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iTunes DRM-free upgrade is all or nothing
DV Hardware — ... Last week Apple announced iTunes will go DRM-free but if you want to upgrade your old iTunes collection it may cost you quite a lot of money if you have lots of songs. Gizmodo complains iTunes doesn't enable you to choose which songs, music videos or albums you want to upgrade to DRM-free formats - it's all or nothing and it will cost you 30 cent per song, 60 cent per video and 30 percent of the album price. ...

Thursday Shortbread
The Tech Report: News — ... Gizmodo reports iTunes wants $250 to upgrade my music collection (or the deal's off) Ars Technica reports 4G war, conflicts of interest loom behind ...

iTunes DRM-free upgrades are now available track-by-track
The Tech Report: News — ... —they can now do it track by track. Upgrades still cost 30 cents a track, and as far as we can tell, they still bump songs from 128Kbps to 256Kbps quality. 30 cents a track for a handful of albums shouldn't amount to much, but Apple's previous all-or-nothing policy incurred some hefty charges for some users. One Gizmodo editor said he would have had to cough up a staggering $250 to strip copy protection from his 52-album music library. In case you missed the big news, Apple effectively ...