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Poll Results: Updating your iTunes Music



The results are in! When Apple announced that users will be able to upgrade some of their music to higher bitrate, DRM-free files for $0.30 each, we asked, will you be making the upgrade? Sixty four percent of the 3,951 readers who responded said, "Yes," and the remaining thirty six percent - 1,408 readers - said, "No."

A number of you commented that you would have selected "Some" if it had been an option, so take that into consideration when viewing our highly unscientific results. Personally, I won't be upgrading, as I'm not an audiophile and don't feel restricted by Fairplay. C'est la vie.

The results are in! When Apple announced that users will be able to upgrade some of their music to higher bitrate, DRM-free files for $0.30...
 

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Stef Geiger

Actually, real audiophiles wouldn't use an iPod. Perhaps this is only true of the smaller models, but my nano simply doesn't have the output to drive real headphones or even in-ear monitors.

April 05 2007 at 11:23 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Takumi Murayama

True audiophiles wouldn’t buy anything that’s lossy, like AAC, MP3, etc!

April 04 2007 at 11:15 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Dina

I'm gonna upgrade, but I don't need the faster bit rate.

April 04 2007 at 6:06 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
GR Techa

Does DRM make it so you can't say, upload your purchased iTunes songs to a Mp3 cell phone or Zune? What I'm asking is, will this update allow me to upload my purchased iTunes songs to my cell like standard, unprotected Mp3's? If so, what songs in general will be available for this update? The higher Bit-rate update sounds great, I'm a semi-audiophile...

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April 04 2007 at 4:42 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Tim

For anyone who's thinking this is a ploy to sell bigger-storage iPods, think about how many songs it takes to fill up your 30GB iPod? People are not going to spend $5000 on 256kbps tracks that can fill up their existing iPods soon. By the time 256kbps becomes the norm, storage will be a lot cheaper.

Though this does have a bigger effect on Nano and Shuffle. Some of us already use 192 or 256kbps for ripping CDs so it's not that big of an issue.

April 04 2007 at 4:11 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
david

this is probably a big ploy by apple to get everyone to fill up their ipods and need bigger ones.

April 04 2007 at 2:58 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Dan Gordon

I voted no. I won't upgrade my purchased songs.

But I will buy new songs in 256 kbps quality.


Gordon/ Rio de Janeiro.

April 04 2007 at 2:58 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Fredster


Good point Micah! You just talked me into uprgrading my songs!:) Spot on!

April 04 2007 at 2:36 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Jacques Lema

Not sure whether it would be worth upgrading just for the DRM. I would feel it perfectly legitimate to remove the DRM using some of the available tools.

That said reason number one I never bought music from iTunes is DRM. And I know I am not alone. Everyone in the geek-sphere is aware of the issues with DRM and they are the ones who drive a lot of immitation.

Now that there isn't any DRM I'll feel free to buy some tracks without after thoughts. Great move indeed.

April 04 2007 at 1:56 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
KissTheRing

$1.29 is still cheaper than a full audio ring tone and I'll be able to use unDRMed music for just that purpose and still have a copy on my ipod. Then again if I'm feeling frugal I may just download a $0.99 DRMed version and strip the DRM myself.

April 04 2007 at 1:50 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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