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(I originally posted a reply that remarked that we can buy Apple Lossless music from iTMS - however I did a quick check and to my surprise Apple still doesn't o
by DaiPlusPlus 5y ago
(I originally posted a reply that remarked that we can buy Apple Lossless music from iTMS - however I did a quick check and to my surprise Apple still doesn't offer DRM-free lossless content on iTMS: you can only get Apple Lossless by ripping your own CDs. The "Apple Digital Masters" products are not actually "masters": they're still compressed with lossy encoding: https://www.theverge.com/2019/8/7/20758633/apple-digital-masters-itunes-rebrand-music-quality https://www.theverge.com/2019/8/7/20758633/apple-digital-mas... - I guess this explains why services like Tidal and Pono are still around.
Knowing Apple, I think they probably wanted to offer lossless but the record companies are still paranoid about lossless copies... philistines.
- SSLy 5y agoIt's not like Tidal is good either: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pRjsu9-Vznc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pRjsu9-Vznc
- turtlebits 5y agoTidal offers FLAC. I don't completely understand the associated formats via their quality settings, but definitely have downloaded FLAC when caching content to a device.
- SSLy 5y agoAlright, yes, it uses the container, but files that are scrambled with MQA are worse quality than CD-rips. Even if no MQA decoding is involved.
- thirdsun 5y ago> Knowing Apple, I think they probably wanted to offer lossless but the record companies are still paranoid about lossless copies... philistines. You can buy digital lossless audio files on countless stores. Sure, iTunes is a different scale compared to Bandcamp, but buying lossless digital audio files isn't exactly new.