{"id":3562,"date":"2011-07-04T12:46:22","date_gmt":"2011-07-04T17:46:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=3562"},"modified":"2011-07-04T12:46:24","modified_gmt":"2011-07-04T17:46:24","slug":"itunes-match-makes-unlocked-copies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2011\/07\/04\/itunes-match-makes-unlocked-copies\/","title":{"rendered":"iTunes Match Makes Unlocked Copies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/tidbits.com\/article\/12291\">Glenn Fleishman<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/tidbits.com\/article\/12291\"><p>You&rsquo;ll be able to upgrade all your ripped files that aren&rsquo;t up to snuff &mdash; avoiding replacing, say, your lossless FLAC versions &mdash; with the best Apple and the labels have to offer, for what is essentially a one-time $25 fee. This is the right way to do it, and it&rsquo;s an awfully nice gift for those of us, like yours truly, who ripped their CDs at lower quality many years ago.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>It sure makes me happy to have bought CDs, rather than paying extra for DRM-encumbered 128-Kbps iTunes music, then 30 cents more per track to <a href=\"http:\/\/support.apple.com\/kb\/ht1711\">upgrade them to iTunes Plus<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Glenn Fleishman: You&rsquo;ll be able to upgrade all your ripped files that aren&rsquo;t up to snuff &mdash; avoiding replacing, say, your lossless FLAC versions &mdash; with the best Apple and the labels have to offer, for what is essentially a one-time $25 fee. This is the right way to do it, and it&rsquo;s an awfully [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3562","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3562"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3562\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3563,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3562\/revisions\/3563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}