It hasn't even been a month since Apple told the world that DRM on music sold in the iTunes Store would be going the way of the dodo and that all DRM-restricted music that we had purchased up until now could be upgraded to iTunes Plus—for a fee. And not just the $0.30 per track fee it costs to upgrade each song.

As our own Erica Sadun pointed out after the announcement, upgrading your iTunes DRMed tracks was an all or nothing deal; either you upgrade everything in your library, including those embarrassing Katy Perry songs that you bought while on a regrettable cough syrup bender, or none of your music at all.

Erica wasn't the only one who brought up that concern, and thankfully, it seems as if Apple has listened to the feedback. As of today, users can upgrade their songs to iTunes Plus on a song-by-song basis.

When you enter the iTunes Store and click on the iTunes Plus icon, you're no longer restricted to the big, giant "Buy All" button. Now, each track that Apple has identified as protected on your machine has a "Buy" button next to it. You can now upgrade your songs on a per-song or even per-album basis, if that makes things easier for you.



Songs blurred to protect the guilty

Now, this doesn't necessarily mean you should jump the gun if you don't want to upgrade your stuff more than once. Apple said that it plans to convert all 10 million songs on the iTunes Store to DRM-free by April, so that means not everything has been converted yet. If you upgrade now, you may still have to upgrade other songs in the future. Not that it matters anymore since you can do it a la carte, but if you're the lazy type, keep waiting.