ITunes Plus Rip Off

Not saying it's Apple's fault...but why would I pay to upgrade my song, when, had I bought it (in one case) 2 weeks later, it would have been iTunes Plus and the same price? This makes no sense to me. I mean, I know the record companies are evil, but c'mon. Am I missing something here...or is this a complete rip off? Either way, I'm not paying over 100 dollars to upgrade my entire purchases at the 128 bit rate. I've been listening to them without any problems since I had them, though I would rather they be at 256. I also remember when iTunes Plus was 1.29 a song or something like that. So, I'm thinking with time, the upgrade will be free...or at least individually selectable. If not...I'm not paying for stuff I already own that's not increased in price.

I am glad I am not the only one who thinks this is a bit unfair. I don't think it is Apple's fault. Like you, I don't think it makes much sense. I have ~1500 iTunes songs. I purchased my first song around day 1 or so when iTunes first opened. Why would I spend $450 to upgrade these songs? I'd like to have the better versions. Absolutely, but $450 is tooo steep. I might pay a flat fee of $25 or $50 to upgrade all the older format songs when they become available. I might even pay $0.03 per song which is $45 in my case, but not $450.00! It makes no sense.

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Itunes gift rip-off

I just bought an album on itunes for my brother in France. But he can not download it as when he tries it says it os only valid in the USA>
I can neither fix this or get my money back. Seems like a rip off.

It's not a rip-off. It says quite clearly in the iTunes Store that gifts are valid only in the country of purchase. You cannot give an iTunes gift to another country. Your best option, and certainly the easiest, is to just redirect the gift to someone you know in the US:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1541
A refund may not be possible since the terms of sale for the iTunes Store state that all sales are final. You can contact the iTunes Store, explain the reason for your request, and ask, though:
http://www.apple.com/support/itunes/contact.html
It's possible they'll make an exception for you.
Good luck.

ITunes code ripped off how do I redeem

I Had gotten an Itunes gift card and when I tried to scratch the code off the whole strip came off how can I redeem my card without this code?

If the code is not readable you cannot redeem it.
You can try contacting iTunes Support: http://apple.com/emea/support/itunes/contact.html.

ITunes a rip off

Today i brought 4 cd's for £20 (2 stones 2 led zep) from HMV,full lp's with plastic case and a booklet,iTunes want £7.99 each no plastic case and no booklet,when i got home i put the cd's onto my ipod and then put the disc's on the shelf for everybody to look at and read,haven't found away to do this with a download yet,i think people who rave about itunes it's a case of emperors new clothes.

Well I did not renew my i tunes match subscription at the first of the year because it is a flawed product. I'm sure Apple had good intentions but they never delivered the product they advertised. I will not bore you with the loss of much irreplaceable music gone from my library, and the money I spent to resolve the isuues I encountered thanks to my Match subscription.
My advice to you is to cancel your subscription to Match ASAP and let Apple know what a crappy product Match is.Good luck getting your money back, also.
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How do i get the rest of my code on my itunes gift card if some got ripped off

how do i get the rest of my code on my itunes gift card if some got ripped off?

iTunes Store: Invalid, Inactive, or Illegible codes http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1292

Why can't I open iTunes or apps on ipad1? And why do apple not support the latest update for ipad1 when it's less than 2 years old. I am sick of huge corporations ripping off joe public!

Why can't I open iTunes or apps on ipad1? And why do apple not support the latest update for ipad1 when it's less than 2 years old. I am sick of huge corporations ripping off joe public!

And the processor limitations.
iPad: RAM - 256MB, Processor - 1 GHz Apple A4
iPad 2: RAM - 512MB, Processor - 1GHz dual-core Apple A5
iPad 3: RAM 1024MB, Processor - 1GHz dual-core Apple A5X
Similarily, the iPad 2 did not get Siri and some other features in iOS 6.
 Cheers, Tom

.turning.off.Itunes.plus.

I just bought two Alan Vega songs and while trying to purchase an other I accedentaly pressed the buy Itunes plus version. Now I can't buy any songs I want in the non Plus format. Is there a way to turn Itunes Plus off?

In case the "Solved" is erroneous or for the sake of anyone else reading, to turn off iTunes Plus, log into your iTunes Store account, click on the "Manage iTunes Plus" button, and uncheck the check box.

$15 out of a $25 itunes gift card? ripped off!

i recently recieved an itunes gift car for $25. when i redeemed it i only got $15 on my itunes account. what the heck?. can someone from the itunes staff please fix this or contact me to work it out? i feel really ripped off. and would like to get my full $25 of itunes cash.

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Went looking for fun movies to download for my holidays. Found Sixteen Candles and others for £3.99, great! Went to download them this morning on wifi and ***! All movies are now £6.99 each. Total RIP OFF for old movies. Why oh why iTunes? So greedy!

Went looking for fun movies to download for my holidays. Found Sixteen Candles and others for £3.99, great! Went to download them this morning on wifi and ***! All movies are now £6.99 each. Total RIP OFF for old movies. Why oh why iTunes? Stop being so greedy and make older movies a more reasonable price. I would buy a lot more, it's just false economy in my book. Don't get me started on the difference in price with the US.
Stop being so greedy iTunes!
Anyone know how I can get cheaper movies?

Apple won't read your post here since this is a user to user forum. Provide feedback:
http://www.apple.com/feedback/ - Apple products feedback links

ITunes Plus ugrade finally working - make sure 3rd party plug ins off

Just read in a pinned post in the other iTunes folder here that you should disable any third party iTunes plug ins before trying to ugrade to iTunes Plus. I have SRS iWow as a plug in. So I disabled it and tried to upgrade again. Bingo. All my tracks downloading now!

First of all, make sure you have not moved the application icon or the application folder from the default install location, and that you have not created subfolders there in a misguided attempt to "organize" things.
Secondly, please tell us what you upgraded from. If you had been running some 3rd party plugins that are not written for Universal Binary, they may not run in a newer OS or a newer machine.
Third, please see the documentation or Adobe Photoshop's Principal Program Manager John Nack's blog for the stuff that
was taken out in CS4:
http://blogs.adobe.com/jnack/2008/10/where_did_extra.html
Filter > Distort > Diffuse Glow is right there where it's always been. If you don't see it, you're either in 16 bits or have a bad install.

ITunes Plus Not Allowing Upgrade

I bought a lot of pre-iTunes Plus tunes in days gone by. To upgrade them to iTunes Plus so as to get the better quality, I have to pay 30 cents on top of the 99 cents I've already paid, even though new customers get the exact same thing for 99 cents total--standard Apple ripoff, but that's not what I'm posting about. The iTunes Store has a list of tunes I've bought that haven't been upgraded to iTunes Plus, which it would be happy to let me upgrade. However, there are a couple of dozen tunes I have in my library that don't show up on that list, even though they are available for sale in the iTunes Store right now. So, now I don't even get to be ripped off! Is there any way to get those tunes, short of going to Amazon and buying them there?

I also had this issue and still have many songs that are in the store as iTunes Plus but don't show up in my upgrade list (which has gone missing since 9.0, but that's another matter). At first customer service was working with me and I was able to get many of the missing songs, but then some directive must come down from Apple that stopped customer service from helping folks out with this issue. I could no longer contact the reps that helped me before and at first when I tried I got a message from someone superior to them saying I should basically wait. Further attempts to contact anyone in customer service about the matter were met with silence. It's been months and I eventually gave up. Good look, but don't expect much help from Apple.

My iTunes got deleted off a (no longer working) computer. Is there a way I can transfer all content from my iPhone onto iTunes on a new computer? I want to update my phone, but do not want to lose any music off it when syncing it.

My iTunes got deleted off a (no longer working) computer. I have lost all music & data that was on this original itunes. Is there a way I can transfer all content from my iPhone (music & photos) onto iTunes on a new computer? I want to update my iphone (3GS), but do not want to lose any music off it when syncing it. Help please!!

By design, the iphone will sync itunes content with one computer at a time. Any attempt to sync such content with a second computer will result in ALL itunes content being first erased from your phone & then replaced with the content from the second computer. This is a design feature and cannot be overridden. Because you are using a new computer, your phone will see this computer as a "new" computer. The itunes content sync is one way: computer to phone. If you have photos that were synced to your phone or music ripped on your own that were not backed up, you will first have to extract them from your phone using third party software, before you do anything else, as Apple makes no provision to do so:
http://www.wideanglesoftware.com/touchcopy/index.php
Once you've done that, do the following in the order specified:
1. Disable auto sync when an iPod/iPhone is connected under iTunes>Preferences(under the edit menu if using Windows)>Devices in itunes.
2. Make sure you have one contact & one event in the supported applications(Address Book & iCal or Outlook, Windows Address Book) on your computer. These entries can be fake, doesn't matter, the important point is that these programs not be empty.
3. Connect your phone, iTunes running, DO NOT SYNC at this point.
4. Store>Authorize this computer.
5. File>Transfer Purchases(To make sure all purchased content on your phone will be in your itunes library).
6. Right click in the device pane & select reset warnings.
7. Right click again and select backup.
8. Right click again & select restore from backup, select the backup you just made. When prompted to create another backup, decline.
9. This MUST be followed by a sync to restore your itunes content, which you select from the various tabs, You'll get a popup regarding your contacts & calendars asking to merge or replace, select merge.
You should be good to go.

I am feeling so ripped off right now. I have wanted a Mac for years and believed the hype about it's stability and I have had more trouble with this Imac 2011 than I have ever had with a pc. It locks up with several software products from APP store.

I am feeling so ripped off right now. I have wanted a Mac for years and believed the hype about it's stability and I have had more trouble with this Imac 2011 than I have ever had with a pc. It locks up with several software products from APP store. I have already had to have a technician to look at it and really couldn't figure out what the deal was. I was told that the APP store software should give me no problems but the truth is that it locks up on the software. This machine is only 4 weeks old and I am using 37 g on a 1 T hard drive. There is no reason for it to be locking up. Also, when I try to use the help program, it always tells me that I am not connected to the internet even though I have used both the mail program and the browser with no problem just before that. I successfully used the help program on my pc lots of times. I did not need a $2000. plus machine to just get email. I just wanted to unload on somebody that might understand my pain and after checking out this site...I think there is a few of you out there.

I was told that the APP store software should give me no problems but the truth is that it locks up on the software.
The apps downloaded from the Mac App Store are written by third party developers, not Apple. If you have problems with those apps you need to visit the support area for their websites. Launch the App Store, locate the app name. You should see a support link.
when I try to use the help program, it always tells me that I am not connected to the internet even though I have used both the mail program and the browser with no problem just before that
Go to ~/Library/Preferences. Move the com.apple.helpviewer.plist file from the Preferences folder to the Trash. Restart your Mac, try the Help menu.
If you need help finding that file, hold down the Finder icon in the Dock then click: New Finder Window. From the menu bar top of your screen click: Go > Go to Folder. Type this in exactly as you see it here: ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.helpviewer.plist That will take you right to that file.
(.plist) files stores information about a particular app or in this case, the Help viewer. Often times deleting the .plist file resolves the issue.
It's fine to "unload"... we understand that you expect your iMac to be stable but there are times when things go awry. That's why we have these forums so that you can you get help.
You may want to read up on how to repair the disk if necessary or reintsall Lion > OS X Lion: About Lion Recovery
Apple - Find Out How - Mac Basics
How to "switch" from PC to Mac > Apple - Support - Switch 101
I'm sorry you feel, "ripped off", but you are using the world's most advanced operating system and it may take some time to adjust to a new OS. http://developer.apple.com/technologies/mac/

I selected "ACC Encoder-iTunes Plus" for import settings to import cd's. I assumed music purchased from the iTunes Store was mp3 format.Which is it?

I selected "AAC-iTunes Plus" as my import settings when importing CD's to my iTunes library. When I reviewed "get info" on purchased songs from iTunes, it says "Kind: Purchased AAC audio file". All of the purchased songs in my library say this. I assumed all purchased songs were "automatically" imported in mp3 format. Do the import settings I chose also apply to purchased music? Also, what can I do to have my library songs changed to mp3 format?

All songs sold in the iTunes Store are AAC/256.
The import setting affects ripping and conversion. It has nothing to do with purchases from the iTunes Store.
If you need MP3s, you can convert your AACs by using this procedure: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1550 But it would be easier to buy MP3s in the first place, for example from Amazon MP3.
MP3s can be used in iTunes or almost any other player, program or device.

Is There a Tag to Identify iTunes Plus Tracks?

Does anyone know of a tag that can identify iTunes Plus tracks in your library? I'd like to do a backup of them but can't readily identify them. I rip my CDs at 256K so by bit rate is not an option with my rather large library. The DRM tracks are fairly easy in that they are 128K but I can't nail down the iTunes Plus tracks. Thank you if you have any advise.

Can I press my great luck with this thread and ask if there is a way to create a smart playlist with the iTunes DRM (128K Bit Rate) tracks? Your Kind=Purchased worked brilliantly for the iTunes Plus tracks. I'd love to be able to replicate it for a DRM version of my iTunes tracks. Although I'm still hopeful that I'll be able to upgrade these all to the iTunes Plus files in the future. Thanks for any assistance that you can offer.

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