Lossless Store?

Dmac77 · Jan 7, 2009, 02:47 PM

Now I don't mean to complain, but do you think Apple will ever introduce a Lossless iTMS? Progress was made yesterday, but I personally would like more. Do you think it will happen?

Don

Tilpots · Jan 7, 2009, 03:26 PM

Yes, I would buy from a lossless store even if prices went up. Not if prices skyrocketed, but maybe a $1.50 per song. They would also probably not be allowed to sell an entire album because that's what CD's are for. But to just get one Lossless song from an album, yeah, I'd spend a buck fifty instead of 15 bucks.

Biggest reason I've never bought a single song from the iTunes store is quality. Flame away.

Michael CM1 · Jan 7, 2009, 03:39 PM

I don't see lossless being sold on iTunes because of the size and demand for it. Yes, some of you love it, but I'll take the slight audio degrading of compressed AAC over the storage-hogging lossless format.

I do forsee some sort of iTunes HD music coming in the future. This could be encoded in Dolby 5.1 and/or DTS but yet still compressed like the audio on DVDs. If you have ever heard a DTS audio disc, you know how awesome that could sound. But I rarely see DTS audio discs anywhere.

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Yes, but only if prices stay the same	1	8.33%
No, lossless files are to big	7	58.33%
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Jan 7, 2009, 02:47 PM	#1
Dmac77 macrumors 68020 Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Michigan	Lossless Store? Now I don't mean to complain, but do you think Apple will ever introduce a Lossless iTMS? Progress was made yesterday, but I personally would like more. Do you think it will happen? Don __________________ The Electronic Frontier Foundation
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Jan 7, 2009, 03:26 PM	#2
Tilpots macrumors 68040 Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Wilmington, NC	Yes, I would buy from a lossless store even if prices went up. Not if prices skyrocketed, but maybe a $1.50 per song. They would also probably not be allowed to sell an entire album because that's what CD's are for. But to just get one Lossless song from an album, yeah, I'd spend a buck fifty instead of 15 bucks. Biggest reason I've never bought a single song from the iTunes store is quality. Flame away. __________________ A tree is known by its fruit.
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Jan 7, 2009, 03:39 PM	#3
Michael CM1 macrumors 601 Join Date: Feb 2008	I don't see lossless being sold on iTunes because of the size and demand for it. Yes, some of you love it, but I'll take the slight audio degrading of compressed AAC over the storage-hogging lossless format. I do forsee some sort of iTunes HD music coming in the future. This could be encoded in Dolby 5.1 and/or DTS but yet still compressed like the audio on DVDs. If you have ever heard a DTS audio disc, you know how awesome that could sound. But I rarely see DTS audio discs anywhere. __________________ 21.5" iMac 3.06 Ghz, 4 GB RAM, 500 GB HDD; iPhone 4S 16GB; third-gen iPad WiFi black 32 GB; third-gen TV
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