Posted by sbt on 01/01/06 21:37

In article <michelle-F91B1A.13380801012006@news.west.cox.net>, Michelle
Steiner <michelle@michelle.org> wrote:

> In article <11rge55evngjudc@corp.supernews.com>,
> "G.T." <getnews1@dslextreme.com> wrote:
>
> > That's unfortunate because there are some labels that are on both
> > eMusic and iTunes, and the eMusic versions are unencumbered and 1/4
> > the price.
>
> And eMusic files are MP3, which is a lossy encoding; iTunes music store
> uses lossless encoding, so the files are of better quality.

Bzzzzt....WRONG. The iTunes Music Store uses AAC encoding (MPEG-4
audio) and it is definitely a "lossy" format.

--
Spenser

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