Blog: Obnoxious Listeners

One of my big issues with downloading music online is that it is almost always in a lossy compressed format. I actually alluded to this in one of my previous editorials, iTunes, shmiTunes . I have come across legal downloads before that were in WAV (uncompressed) format or FLAC ( F ree L ossless A udio C odec) format, but practically all online downloads (e.g. iTunes, Amazon, Napster) are in MP3 or AAC format. And what exactly is the difference between lossy and lossless compression? Well it's quite simple. [...]