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To upgrade your library go to the iTunes Store. On the right side you'll see iTunes Plus (x). Go there and you can upgrade. I'm not terribly excited about payi

by Jasber 18y ago

To upgrade your library go to the iTunes Store. On the right side you'll see iTunes Plus (x). Go there and you can upgrade. I'm not terribly excited about paying again for the same music, but I hate DRM enough to make this 1-time upgrade. It looks like we might be in the middle of a pricing war between Amazon and iTunes: iTunes: $.99 + DRM Amazon: $.89 + No DRM iTunes: $.69 + No DRM Anyone care to guess how low online music will go?

tptacek 18y ago
$0.30 a song. A significant amount of money for me (and it doesn't detect most of my tracks; I've run one too many ruby scripts on my iTunes Library file). Not worth it.
- tdavis 18y ago
  Honestly, if you don't think a piece of music is worth 30¢, you don't really deserve to listen to it.
  - unalone 18y ago
    He's referring to the upgrade cost, not the actual price.
  - tptacek 18y ago
    I thought it was worth 99c when I bought it. I don't think it's going to be worth $570 just to strip off a DRM feature that doesn't actually bother me.
    - tdavis 18y ago
      Ah, I thought you were replying with regard to the question "Anyone care to guess how low online music will go?" In the case of upgrading, I don't disagree. Sorry for the wrongful callout, it just drives me nuts when people have thousands of songs and listen to music all the time and say "it isn't worth paying for."
      - tptacek 18y ago
        Holy living fuck, I just did the math on how much that upgrade price means I spent on music over the last few years.
        blasdel 18y ago
        Seriously! You saved some time by downloading from iTunes rather than via bittorrent. Was that time worth thousands of dollars?
        tptacek 18y ago
        I also think it's wrong to take music without paying for it.
        blasdel 18y ago
        s/take/copy/
        tptacek 18y ago
        You see, I carefully didn't use the word "steal" to avoid the copyfight pedantry, but that wasn't enough for you. "Copying" commercial music that you didn't pay for is unethical, just like "copying" a typeface family, "copying" a website design, or "copying" and black-labeling a GPL'd software package.
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        tdavis 18y ago
        I know, right! I mean, if music weren't free to produce and distribute it'd be one thing, but since it is, why doesn't everybody use bittorrent?!?! sigh
        GHFigs 18y ago
- rufo 18y ago
  It doesn't use the tags, it looks up your account history. The MacBook Pro I'm sitting in front of doesn't have any of the music it's offering to upgrade to iTunes Plus.
  - tptacek 18y ago
    Good to know. Apparently most of my music just isn't in iTunes Plus yet.
puffythefish 18y ago
Is there a way to just "upgrade" certain songs instead of your entire library?

by Jasber 18y ago

tptacek 18y ago

$0.30 a song. A significant amount of money for me (and it doesn't detect most of my tracks; I've run one too many ruby scripts on my iTunes Library file). Not worth it.

tdavis 18y ago
Honestly, if you don't think a piece of music is worth 30¢, you don't really deserve to listen to it.
- unalone 18y ago
  He's referring to the upgrade cost, not the actual price.
- tptacek 18y ago
  I thought it was worth 99c when I bought it. I don't think it's going to be worth $570 just to strip off a DRM feature that doesn't actually bother me.
  - tdavis 18y ago
    Ah, I thought you were replying with regard to the question "Anyone care to guess how low online music will go?" In the case of upgrading, I don't disagree. Sorry for the wrongful callout, it just drives me nuts when people have thousands of songs and listen to music all the time and say "it isn't worth paying for."
    - tptacek 18y ago
      Holy living fuck, I just did the math on how much that upgrade price means I spent on music over the last few years.
      - blasdel 18y ago
        Seriously! You saved some time by downloading from iTunes rather than via bittorrent. Was that time worth thousands of dollars?
        tptacek 18y ago
        I also think it's wrong to take music without paying for it.
        blasdel 18y ago
        s/take/copy/
        tptacek 18y ago
        You see, I carefully didn't use the word "steal" to avoid the copyfight pedantry, but that wasn't enough for you. "Copying" commercial music that you didn't pay for is unethical, just like "copying" a typeface family, "copying" a website design, or "copying" and black-labeling a GPL'd software package.
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        tdavis 18y ago
        I know, right! I mean, if music weren't free to produce and distribute it'd be one thing, but since it is, why doesn't everybody use bittorrent?!?! sigh
        GHFigs 18y ago
rufo 18y ago
It doesn't use the tags, it looks up your account history. The MacBook Pro I'm sitting in front of doesn't have any of the music it's offering to upgrade to iTunes Plus.
- tptacek 18y ago
  Good to know. Apparently most of my music just isn't in iTunes Plus yet.

puffythefish 18y ago

Is there a way to just "upgrade" certain songs instead of your entire library?