iTunes Needs to Improve Quality of Music Downloads - Page 2

Originally Posted by cctvtech

It's difficult to care about lossless and high bitrate formats when the media companies/producers/engineers overcompress much of the music anyway.

Originally Posted by stepyourgameup

If SOPA passes it will kill iCloud and all other cloud storage services here in America.

Originally Posted by bioandroid9

We are entering in a new age where everything is becoming much better in sound and video quality. No one wants to see a football game in SD. We all want to watch it in beautiful HD quality. The same thing must be done with music. Music quality needs to improve already. No more need for weak 128k quality music.

Originally Posted by MSmith83 

I haven't bought many iTunes albums (just rare or digital-only scores/soundtracks), but I've found that the albums I downloaded are often encoded in 280-310kbps AAC. This is generally enough to maintain a CD-looking frequency spectrum. It is in the 256kbps range when sharp frequency cutoffs seem to start occurring.