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iTunes Dumps DRM
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The Sack
07-01-2009
About time too
Sexbomb
07-01-2009
Originally Posted by The Sack:
“About time too”

Source?
markmag
07-01-2009
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7813527.stm
jammers
07-01-2009
Originally Posted by The Sack:
“About time too”

Well done record labels, at last.
Daveoc64
07-01-2009
It hasn't entirely dumped DRM.

I still have 582 songs that aren't available as iTunes Plus.
jammers
07-01-2009
Originally Posted by Daveoc64:
“It hasn't entirely dumped DRM.

I still have 582 songs that aren't available as iTunes Plus.”

8 million today, 2 million more by April.

The one annoying thing is you can only upgrade every song available - you can't upgrade bits and pieces so my upgrade so far is about £50. Not sure I want to spend that much especially as I don't listen to all of the songs that often.
Sexbomb
07-01-2009
They should make all the songs itunes plus and give us better quality sound.
Cstar2229
07-01-2009
Good, DRM is annoying
Daveoc64
07-01-2009
Originally Posted by jammers:
“The one annoying thing is you can only upgrade every song available - you can't upgrade bits and pieces so my upgrade so far is about £50. Not sure I want to spend that much especially as I don't listen to all of the songs that often.”

That's the problem I have.

I paid £82 to upgrade some of it, now I'm being told £22 will get me an additional 120 songs (some of which I know I don't want to upgrade).

Plus I know that there will be even more to upgrade in the future.
darkjedimaster
07-01-2009
Originally Posted by Daveoc64:
“That's the problem I have.

I paid £82 to upgrade some of it, now I'm being told £22 will get me an additional 120 songs (some of which I know I don't want to upgrade).

Plus I know that there will be even more to upgrade in the future.”

The evil of DRM is being scrapped at long freaking last. Now I can put all my forthcoming songs on all of my devices without the need of using *coughs* external software.
jammers
07-01-2009
Originally Posted by Sexbomb:
“They should make all the songs itunes plus and give us better quality sound.”

I think they are.
sancheeez
07-01-2009
Good riddance DRM!

(Not that it affects me but it does affect my wife .... she uses an iPod & iTunes)

But whats all this paying to "upgrade"? Surely if you already have a DRM version of a song from them, which you paid for, they'll give you the non-DRM version for nothing?

No?
pumazooma
07-01-2009
No.
You have to pay an extra 20p to update each one.
But you can only do ALL of them. You can't cherry pick the songs you want to update which I think is a bad move.
The Sack
07-01-2009
Originally Posted by Sexbomb:
“Source?”

Why? Didn't you believe me?
sancheeez
07-01-2009
Originally Posted by pumazooma:
“No.
You have to pay an extra 20p to update each one.
But you can only do ALL of them. You can't cherry pick the songs you want to update which I think is a bad move.”

lol

Much as I applaud them for finally dropping DRM, I do also have to say ...... what a bunch of robbing b@$t@rd$!

Glad I've always avoided DRM'd stuff like the plague.
grumsta
07-01-2009
Oh well, at least it's a one-off payment. Only about half my purchased tracks are currently available to upgrade, so at least I can spread the payments out.

And now iVolume can work its magic and get all the volumes the same. Bonus!
jammers
07-01-2009
Originally Posted by sancheeez:
“lol

Much as I applaud them for finally dropping DRM, I do also have to say ...... what a bunch of robbing b@$t@rd$!

Glad I've always avoided DRM'd stuff like the plague.”

Record companies for you.
!J!
07-01-2009
although i think i is good, i can understand them asking us to pay again to upgrade it (kinda cheeky tho) but waht pisses me off is that i can't just upgrade certain songs i need to do the whole lot! i mean underneath the 'special offer' (what are they going to put the upgrade prices up?) is that they advertise i can update my beyonce album for £2 but i cant just update that, i need to do my entire purchase library

also are all tracks that get downloaded now 320kbs and drm free?
Sananda Maitreya
07-01-2009
Originally Posted by !J!:
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also are all tracks that get downloaded now 320kbs and drm free?”

now 256 and drm free.
!J!
07-01-2009
ah k thanks. to be honest i dont think the upgrade is gonna be my priority at the moment id rather buy more music
Matt-08
07-01-2009
Just get 320kbps MP3s from Play.com - £0.65 - £0.75.
Superwomble
07-01-2009
This has much less to do with Apple changing its mind and far more to do with the opening of Amazon Mp3 store IMO.

Apple could have done this much earlier than it did. It suited them not to.
Chip_chip
07-01-2009
why pay to upgrade? just re rip them
!J!
07-01-2009
Originally Posted by Chip_chip:
“why pay to upgrade? just re rip them”

do you mean download them illegally or something? cos it music i have already bought
frailfury
07-01-2009
Are songs from itunes in mp3 format?
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