Say what? Added MP3 conversion recently? Uh, no, dhs, iTunes could create mp3 tracks when it was first released in 2001, seventeen years ago. Just more of your total mis-Information about Apple. What you could NOT legally do in iTunes was save a track in a lossless file system until Steve Jobs forced the music industry to allow it in 2003 or 2004.
SHEESH!
MP3?
Is that even still a thing?
Oh no it couldn’t. Talk about misinformation and not knowing your own company’s software.
Unless you are referring to the ridiculous process of burning the song to a cd and then extracting it as an MP3.
Looks around 2015, the MP3 conversion feature was added. See other conversation. BTW, thank you Apple for doing this.
All songs purchased from Apple had DRM enabled which locked them down. Plus, the file was in an Apple proprietary format that was only compatible on Apple devices. Convenient for Apple, no doubt.
So... if you knew your history, you would know that that the DRM lock was added as a way to appease the media companies. The media companies were hyper paranoid after Napster. You remember Napster, correct? And the preferred format for song distribution under Napster was MP3. By adding a DRM, it prevented mass copying and distribution. It might have even made the file traceable to the origin.