Sony rolling out iTunes plus

Cleve Nettles

November 08, 2008

iPhone - iPod

Let's just say we have a hunch on this one. Sony iTunes Plus high quality AAC files coming to the iTunes store in the next few weeks/months..same deal, 256kbit quality, no DRM.

Now when are they going to drop the "BMG"? We have no idea.

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Comments (13)

Kevin (not verified) | November 08, 2008 - 9:51pm

I don't know what "..same deal, $1.29, no DRM.." means, the iTunes Plus songs have been $0.99 for quite some time now...

9to5Mac Noob (not verified) | November 08, 2008 - 11:32pm

when will they rename their company?

Bertelsmann sold their share...

9to5Mac Noobiii (not verified) | November 09, 2008 - 1:46am

No DRM means, that your e-mail-Adress is in the music-file. This is worse than DRM, e.g. you are loosing your "aac-player" and someone is putting your music-files in a filesharing-tool.

9to5Mac Noob (not verified) | November 09, 2008 - 11:02am

If you convert your files to *.mp3, conversion drops your e-mail address from the id-tags, so you are off the hook.

Tice (not verified) | November 10, 2008 - 3:26am

... to listen to my freshly bought music in the car - which isn't working with DRM.

autigers1970 (not verified) | November 10, 2008 - 12:10pm

Meh. It's rather easily removed. And if you aren't illegally sharing music with the world, you have nothing to be concerned about even if you left the email addy in there. No way on earth that's worse than DRM.

9to5Mac Noob (not verified) | November 09, 2008 - 1:55am

Great to hear this, but I'm guessing that if they're iTunes Plus it'll be only $0.99, seeing that hasn't been $1.29 since it first came out.

apenaroks (not verified) | November 09, 2008 - 11:22am

I dont see anything good coming from this.

9to5Mac Noob | November 09, 2008 - 12:45pm

Higher Quality tracks with no drm, sounds good to me.

Why would you worry about your email address being in the music track, unless you were gonna share the file!

dccrowley (not verified) | November 09, 2008 - 9:28pm

Story dated: CUPERTINO, California—May 30, 2007

So what exactly are we on to then?

9to5Mac Noob (not verified) | November 10, 2008 - 9:04pm

That story was the original announcement of iTunes Plus. Are you that desperate to criticize?