There's nothing suggesting that they'll start selling iTMS songs in Apple Lossless. Besides the lack of DRM that would surely piss off the record companies, they would have to charge more for Lossless, on account of the huge difference in bandwidth consumption. I suppose audiophiles might shell out extra cash for Lossless, but at that point they might as well buy the CD. And for us non-audiophiles, 128kbps AAC is more than sufficient.
If Apple ever signs a deal with Warp Records, I could die a happy man. A lot of Aphex Twin and Squarepusher albums have become extremely hard to come by in the physical form (Powerpill, anyone?), so having those available in iTMS would be all I ever wanted.
Screw the Beatles, I own CDs of all their good stuff anyway.
I've seen albums with some album-exclusive tracks, but never an entire album of that fashion. If you'd care to show us some specifics, throw us one o' them crazy iTMS links!
It should be noted that the floor machines in the Apple Stores are generally not in good condition. They've been running for hours at a time, constantly playing music and loading photos and such, and if something goes wrong, they rarely get repaired. Take my word for it, iLife is a wonderful suite of apps. I've been running them all on my old eMac 700 MHz with nary a hiccup (memory-intensive GarageBand included).
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There's nothing suggesting that they'll start selling iTMS songs in Apple Lossless. Besides the lack of DRM that would surely piss off the record companies, they would have to charge more for Lossless, on account of the huge difference in bandwidth consumption. I suppose audiophiles might shell out extra cash for Lossless, but at that point they might as well buy the CD. And for us non-audiophiles, 128kbps AAC is more than sufficient.
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If Apple ever signs a deal with Warp Records, I could die a happy man. A lot of Aphex Twin and Squarepusher albums have become extremely hard to come by in the physical form (Powerpill, anyone?), so having those available in iTMS would be all I ever wanted. Screw the Beatles, I own CDs of all their good stuff anyway.
I've seen albums with some album-exclusive tracks, but never an entire album of that fashion. If you'd care to show us some specifics, throw us one o' them crazy iTMS links!
It should be noted that the floor machines in the Apple Stores are generally not in good condition. They've been running for hours at a time, constantly playing music and loading photos and such, and if something goes wrong, they rarely get repaired. Take my word for it, iLife is a wonderful suite of apps. I've been running them all on my old eMac 700 MHz with nary a hiccup (memory-intensive GarageBand included).