Old music files with DRM protection

I have some old music files with DRM protection. I don't see an option to pay for an upgrade so I can get DRM-free files. Is there a way to do that? I keep reading posts about iTunes Plus but they're all old posts so I assume that option is gone. Thanks!

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iTunes stopped placing DRM on their purchased music some few months back. Ok, so all the music I've purchased since then is DRM-free. But what about the music I bought before the change? Does it still have DRM protection? and if so, is there a way to remove it?

Driver101801 wrote:
Ok well I just figured out that iTunes will charge you 30% of the original price to remove DRM protection from previously purchased songs. Is there a way to do it cheaper?
No. The only things that you can do with those old DRM-encumbered iTunes files are (1) play them in an Apple device or program, (2) pay to get them upgraded, or (3) use iTunes to burn them to an *audio CD* which can be used like any *audio CD.*

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… is there any reason i shouldn't delete the artwork folder?
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itunes only demarcates songs whose files are missing with an exclamation point after i click on the song. otherwise everything appears as normal. if i quit itunes and reopen it, nothing is marked with the exclamation point until i click on it.
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user3930585 wrote:
I am in an unenviable position, with an unsupported database.
We are running Oracle 9i on Windows XP. We are upgrading soon to Oracle 11g on a newer platform, but need to get our development environment working first.
We lost a system that was running our development database without having a database export. The C drive was placed into a new system as the D drive.
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We cannot simply load the drive as C, since the hardware is different.
What are the steps to point the new database software at the data files on the D drive? Or, how do I copy the old data files into the new Oracle Home and have them recognized properly?
Are you stating that you don't know how to use COPY command?
Can you recreate same directory structure on new C drive as exist on old C drive?
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