The Dick Venom & The Terrortones single is going to be available from various digital download stores including iTunes and Amazon.

I want to include a link to these stores from our merchandise page and also in an email I'm currently building. However when I make the link using the iTunes Link Maker I have to specify a particular country's store.

Has anyone who has done this before know of any way to make a link that will direct people to the correct country store based on their location?

No-one?

I miss the MacUser forum...

:-(

It's non-trivial. You either have to rely on detecting the user's browser language settings or look up their IP in a table. Try Googling for "geolocation php script", first hit gives you this:

http://www.54bys.net/web-script/ip-addr ... cript.html



Also found this: http://script.wareseeker.com/download/g ... 329a7fd4f7

That definitely works. Quick proof of concept here: http://x404.yourwired.net/

Using data from here: http://www.hostip.info/

OK now updated it to actually generate the itunes link for the UK, US and Japan. CBA to type the rest in and I'm sure there's a better way, but it seems to work:

Link: http://x404.yourwired.net/

Source:

Fantastic!

Thanks very much for your hard work. I hope to be able to use that on the web site. Unfortunately I had also hoped to use it in the email newsletter that the band sends out once a month, but with it requiring scripting that's a bit of a non-starter...

I don't know if it's just me thinking more globally than the downloads stores, but surely it would make more sense if this was implemented within the store itself. After all the internet allows you to reach people all over the world, and selling downloads is a way of being able to easily get our music to people who can't come to the gigs and buy a CD, and I would suspect that at least 50% of our download sales are going to be people who don't live in the UK.

A lot of websites do implement this automatically, just not iTunes - at least not from any of the pages I've been to.

You can still kind of use it in the mail shot, but you'll have to link to a website other than iTunes and have it redirect them. Of course that is only really practical if you can host the script somewhere the recipients trust - like the band's.

Hope it works out.

And neither do Amazon seemingly - the other download store that I want to link to!

Is that you, Mike?

How about setting yourself up with an iTunes affiliate link, then setting up a webpage that links to that? That way you'll get a 4% kickback, and get stores by territory.