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Itunes or Cds, the smartest purchase?

Hi there, i was buying lots of cps before from amazon, lately i have been getting them from iTunes on apple lossless format, cause aim on graduate school and certainly don't want cds on the move, in a foreign country, either mp3 or compress formats either....
the dilemma appeared when i start questioning myself if what aim doing is the smartest thing to do, i also record some Cds after, on good music Cd no data.
they sound great to my ears.
Advice about this before i buy to many, back home i have several hundreds on storage.
thanks you always.
128x128junglern
spiritualized
138 posts
 
I hate to break it to you, but you can't buy Apple Lossless content from the iTunes store yet. You're buying AAC files at 256 kbps, which are far from lossless. Hotmailjbc offers some good advice.
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junglern OP
50 posts
 
How come when you choose download formatt you can choose wav, apple lossless etc.
I am confused now.
Tx
kbarkamian
647 posts
 
I think you're confusing import format on iTunes with download format. Unless iTunes recently added uncompressed music, I'd stick to buying and ripping CDs. I think Rhino Records has uncompressed downloadable music on their site, but the catalog's not anywhere near iTunes'.

If iTunes gave the uncompressed option, I'm sure all the forums would be buzzing about it. I'd love to buy individual uncompressed tracks from them from albums that I didn't care for the entire album. Maybe some day.
elevick
2,638 posts
 
I stick to CD's and putting them all on a big hard drive. Big brother can't control what I chose to do with my music after that, no licensing issues. I do end up putting my music on various pc's at home and work as well as in the car...
elevick
2,638 posts
 
almost forgot: I also like cd's because my player in my stereo with DAC is far superior quality than that I'll get from an ipod and my pc is not connected to the system.
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