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Originally Posted by JSWolf
Once you burn these tunes to CD, you do not have a standard CD. You have one with a bunch of bits MISSING! AAC and Mp3 toss out bits from the audio. There is no way you can ever get them back. I won't ever pay for music where the company selling it decides to cheat me of the full set of bits that is on the CD. Then ripping this abomination CD and converting it to Apple Lossless is then another silly idea because it's not lossless. No music that isn't truly lossless should be converted to any lossless format.
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course you're missing bits that would have been on a CD original. What you have is
the best you can get from the lossy version you bought from the iTunes store. The only reason to then rip to Lossless is so that you don't lose
still more of the sound you thought you were paying for.
The main reason I don't own many iTunes-purchased tracks is that I care too much about how the music sounds. And given how much I hate DRM, it's really saying something that DRM is the #2 reason I don't have more iTunes-store-bought tracks rather than the #1 reason. I mostly listen to classical and jazz. Most folks would consider me a pretty serious audiophile, although the true 'golden-ears' audiophiles would (and do!) sneer at my current system.
The advice I gave was for folks who weren't bothered by the lower fidelity they got when they purchased a track from iTunes. As I said, it's a way to avoid losing still more quality.
Xenophon