iPod users will now have their fill of more music from iTunes because of the lowered prices of the songs Apple sells online. I’m sure that there are still a lot of iPod enthusiasts out there who are having hesitations in availing the songs sold without copy protection because of its price of $1.29. But with its price going down to 99 cents, well it’s already a bargain! So what prompted Apple to make this kind of move? Well, no other reason than the threat of the competition like Amazon. Since opening its music Store in September Amazon has sold songs with price ranging from 89 to 99 cents.

The music that Apple offers is commonly made up of artist from EMI. They have a service called iTunes Plus that contains 150, 000 songs. There has been an agreement between Apple and EMI that they will strive to deliver quality songs without copy protection.

Aside from the more affordable price the songs without copy protection can now also be downloaded at 256kbps AAC, a definite improvement from the previous 128kbps AAC.