I must say I was afraid of this happening. I've been following the news of Apple's discussions with the record labels and hoping that someday they'd go DRM-free, but was hoping that it would be one label at a time like dominoes. This would make it somewhat more palatable in terms of rationalizing the upgrade if it was in parts.
When you see it all in one lump, it's somewhat shocking. (And that's knowing that the entire library hasn't been updated yet, it will only go higher.) I am glad that about six months ago I stopped buying any DRM songs from iTunes and either 1.) bought the alternative from Amazon 2.) found it on a physical CD I was willing to buy or 3.) left it in the shopping cart.
I will probably upgrade but I do want to see what others experience is first. I know that when there was a relatively large influx of Itunes Plus songs which I could upgrade before this, I had over 100 songs to upgrade and had problems downloading them.
I think there was a conflict in the software which was preventing me from proceeding due to the number of songs. Only after going back and forth with a customer service rep over a few days time was it resolved (and only by them manually putting about 20-25 songs into my download que and having me download the batch before adding another batch, which was a time-consuming process on both ends). I'm hoping I don't run into a similar issue if I end up upgrading the rest of my DRM-ed songs.
When you see it all in one lump, it's somewhat shocking. (And that's knowing that the entire library hasn't been updated yet, it will only go higher.) I am glad that about six months ago I stopped buying any DRM songs from iTunes and either 1.) bought the alternative from Amazon 2.) found it on a physical CD I was willing to buy or 3.) left it in the shopping cart.
I will probably upgrade but I do want to see what others experience is first. I know that when there was a relatively large influx of Itunes Plus songs which I could upgrade before this, I had over 100 songs to upgrade and had problems downloading them.
I think there was a conflict in the software which was preventing me from proceeding due to the number of songs. Only after going back and forth with a customer service rep over a few days time was it resolved (and only by them manually putting about 20-25 songs into my download que and having me download the batch before adding another batch, which was a time-consuming process on both ends). I'm hoping I don't run into a similar issue if I end up upgrading the rest of my DRM-ed songs.