Not that you haven’t already heard, but Apple and EMI (that’s a record label in the UK) have announced that they are now going to offer DRM-free music on the iTMS. It will start in May of this year. DRMed music encoded in AAC at 128Kbps will remain US$0.99. The new DRM-less AAC files will be encoded at 256Kbps and will be US$1.29 per track. Jobs said something about purchasing the complete album will get your the DRMed AAC price, but I’m not sure I understood. The only thing you need to know is that these files will work on any DAP capable of AAC playback, not just MP3 players. In other words, you don’t need an iPod to listen. Of course, why would you not want an iPod? Yeah!

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