Lossless Music

[TheGenerous]

Lossless? 1000 to 3000 Kbps? CD Quality? Vinyl Quality? Who cares?

You can't even hear the difference between 256 KBPS and 320, much less 320 and 1000.

This is bull crap. Nobody needs FLAC, ALAC, AIFF or any of those. 256 is enough. It's a phsychological delusion. You just think it's better.

Get better headphones or clean your ears?

 

[bwhli]

do you think it will ever be available in iTunes? are there any websites where I can purchase lossless quality music?

after months I was able to update my entire music library to be all lossless quality (well almost entirely), and i wish there were places to easily buy lossless music.

i hate buying music from itunes or amazon or whatever. i love knowing i have a true "cd quality" file to forever archive my music without sacrificing quality.

I think it'll eventually available once the network infrastructure to deliver high bandwidth data is widely available. There are many places right now that have too slow of an internet connection/low data caps.

I have all of my music in iTunes in Apple Lossless. Never bought anything from iTunes, but I would if they offered lossless.

 

[Destroysall]

I think it'll eventually available once the network infrastructure to deliver high bandwidth data is widely available. There are many places right now that have too slow of an internet connection/low data caps.

I have all of my music in iTunes in Apple Lossless. Never bought anything from iTunes, but I would if they offered lossless.

Maybe. That'd be nice, but right now, many places are pushing for high quality lossy codecs such as 320kbps MP3 or 256kbps AAC files. Spotify's "Premium" service enables 320kbps playback, and iTunes offers 256kbps AAC. ALAC files are something I don't see happening for a long time though.

 

[Julien]

I would love to see Apple offer ALAC 44.1/16 option. Allow the user to choose between lossy or lossless versions depending on their needs/wants.

Would also be great (but highly unlikely) to see ALAC HD 96/24 and even multichannel 5.1 96/24 offered for a premium.

 

[bwhli]

Apple might also have to rework licensing deals with record labels if they want to start offering lossless music.

 

[Firefight]

I would love to see Apple offer ALAC 44.1/16 option. Allow the user to choose between lossy or lossless versions depending on their needs/wants.

Would also be great (but highly unlikely) to see ALAC HD 96/24 and even multichannel 5.1 96/24 offered for a premium.

16/44.1 is so arbitrary. It's only because CD was doing it for years. Why not just cut to the chase.

 

[Julien]

16/44.1 is so arbitrary. It's only because CD was doing it for years. Why not just cut to the chase.

What specifically do you mean by "...just cut to the chase..." and why are you calling 16/44.1 arbitrary when it is the bases for will over 95% of all consumer music (CD, MP3, ACC,....)?

If by "just cut to the chase" you mean 24/96 lossless then I'm with you but to jump from 256 AAC lossy to 24/96 lossless is a gigantic (understatement) step that I doubt Apple (and the music industry) will make overnight.

Also file size becomes a problem since even ALAC compressed it would take over 1GB per album.