Yesterday’s announcement that iTunes is going DRM-free (80% yesterday, the rest by the end of March 2009) is great news for DJ-1800 users. It means that all music purchased from iTunes, from now on, will benefit from automatic StartPoint, BPM and AutoGain calculation, as well as much-improved EQ options, when loaded into DJ-1800. In addition, you can upgrade your existing DRM-protected tracks to the new, higher-quality DRM-free format. Unfortunately, upgrading your existing tracks isn’t free - it costs 30 cents per song, or 30 percent of the album price - but it does mean that your existing tracks will be even more useful in DJ-1800.

In addition, this move means that we can add new features to future versions of DJ-1800 which simply wouldn’t be possible for DRM-protected files. So, it’s good news all round!

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