iTunes Plus Challenge

Wow. After all that fuss, it turns out that I don't own a single upgradable EMI track. My cost for bringing my library out of the dark ages and into the brave new DRM-free world? Nothing. At least that's nothing until I go out and buy a $1.29 track later this morning so I can play with the data file and see whether it will play back on my, you know, Zune. Curiously enough I do own EMI plus-worthy tracks (for example, David Bowie's "Life on Mars") but I have not been offered an option to upgrade them.

So here's the challenge: Who of you out there in reader land has the biggest collection of upgradable tracks and how much is iTunes asking you to fork over to pay for those upgrades? Let us know in the comments. The winner gets bragging rights ands we will issue him or her a virtual TUAW huzzah (try saying that three times fast.)

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Wow. After all that fuss, it turns out that I don't own a single upgradable EMI track. My cost for bringing my library out of the dark ages...

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kopernikuz

I had over 500 and $97.10 worth... but it's taking forever... at least half of them are timing out, I started downloading yesterday and am still at 309 left.

June 01 2007 at 5:53 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

simonc1952

This iTunes Plus download is taking an absolute age... don't want to be ungrateful but is it likely to take days to download these high-bandwidth tracks?

June 01 2007 at 2:08 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

dean

I have 23 songs that have timed out, I keep going back and one day later I still cant get them to download.

May 31 2007 at 10:52 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

N9wme6

12848 songs... (my entire library is 104587 songs)
I think I wouldn't upgrade it...

May 31 2007 at 9:51 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Targuman

I had $14.70 and 62 songs, but I don't think the entire catalog is available yet. Another thing, however, is that those songs that are available for Plus (the 62 mentioned above) are now no longer being transferred to my iPod! What is up? Any ideas?

May 31 2007 at 7:39 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

LJD

Â£2.60, 13 songs.

I'm having the same 'Smashing Pumpkins' problem... The greates hits album is up DRM-free in iT+, but doesn't show up in the upgrade list... Anyone fancy compiling a list of albums that aren't cooperating?

May 31 2007 at 7:21 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

xplora

Something nobody has noticed...

Paul McCartney's music is now available for download, and his collection is EMI based and therefore iTunes Plus DRM free... sounds good when you think about when The Beatles might appear...

Another interesting tidbit... iTunes Plus album prices haven't changed

May 31 2007 at 3:19 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Hawkeye

Possible iTunes Plus bug found. I have noticed that only some of the EMI songs that I have purchased are allowing me to upgrade them. I have tied this issue back to an account name change. The songs that I purchased with my old account name will not show up for upgrade but all of the songs purchased with the new account name work fine. I switched back to the original account name but that did not work. Any ideas? Is Apple aware of this issue and are they working on a solution?

May 30 2007 at 11:11 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Julie Gomoll

14 songs + 8 albums, 104 songs total (out of 1731 albums/~40K songs) all legal. Total: $29.10.

May 30 2007 at 9:49 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

FRANKL

My price was between $9 and $10 - OMD, Sinead O'connor, and Smashing Pumpkins. I purchased three McCartney albums, and they are DRAGGING in the download. My upgrades went by with no problem.

If McCartney solo is dragging so bad, just imaging when (and yes, I said "when") the Beatles catalogue shows up. I will gladly put up with THAT wait.

May 30 2007 at 9:36 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply