Have you been tempted to upgrade your music collection ever since Apple made the announcement that it's doing away with DRM restrictions for iTunes songs and giving you the option to convert your old tracks to the new DRM-free format? After doing that, you'd be able to play them on any AAC-supporting media player, no longer limited to Apple's offerings. Unfortunately, Apple's charging you for the privilege, effectively making you pay twice for the same songs.

If you thought about still giving it a go, you might have noticed that iTunes limited you to an all-or-nothing upgrade: you could remove the DRM from all of your songs, or keep the bunch as-is. That might be fine if you're dead-set on future-proofing your music collection, or if you only have a few albums' worth of songs built up, but at thirty cents a track, that could get very expensive, very quickly for large collections.

Now Apple's modified its policies, finally letting you pick and choose which tracks you want to strip the DRM from. This is great if you do most of your listening at your computer or on an Apple device, but also have another media player where you'd like access to some, but maybe not all of your tracks. And don't forget, future tracks you buy off iTunes will be DRM-free by default, so the more you build your collection, the more accessible music you'll have.

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