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Tuesday January 6, 2009 4:31 pm
How to upgrade your iTunes purchases to DRM-free iTunes Plus
Earlier today during the MacWorld 2009 keynote, Apple announced that the iTunes Store was on the way to completely dropping DRM. As of today, 8,000,000 of the 10,000,000 tracks are now available as DRM-free iTunes Plus tracks, and that even includes music videos. We figured we’d give you a quick look at how you go about upgrading your library of purchased content.
So the first thing you want to do is go to the iTunes Store, and look on the right-hand side. You’ll see “iTunes Plus” as one of the links, with a number next to it. That number represents the number of pieces of content that you have available that can be upgraded. Click on that.
Once you do, you’ll see something similar to the above. You are shown the cost of the upgrade, and the number of tracks, albums, and music videos that it will upgrade as well. Go ahead and hit the “See Details” button.
Now you are shown a page that is completely focused on your upgradeable content. You can look at everything available and make sure everything looks good. If you like it, hit the Buy button. All your upgradeable content that you are updating will be moved to your Trash, and replaced with the higher quality, DRM-free iTunes Plus versions.
Your content will start downloading immediately, and you are all set!
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Comments:
My ipod is set to manually transfer from library itunes. After the update of songs to itunes plus : do i have to delete songs on ipod first and transfer the new ones from library or is there a quicker and easier way?
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Yeah, I would remove those songs and then add the new ones - or if you dont care about duplicates, just add the new ones in. Of course, the quickest way is to just auto-sync
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So I did the upgrade. I have a few issues though.
1. iTunes did NOT upgrade my entire library for DRM’d music. While some of the track are not available yet. about a half dozen were. Why didn’t those get upgraded? I’m willing to pay.
2. If iTunes is supposed to be completely DRM free in a few months, will I be able to update the rest of my songs then?
3. I own one music video I purchased from iTunes. It is now available DRM free. I see no where I can purchase the upgrade for $0.60 like it says on the website.
I’m just glad I’ve only purchased a small amount of items from iTunes. I would imagine trying to upgrade hundreds of items a nightmare.
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Steve - you’ll be able to upgrade again when the songs that are not yet available as iTunes Plus tracks are converted
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Has Apple mentioned how much time customers will have to be able to upgrade our iTunes library? I know that they have said that they hope all the music offered will be upgraded by April but I am more concerned about finding the necessary funds to upgrade my library before it’s too late.
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If I do not want to upgrade all my music to iTunes Plus but only some songs. How do I do it?
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