Apple recently announced that it was doing away with it’s unfair DRM copy protection. Awesome news. Going one step further, the company is giving anyone who’s ever bought songs on iTunes the ability to upgrade their music to DRM-free versions. For a fee of course. There is a catch. As Wilson Rothman over at Gizmodo discovered, you have to upgrade all of them at once.
That really sucks, because if you’ve been at it for awhile just downloading away over the years, you have a problem. Costs can easily be in the hundreds of dollars. There is no way to upgrade your titles individually. Things like this are why some of us don’t use the service. They’re going to make you pay again for songs you already bought? Nice one Apple.
Are any of you looking at a huge bill that is going towards Steve’s Hormone therapy?
[Gizmodo]
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Apple, DRM Free, fee, iTunes, music, upgrade
If the only reason you need to upgrade is because you want a DRM-free song and not because you want a higher bit rate, all you have to do is burn your music onto a CD and then rip the CD back onto your HD. The result is the same file with no DRM.
I’ve heard that you should rip the songs at 256 because 128 might degrade the quality of a song that started out as 128, but I don’t know if that’s true. If you burn the files onto recordable CD-R’s you can just erase them and re-use them.