My soon-to-be former roommate (and soon-to-be best man) Mike alerted me yesterday to an article published on Macworld. Apparently, when iTunes upgraded to higher quality, DRM-free music, you could pay 30 cents per song to upgrade music you'd already purchased--but in order to do that you would have to upgrade your entire library all at once. This would have (and did) cost iTunes users hundreds or even thousands of dollars if they chose to do so, and left them without the ability to only upgrade certain songs.
But fortunately, as the article says, iTunes has announced that users can now upgrade individual albums and individual tracks to iTunes Plus. There are still restrictions--as some of the comments say, if you purchased an album as an album you can't upgrade individual songs from that album--but it's much improved. It does make one wonder why they didn't implement this policy when they first introduced iTunes Plus; it's a rather shady business move if they were just trying to get some dedicated suckers to give them some extra cash before they introduced the pick-and-choose version. But in any case, I'm glad of the new turn of events. The article can be found at the link below.
"iTunes Plus upgrades go à la carte"
1 comment:
Sounds like an engineer assumption to me. Why wouldn't someone want to upgrade their whole library, after all?
Or it may have been a consequence of the negotiations with the RIAA. I wouldn't put much of anything past them...even stuff that's past Steve Jobs.
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