Posted on Friday, January 30 2009 @ 0:05 CET by Thomas De Maesschalck
Apple's DRM-free upgrade policy received lots of criticism as it was
all or nothing, but The Tech Report
writes today the firm has quietly upgraded its policy to enable track-by-track DRM-free upgrades, so it's no longer required to convert your entire music library.
Upgrades still cost 30 cents a track, and as far as we can tell, they still bump songs from 128Kbps to 256Kbps quality. 30 cents a track for a handful of albums shouldn't amount to much, but Apple's previous all-or-nothing policy incurred some hefty charges for some users. One Gizmodo editor said he would have had to cough up a staggering $250 to strip copy protection from his 52-album music library.
