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I saw an article on this a while back that said soon iTunes would become DRM-Free.

I lost the article but this is proof that iTunes Plus songs are DRM Free anyways.

High-quality, DRM-free music.
iTunes Plus is the new standard on iTunes.
Now, you can choose from millions of iTunes Plus songs from all four major music labels and thousands of independents. With iTunes Plus, you get high-quality, 256-Kbps AAC encoding. All free of burn limits and digital rights management (DRM). So iTunes Plus music will play on iPod, Apple TV, all Mac and Windows computers, and many other digital music players. It’s also easy to upgrade your iTunes library to iTunes Plus. You don’t have to buy the song or album again. Just pay the 30¢ per song upgrade price. (Music video upgrades are 60¢ and entire albums can be upgraded for 30 percent of the album price.)
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http://www.apple.com/itunes/overview/
http://www.apple.com/itunes/whatsnew/

I'm surprised. Not all albums, songs, and EP's on iTunes are iTunes plus but some are and they are adding more.

I never tried the iTunes Plus thing before. So I am not sure if it was DRM-Free before either. If so I am so damn slow and this thread is flameworthy >_>"

But yeah. Has anyone bought any iTunes Plus songs recently and is it really DRM-Free?

It says there is an option for 30 cent to upgrade any song you have to iTunes plus as well. That's actually a pretty smart thing to do. But I thought they did iTunes plus a while back. I am just trying to figure out if the DRM-Free thing is a new thing they added to iTunes plus. It sounds like it anyways.
 
I always buy iTunes Plus (DRM free and higher bitrate/quality) if its available. It's been available for around 2 years, but only for certain music catalogues (such as EMI).

But at the Macworld Keynote speech mentioned above, Apple announced yesterday that within a couple of months they will remove DRM from ALL their music content. They're also going to introduce a variable price structure: old songs will be cheaper than new ones, etc.
 
So that's why it's called iTunes Plus. Yeah I don't like iTunes tracks because I think that buying the CD and ripping it is a hell lot better quality then the tracks on the iTunes Store.

But who knows, iTunes Plus might be better. But also lots of bands are now releasing exclusive EP's, sessions, and things like that on iTunes. Stuff you can't get on a CD.

So I guess they are trying to expand the iTunes Plus now. I should try a song or two and see what it's like.

I noticed over the last few days or so that instead of iTunes Plus songs saying "1.29" They are now 99. And that more albums and eps are now iTunes plus.

Oh the keynote was yesterday huh. I missed that. I did see that.

I think someone estimated that new songs would be 1.29 and older songs 66 cents. And the 1.29 ones I think the music labels decide. And that starts in april I believe. I can check the keynote and see if that is official or not. Although I think 1.29 is kind of high. If the DRM is really that good though. Well sound quality as well then maybe.

OH AND YAY. iTunes Music Store now works on 3G and edge. Thank god. It's hard to find Wi-Fi sometimes.

I will watch the keynote after I sleep..although I really wanna watch it now darnit.
 
There's no substitute for buying the CD and ripping it yourself, that's for sure. I'm a real music-quality nazi, and I prefer to rip my own stuff using the Apple Lossless codec. It's about 5 times bigger than an average MP3, but it sounds perfect.
 
andysayshi said:
I always buy iTunes Plus (DRM free and higher bitrate/quality) if its available. It's been available for around 2 years, but only for certain music catalogues (such as EMI).

But at the Macworld Keynote speech mentioned above, Apple announced yesterday that within a couple of months they will remove DRM from ALL their music content. They're also going to introduce a variable price structure: old songs will be cheaper than new ones, etc.
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I guess they agreed to the labels' condition then. They could have had everything DRM free a long time ago but the labels wanted to have variable pricing as a condition. Only EMI had agreed to it without that. Apple rejected that because they wanted to maintain their uniform price structure.
 
andysayshi said:
There's no substitute for buying the CD and ripping it yourself, that's for sure. I'm a real music-quality nazi, and I prefer to rip my own stuff using the Apple Lossless codec. It's about 5 times bigger than an average MP3, but it sounds perfect.
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I agree with that. I know some people say you can still download very good quality music. But you never know. With your own CD. You can make sure that it's good quality. Unless it's a boot leg CD.

Apple Loseless codec?

I've never heard of that.

I usually just use WMP and then do the middle setting for sound quality. I can make it higher but I am fine with the middle size. I don't want the file size too big anyways.
 
- reason to up the prices
- amazon was doing it already ;)
 
colour me cynical but i must say it is interesting timing put drm'ed movies and tv shows on itunes and take drm off of songs seems like a bait and switch to me very apple

of course i am wrong in so many ways as i will be no doubt ably told now ;)
 
I thought that they said something about the videos being 60 cents to take the DRM thing off of the ones you bought.

Does that only mean music videos?
 
As it was now revealed the DRM free files do contain your e-mail address :roll:
 
Corny said:
As it was now revealed the DRM free files do contain your e-mail address :roll:
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That has been the case all along. I'm not sure what the big deal is over that. Unless you are going to share the files online why would you care?
 
That is kind of dangerous.

I mean if you send it to a friend. Not a peer site. But just a friend or something.

Then he can get your email and other information. I guess if you download DRM free songs you just have to be careful about what you do with the files. It's sort of clever for them to stop file sharing. But a bit of danger as well. Although that might be rare.
 
^ that's the point.

Former friend wants to ruin you? You shared some mp3s with him or left your music cd or your iPod out of sight in his presence for a few moments? You are ruined.
 
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