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Re:Backing Up Spotify by raw_anon_1111 on Saturday December 20, 2025 @08:10PM (#46341293)
Your link doesn’t work. But I assume you are talking about this label? I looked at the first artist and I found the artist’s music on iTunes. Everything that Apple sells on the iTunes Music Store has been DRM free AAC or ALAC (Apple lossless) since 2009.

https://mountainfever.com/colin-kathleen-ray/

While ALAC is an Apple proprietary format, it is DRM free and can be converted to FLAC using ffmeg. AAC is not an Apple format

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Re:Backing Up Spotify by jdabney on Saturday December 20, 2025 @10:01PM (#46341835)
ALAC is open source and royalty free since 2011. https://macosforge.github.io/alac/
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Re:Backing Up Spotify by raw_anon_1111 on Saturday December 20, 2025 @10:28PM (#46341982)
Wow. How did I miss that!!!
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