you for your quick response. I already tried the link and all
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Date: 1/14/2006 8:20:29 AM Pacific Standard Time
From: [email protected]
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Customer First Name : Emily
Customer Last Name :
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Web Order # :
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Sub Issue : Can't connect
Comments : iTunes Account Name:
Platform : Windows XPSP1
Error Code :
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