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Re:NPR Intern Gets an Earful After Blogging About 11,000 Songs by te_chris on Wednesday June 20, 2012 @06:31PM (#4139495)
They still don't offer lossless, so there's one rationale right there.

While it's oh so easy to claim a moral high ground on this there are still things in the market which could be easily offered (ALAC downloads in the iTunes store, for example) but aren't. As such, I use spotify premium for day to day, but if I'm buying music, it's lossless or nothing. I'm not paying the same price for a CD for a worse experience. That is not value.

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Re:NPR Intern Gets an Earful After Blogging About 11,000 Songs by tzs on Wednesday June 20, 2012 @10:26PM (#4140195)
Have you done a blind A/B test to determine if you can hear the difference between 256 kbit/sec AAC and lossless?
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Re:NPR Intern Gets an Earful After Blogging About 11,000 Songs by te_chris on Saturday June 23, 2012 @12:41AM (#4150065)
It doesn't matter. One is a reference quality file, the other has been artificially degraded. I'm not paying the same price as a physical, reference quality medium for an artificially degraded file.
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