iTunes Plus - What an Improvement

Since there are only song by EMI in iTunes Plus, I haven't happened to hit a song that is iTunes Plus in the last few weeks when I've been shopping around.

Well, spending a gift certificate from a friend for my Birthday, I got "Harder Better Faster Stronger" by Daft Punk - and what a difference. The bass is fuller, the high end is much more detailed... I wish all iTunes songs were of this level. Not that iTunes is bad, but this is really nice.

Of course, if you're not prepared to want to rebuy your EMI songs with iTunes Plus (you can for only the difference - 30 cents per song) you may not want to start to buy this option - to me at least, everything else now sounds just a little hollow unless I pulled it from a CD I bought.

I hope that eventually, all the rest of he labels do what EMI did and go DRM-free (no copy protection - you own the song, completely) and double the quality. It is a very audible difference, although the files are a bit larger in size.