Apple and EMI remove DRM from EMI's library.

gregh — Mon, 02 Apr 2007 06:27:47 -0500

I couldn't sleep, so here I sit listening to the EMI/Apple press conference:

Come May, the entire EMI library will be available on the iTunes Music Store, as ~~MP3s~~unencumbered AACs, for $1.29 each.
iTunes customers will be able to upgrade their current EMI iTunes purchases to the premium MP3s for $0.30 per item.
Albums in ~~MP3~~AAC will be sold at the current prices.
Apple estimates that over half of the DRM-protected tracks on the iTMS will be available unencumbered by the end of the year.
To accommodate the multiple pricing levels, users will set a preference as to what quality the user wants.
Existing iTMS library, with DRM-encumbered songs, will remain.

I ~~must've missed~~did miss the bitrate of the new encoding. TechCrunch says 256k.

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