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In a brazen u-turn, Apple's iTunes Store has changed its mind over upgrades to the DRM-free iTunes Plus format and will now let customers choose the songs and albums they want in the higher bit rate. Yup, that's right — Apple now grants users the gift of choice!

Remarkable, really. After a few weeks of demanding shoppers upgrade everything they've ever purchased, or nothing at all — spending wads of cash in the process — Apple will now allow shoppers to upgrade the 100 tracks they want, leaving the other thousand on Apple's servers.

This should've been a feature enabled the instant iTunes went DRM-free. But later is better than never, we suppose, and now you don't have to pay 50 cents for songs that you bought on CD and ripped into Apple Lossless anyway.

There's another twist to this tale, however. We've had a few CNET users complain that they've spent hundreds of dollars on iTunes downloads, and were faced with a whopping bill to upgrade the whole lot, when they only wanted to upgrade a selection of their songs. Can these users get a refund for the songs they didn't want to upgrade? We've contacted Apple for a comment. A spokesperson couldn't immediately respond, but we'll update this story when they do.