The new pricing system will have three tiers: Songs will cost 69 cents, 99 cents, or $1.29. The other bit of news is a bit more troubling: Starting in April, iTunes will drop their blanket policy of charging 99 cents for any and all songs (or any and all songs under 10 minutes, anyway). Plus you'll be able to put those songs on as many iPods as you want. And you'll be able to upgrade your old music files to iTunes Plus for 30 cents a song or 30% of the album price. But now all the major labels are on board, along with "thousands of independent labels." Bonus: The DRM-free iTunes files will now come with higher-quality 256 kpbs encoding. Late in 2007, Apple started selling DRM-free iTunes Plus tracks, but the only one of the five major labels to go along with the deal was EMI. That means that if you get the sad face on a few iPods, the tracks you downloaded from iTunes will stop playing on your new iPods after a little while, which is kind of a pain in the ass. Right now, most of the music for sale on iTunes can only be played on five devices. The big news is Apple will now be selling music free of digital rights management. As reported on CNET and confirmed on MediaMemo, Apple announced some changes to the iTunes Music Store today at its MacWorld Conference and Expo in San Francisco.
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