TUAW Poll: Will you upgrade your iTunes music?

Interesting survey, but I don't like that it takes me away from the site. Maybe use a free survey from Vizu.com?! Really cool free flash surveys!

I voted yes, but i will not upgrade all of it. Probably only 4 and 5 Star rated songs, but that will still be a lot because i have purchased about 700 songs from the UK iTunes Store. But, now that i think about it, maybe i don't have much EMI music because i mainly listen to hip hip hop/rap music, and EMI don't seem to have much of that. 'Jermaine Dupri' and 'Dem Franchise Boyz' seem to be the only rappers on EMI. Oh well.

I've removed the DRM from my purchased music. Will I still have the option to upgrade those songs? How will iTunes know (they no longer show up in my "purchased" playlist).

Jon, I do agree with you about the pricing although I do feel like iTunes store offers more than most of the others and I am not personally interested in the subscription based services.

However, you are wrong about forcing the format (with DRM-free anyway). You can simply select any non-DRM track (or multiple tracks) and choose 'convert to mp3 (or pref setting of choice)' and then use it anywhere in any way you want. Anyway, lots of other players support AAC.

"despite paying hundreds of dollars for high-end audio systems" - Elliott

Heh, I believe "hundreds of dollars" and "high-end audio systems" are mutually exclusive. Some audio nuts spend "hundreds of dollars" (sometimes even thousands) on a cable. But I digress...

This is only a small step in the right direction. iTunes is still overpriced as compared to sites that charge based on the filesize, sites that allow different formats (mp3, ogg, mpc, wma, flac) and end up being only a couple dollars per album for avg. bitrates. It is still forcing it's format. Unfortunately, the average user does not realize this, but I guess ignorance is bliss.

The only tracks I get off of iTunes are the free ones. I still just rip my CDs to Apple Lossless.

no, because I systematically turned it to mp3 well before

I'll pay extra for my new music, but the old stuff will stay put. I've already made my collection DRM free buy using the rip/burn method and despite paying hundreds of dollars for high-end audio systems, I'll admit that I only do it to impress friends because my ears can't tell the difference.

If there's an option to only upgrade some of my tracks, then I will. I have a lot of music that I don't really care about any more, so it'll depend which tracks turn out to be from EMI.