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Apple, EMI to hold special event in UK on Monday

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Posted 02 April 2007 - 07:33 AM

Press release
EMI Music launches DRM-free superior sound quality downloads across its entire digital repertoire
Apple's iTunes store to be the first online music store to sell EMI's new downloads

London, 2 April 2007 -- EMI Music today announced that it is launching new premium downloads for retail on a global basis, making all of its digital repertoire available at a much higher sound quality than existing downloads and free of digital rights management (DRM) restrictions.

The new higher quality DRM-free music will complement EMI's existing range of standard DRM-protected downloads already available. From today, EMI's retailers will be offered downloads of tracks and albums in the DRM-free audio format of their choice in a variety of bit rates up to CD quality. EMI is releasing the premium downloads in response to consumer demand for high fidelity digital music for use on home music systems, mobile phones and digital music players. EMI's new DRM-free products will enable full interoperability of digital music across all devices and platforms.
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Posted 02 April 2007 - 08:23 AM

Looks like I'll be buying albums whenever possible. I'll upgrade an existing song or two for evaluation purposes. Kinda curious how much better the new EMI tracks will be.
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Posted 02 April 2007 - 08:29 AM

Apple Press Release
Apple Unveils Higher Quality DRM-Free Music on the iTunes Store
DRM-Free Songs from EMI Available on iTunes for $1.29 in May
CUPERTINO, CaliforniaApril 2, 2007Apple today announced that EMI Musics entire digital catalog of music will be available for purchase DRM-free (without digital rights management) from the iTunes Store (www.itunes.com) worldwide 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, for just $1.29 per song. In addition, iTunes customers will be able to easily upgrade their entire library of all previously purchased EMI content to the higher quality DRM-free versions for just 30 cents a song. iTunes will continue to offer its entire catalog, currently over five million songs, in the same versions as today128 kbps AAC encoding with DRMat the same price of 99 cents per song, alongside DRM-free higher quality versions when available.
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Posted 02 April 2007 - 09:46 AM

Please don't cut-and-paste entire press releases.

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Posted 02 April 2007 - 11:38 AM

My apologies
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Posted 02 April 2007 - 04:45 PM

Sorry about that. I thought it was helpful and little funny at the time. Three hours of sleep will do that to ya!
Hey, this is the first time I've ever been edited!
I don't know if I should be excited or ashamed. /forums/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/confused.gif /forums/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif
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