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Doxxic
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Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: Amsterdam
 
2006-03-15, 09:08

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Originally Posted by euain
The only - but major - caveat to this is that your iTunes download is compressed in a lossy format. If you burn it to CD, you have music at the same quality as your original iTunes download - i.e. less than CD quality but, to my ears at least, generally not too bad.

If you rip it again, you can either do it lossless and use a lot of disk space or lossy (AAC/mp3/whatever) and take a second quality hit. So you do have DRM-free music but it's either very large or lower quality than the music you bought.
Yes I agree with that, but the quality of what you get is unrelated to the way you copy/convert your music. Not to having DRM protected songs on iTunes or not, or changing the French law or not, which is what this discussion is about.
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