Apple today announced that EMI Music’s entire digital catalog of music will be available for purchase DRM-free (without digital rights management) from the iTunes Store worldwide in May. DRM-free tracks from EMI will be offered at higher quality 256kbps AAC encoding, resulting in audio quality indistinguishable from the original recording, for $1.29 per song. In addition, iTunes customers will be able to upgrade their entire library of all previously purchased EMI content to the higher quality DRM-free versions for $0.30 a song. iTunes will continue to offer its entire catalog, currently over five million songs, in the same versions as today - 128kbps AAC encoding with DRM - at the same price of $0.99 per song, alongside DRM-free higher quality versions when available.
May 31st, 2007 at 3:54 pm
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