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<AUTHOR>Doug Anger</AUTHOR>
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There's one more thing. That is the line Apple CEO Steve Jobs is famous for, a line he often uses before introducing products that will be wildly popular, products like the iPod. In the last month, Apple has announced several more things with regard to iTunes.

Bye bye, DRM

A Tuesday press release from Apple said that the iTunes store will be offering higher quality versions of many songs free from copy-protection also known as Digital Rights Management. Currently, music purchased from the iTunes store is protected by DRM and cannot be transferred to MP3 players other than the iPod or software other than iTunes. Purchasers of this DRM-free music could play it on any relatively new music player or computer software. In addition, the new versions will be encoded at twice the bitrate of current songs (256 kbps instead of 128), meaning music will be higher quality.



The new songs will cost $1.39 each instead of the current 99. Users of the iTunes store will be able to choose which version they want to buy. It will also be possible to upgrade songs to the new format by paying the 30 difference. Complete albums will still cost $9.99.



Apple says that by next year, over half of the songs in the iTunes Music Store should be available in the new high-quality format.

Complete My Album

Apple is also offering discounts on albums that users have purchased part of. If you've purchased one or more songs from an album, you have six months to purchase the rest of the album and with discount equal to the price of what you've already bought. In other words, you have six months to decide you want the whole album without paying any more that you would have if you would have bought it to begin with.

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