Last week at MacWorld Apple finally announced that the vast majority of the music on iTunes would be DRM free and that prices on a lot of back catalogue tunes would actually go down. I guess this is in response to Amazon’s MP3 store which is cheaper and also DRM free. All good news so far. I thought I might upgrade my existing music to the new 256kb DRM free format so imagine my surprise when I went to the iTunes store to find that to “upgrade” my music collection I have to pay more now that each song or album actually costs less. Not sure how that works, but you can be sure I shan’t be “upgrading”!
I don’t mind that too much, but I do object to the fact that it’s an “all or nothing” move.
I have very little music that has DRM — just the odd track — but I wouldn’t mind “upgrading” those few tracks from 128kps to 256kps. Except you can’t! You can’t pick & choose which tracks to process.