iTunes Plus upgrade available on a per track basis

Apple has apparently bowed to pressure because the iTunes Store is now allowing upgrades to iTunes Plus on a per track basis. Back when Apple first dropped DRM on some of their music they started allowing customers to upgrade their previously purchased tracks to the higher bit-rate and DRM-free iTunes Plus versions. Unfortunately, until recently Apple required you to purchase the upgrades for all of your qualifying music all at once, whether your wanted them all or not.

Now it seems you can upgrade your previously purchased music to the iTunes Plus versions for 30 cents per track. The albums in my account seem to cost between $3 and $4 to upgrade. You can find all your qualifying music on the iTunes Store by following this link (iTunes link) or from the iTunes Store home page.

It's nice to see that Apple has seen the light on this. Note that Macworld is reporting some kind of glitch with using the shopping cart and are saying you need to turn on the buy with 1-click option in the iTunes Store preferences to get the correct upgrade price (and not be charged the full album price again).

[via Macworld]

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tifosiotaku

If I upgrade, will I have to delete DRM-infected songs manually, or does the iTunes application do that for me?

January 29 2009 at 11:32 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Ray

This report is incorrect. You could always select which tracks to upgrade. You never had to upgrade them all.

Based on the previous commenters, this seems to have been a common misconception, so I don't know what to say, maybe there was some confusion in the user interface that if you made the wrong choices go you to some destination where you could only upgrade your entire library, but since the inception of iTunes Plus, I was able to select only a few of the tracks that I owned.

January 29 2009 at 12:05 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

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cromer

I want my money back for all those "free" weekly tracks I just spent 30 cents each on. I'm guessing I had about 50 of them. So 50 X .30 = $15 that I spent on free songs because couldn't upgrade songs separately. How bout a gift card Apple?

January 29 2009 at 11:56 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

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VanillaSpice

Did your free songs of the week all appear in your upgrade list? None of the FSotW appeared in my upgrade list, and the T and C said they were not able to be updated.

January 29 2009 at 10:14 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

cromer

You know, I think I might have jumped the gun on the "free" songs thing. I looked, and the majority of the songs that I haven't been able to update yet are actually those free songs. I guess I should have done more research before I went off the deep end. ;-) Can't say for sure that none of the free songs have been updated though. I have too many songs.

January 30 2009 at 1:38 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

dniq

No, you still have to upgrade the entire library, or a couple of tracks, apparently randomly selected. I have 708 tracks to upgrade, but iTunes only allows me 135 of them to be upgraded on a per-track basis. It does show price of upgrade for albums, but it will not allow you do add just one album to upgrade - you still have to either purchase it at a full price, or upgrade them all at once. The price, apparently, is just to show you how it's been calculated (or the feature is broken - either way).

As it stands now, if you want to upgrade only what you want - you can't (with the exception that if what you want managed to get into the random list of tracks they allow you to upgrade).

January 29 2009 at 11:48 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

adam

I did it, and it charged me the full price of the cd's i wanted to upgrade. So as of now I bought the same CD twice for 9.99. I contacted Apple, I am awaiting them to fix it. They usually are good with this kind of stuff.

January 29 2009 at 11:31 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

colouroflight

If you got your music elsewhere you wouldn't have to disinfect the DRM in the first place.

January 29 2009 at 11:20 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Jeff

My email must have worked.

You're welcome.

January 29 2009 at 10:09 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Brian Allen

I have been doing this for some time now. I could do individual albums or song purchased separately.

January 29 2009 at 8:41 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Ethan

Great for anyone who occasionally buys terrible music, myself very included.