Apple Lossless - Do they sell it ?

Dolby said:
... but you can't download lossless from iTunes, you can't do anything
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Consider the purpose of buying music off of iTunes- to be accessible and portable across your Apple devices. ALAC lossless would compromise this by virtue of the larger file sizes. Also, how many people actually listen to lossless music? Most Apple consumers go with the most straightforward method for media consumption, which is probably iTunes Plus.

The additional problem, is that while DRM-free, providing lossless music under the same conditions was probably too big a pill for the music labels to swallow.
 
Been downloading Albums in flac to convert to Apple Lossless for my iPhone, decided to replace my top 10 songs which then turned to top 100 songs with the lossless stuff after noticing a different between the Apple store versions and flac versions.

Around 80% of the songs I think I can notice a difference right away even from the same album.
Recent one was Scorpions, my bought versions form iTunes store sound different to flac versions I downloaded and converted to apple lossless - ComeBlack album.
 
Hemps said:
Been downloading Albums in flac to convert to Apple Lossless for my iPhone, decided to replace my top 10 songs which then turned to top 100 songs with the lossless stuff after noticing a different between the Apple store versions and flac versions.

Around 80% of the songs I think I can notice a difference right away even from the same album.
Recent one was Scorpions, my bought versions form iTunes store sound different to flac versions I downloaded and converted to apple lossless - ComeBlack album.
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I was also ALAC befok once.

Then I actually started blind testing it against iTunes Plus and realised I honestly couldn't tell the difference.

Now I'm quite happy with the more than adequate standard.
 
SauRoNZA said:
I was also ALAC befok once.

Then I actually started blind testing it against iTunes Plus and realised I honestly couldn't tell the difference.

Now I'm quite happy with the more than adequate standard.
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I have tried Tidal, Apple, Google and Deezer, with Tidal Hifi being the best sounding with apple next, I find google and deezer harsh.
If you compare Tidal .Flac and Apple 256kbps, run through Spek there's definitely a difference in that tidal has more info.

Was keen for Qobuz trial but see they only in select few countries.
 
Anyone remember the .wav format? Music tracks ended up about 30MB in size. My ears couldn't differentiate between .wavs and 256kbs mp3's.
 
Managed to get onto the 15 day trial of Qobuz, their library is one of the largest Flac/HiFi collection I have ever seen.
 
Hemps said:
I have tried Tidal, Apple, Google and Deezer, with Tidal Hifi being the best sounding with apple next, I find google and deezer harsh.
If you compare Tidal .Flac and Apple 256kbps, run through Spek there's definitely a difference in that tidal has more info.

Was keen for Qobuz trial but see they only in select few countries.
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Yeah obviously with spectral analysis you'll see differences.

But in the real world? Not at all. At least not for me personally.
 
I'd recommend people do what I do and first replace the music they most familiar with .mp3, .aac quality with the CD quality versions and listen with decent set of ear phones.
Got me so hooked I replaced my entire library with Flac/Alac.

Current setup I use is iPhone 5S, LG G3 with 128gb micro sd purchased the G3 as the audio was one of the best.
Sennheiser headphones forget which model but they hover over R1000 now.

Music is mostly 70, 80, 90s stuff.
 
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