Upgrade ⇥

Ben Brooks on an iTunes Plus-esque upgrade fee for iCloud:

I am guessing you will have to pay a one-time cloud upgrade fee on a song by song basis. Perhaps $0.30 a song, maybe less. Once you do that, those songs are available in the cloud.

This would make sense, but it’s quickly going to be expensive. If 10% of the hypothetical 1000-song library is CD-ripped, that’s $30. That’s only 100 songs, or about 8 CDs (using top-secret bullshit estimation). I have a lot more than 8 CDs-worth not purchased through iTunes.