Find Your EMI iTunes

With Apple and EMI planning to offer 30-cent song upgrades to a higher bitrate without DRM next month, TUAW has documented two ways to identify the applicable tracks in your Mac iTunes library…

First up is the geeky command line method:

mdfind -onlyin ~/Music/iTunes/iTunes Music “kMDItemCopyright == ‘*Emi*’ kMDItemCodecs == ‘*protected*’ “

Next we have the OS X search method:

In Finder, select File -> Find (Command-F). Select “Other…” from the search attribute pop-up and when the “Select a search attribute” dialog opens, choose Copyright (“Copyright information about this item”) from the list. Search for Copyright Contains EMI

And don’t forget EMI has a variety of sub-labels which may be upgradeable as well… Jorge has posted a text file and command line sequence to identify those additional songs. For just the EMI label, looks like I’ll be in the hole for $12.60.