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Gold Member Username: John_aLondonU.K. Post Number: 4655 Registered: Dec-03 | Apple to Offer Higher Quality DRM-Free Music on iTunes Apple has announced that EMI Music's entire digital catalogue of music will be available for purchase DRM-free (without digital rights management) from the iTunes Store in May. DRM-free tracks from EMI will be offered at higher quality 256 kbps AAC encoding, resulting in audio quality indistinguishable from the original recording. [Apr 2] This narrows the gap between HiFi and iPod. 245 kbps is very close to CD-quality. The entire EMI Music Catalogue includes, for example, The Beatles. I think this announcement heralds a change in the way in which many people acquire and listen to recorded music. |
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Gold Member Username: IlluminatorUSA Post Number: 4968 Registered: Apr-05 | It's wonderful to hear they're taking off the ridiculous DRM. Interesting that they've finally decided to support a new format as well. |