Apple Releases iTunes 7.2, Launches iTunes Plus (DRM Free)

[pmcelhaney]

How I upgraded music to iTunes Plus

1. On the iTunes Store home page, click "Complete My Album." (It's in the box in the top right corner.)

2. On my list of Albums, I saw "iTunes Plus" under the album Twenty Three by Tristan Prettyman. I clicked "Complete My Album" there.

3. On the "Complete My Album" page for the Tristan Prettyman album, there's a link, "Upgrade to iTunes Plus before completing this Album." I clicked that link.

Then I got the page to upgrade all of my music at once. (See my earlier post.)

Now when I retrace my steps I'm taken to a page titled "Now in iTunes Plus" that features albums available in the iTunes Plus 256kb DRM-free format. It also tells me there's nothing currently in my library is up to date. There's nothing that can be upgraded at the moment, but I should check back later.

 

[Fillado]

Edit: Slowness

 

[P-Worm]

It looks like it detected 10 songs for me to upgrade.

P-Worm

 

[eenu]

It looks like it detected 10 songs for me to upgrade.

P-Worm

38 for me and looking at the file sizes i'm gonna need to shift my tunes to my server

 

[onebloodonelife]

Linkage:

http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/iTunesPlusPage

Nice. (from dude over on Digg.com news article comments: http://www.digg.com/apple/Apple_Releases_iTunes_7_2_Launches_iTunes_Plus_DRM_Free_2)

Thanks!

The only songs I have are the R.E.M. songs, 21 for $3.90.

 

[eenu]

one thing i can confirm however is if you have a custom file structure this upgrade doesn't recognice it leaving you with the old file and new one in two different locations!

 

[thestaton]

oh well I wanted to buy something but I couldn't find anything that interested me. glad to see the smashing pumpkins collection is Plus.

 

[gmanrique]

Weren't video upgrades supposed to be free?

Edit: Slowness

 

[Fillado]

You don't even need the file in your library - it gets all the information from your purchase history and not what you have in iTunes

Does anyone know how to upgrade only certain albums/songs and not the entire lot - there's some stuff i've deleted long ago and I don't want it again

 

[brandon6684]

Since I've been subscribing to http://www.emusic.comfor almost a year; I've been waiting for iTunes to release DRM-free and higher bit-rate music.

I love emusic, but more mainstream releases are sure hard to find there. Here's hoping that more of the major record companies begin releasing higher bit-rate and DRM-free music on iTunes.

Same here, until now eMusic has been my only online music store, and it's nice to see iTunes partially useful. The only problem is that I can't just look at the non-DRM stuff. Amazon's store might be interesting if it is only non-DRM.

 

[seppoj]

UK link

I clicked "Upgrade My Library" here:

http://www.apple.com/uk/support/itunes/store/buy_troubleshooting/

It found all the upgradeable tracks automatically

 

[Kelemor]

15 songs
1 album
2.70

and then it got slow!!!

 

[Stella]

I can't find ANY references to DRM free music using iTunes in Canada... is this DRM only music only a states thing ( as per usual )?

There are no references to this mythical iTunes Plus thing in Preferences either...

 

[joelovesapple]

wow i found the upgrade page finally

not that i have much to upgrade lol. see attached (only 102 of my songs eligible )

ps. dont laugh at me for having bought babycakes lol!

It's a no-go for me. I get taken to something completely different, when I used the link someone else posted just below. There isn't a subsection on my iTunes store, I have iTunes plus enabled, I have reloaded iTunes twice, I have clicked on the Store Homepage as well, and I still don't see anything to upgrade my purchases. Looking at your picture, I have a few of the same songs from the store as you do, so I do expect to see this. I thought it was all being done at the same time?

 

[eenu]

It's a no-go for me. I get taken to something completely different, when I used the link someone else posted just below. There isn't a subsection on my iTunes store, I have iTunes plus enabled, I have reloaded iTunes twice, I have clicked on the Store Homepage as well, and I still don't see anything to upgrade my purchases. Looking at your picture, I have a few of the same songs from the store as you do, so I do expect to see this. I thought it was all being done at the same time?

that link worked for me

 

[mrowl]

everytime I try to go to the itunes plus page, keep getting "unknown error"

 

[srobert]

The bulk of my music collection is made up of "Classical" music. Seems like I managed to precisely avoid downloading any track that can be upgraded to iTunes+. Not a single track. Not a small feat.

Maybe I went with the wrong lables? Anybody came accross any iTunes+ classical albums?

 

[yagran]

It's a no-go for me. I get taken to something completely different, when I used the link someone else posted just below. There isn't a subsection on my iTunes store, I have iTunes plus enabled, I have reloaded iTunes twice, I have clicked on the Store Homepage as well, and I still don't see anything to upgrade my purchases. Looking at your picture, I have a few of the same songs from the store as you do, so I do expect to see this. I thought it was all being done at the same time?

uk link http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZPersonalizer.woa/wa/upgradeMyLibraryPage

 

[P-Worm]

If we can try to limit our purchases to DRM free music (that's really hard for me as most of the music I like is not sold my EMI), hopefully we can get the other studios to start dropping DRM too.

P-Worm

 

[Sky Blue]

I have 2 songs to upgrade! Stones and the Beach Boys...

 

[joelovesapple]

Ok guys I got to the page now. I can't seem to upgrade my existing albums though, only everything that I own from EMI, and this will cost me £23.78. I wanted to upgrade an album at a time so I can upgrade the ones I want to upgrade, and not the ones I'm not overly fussed about. So how do I do this please?

Basically, how do I upgrade an album at a time? If I click on the big buy button will it charge me for everything in this upgrade my library list?

 

[avalys]

Ok guys I got to the page now. I can't seem to upgrade my existing albums though, only everything that I own from EMI, and this will cost me £23.78. I wanted to upgrade an album at a time so I can upgrade the ones I want to upgrade, and not the ones I'm not overly fussed about. So how do I do this please?

I think that if you find the album on the store and try to purchase it, it will upgrade it at the higher quality instead of simply repurchasing it.

 

[RazorD]

I can get to the upgrade page, but when i hit 'Buy', i'm told the item doesn't exist anymore

 

[joelovesapple]

Nope. I clicked on Buy, near the album I chose, and it said I had bought it before. I decided not to go head in case I ended up buying the album again.

 

[eenu]

seriously though when will apple realise that not everyone keeps their music in their rigid folder structure!!! I now have to move over 40 tracks by hand to the correct folders and delete the old folders!