What is iTunes Plus, and will my music sell as iTunes Plus?
In the middle of 2007, iTunes launched a new initiative, “iTunes Plus.” Music would now be sold in iTunes in two different ways: iTunes “regular” (it has no official name) • Available to all • Music encoded at 128 kbps .AAC files (to learn more, click here) • Music protected with Digital Rights Management (DRM) • Music is NOT available for sale as an iTunes Ring Tone for iPhones iTunes Plus • Available to all • Music encoded at 256 kbps .AAC files (to learn more, click here) • Music NOT protected with Digital Rights Management (DRM) • Music is available for sale as an iTunes Ring Tone for iPhones Prior to the middle of 2007, all music for sale in iTunes was available only as iTunes “regular.” IMPORTANT: If you had your music delivered by Deal With Music into iTunes prior to the first half of 2007, your music was likely for sale as iTunes “regular” through October 2007, and may still be available only as iTunes “regular,” or it may have been converted automatically into iTunes Plus (see
