know this is going to lossy > lossless which is inherrently *bad* but it can be done, and easily
True enough, but it gets worse if you buy music from iTunes and then ever want to put it on an MP3 player (other than an iPod). You have to burn it to CD and then re-rip it to an MP3, which is going lossy -> lossless -> lossy, which is bad enough to be audibly bad to many people. And it's fair-to-moderate amount of faff just to move your tunes around.
If you buy it on CD in the first place you avoid all that bother. And get a free CD-quality physical copy for archiving as well, saving you the hassle of backing it up!
(It's also cheaper if you buy entire albums at a time, which frankly boggles me.)
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Date: 2007-01-20 07:30 pm (UTC)True enough, but it gets worse if you buy music from iTunes and then ever want to put it on an MP3 player (other than an iPod). You have to burn it to CD and then re-rip it to an MP3, which is going lossy -> lossless -> lossy, which is bad enough to be audibly bad to many people. And it's fair-to-moderate amount of faff just to move your tunes around.
If you buy it on CD in the first place you avoid all that bother. And get a free CD-quality physical copy for archiving as well, saving you the hassle of backing it up!
(It's also cheaper if you buy entire albums at a time, which frankly boggles me.)