Apple reportedly may offer support in iTunes for its uncompressed file format

Uploads in new file format now reportedly supported by iTunes Producer


26 June 2006 15:46 GMT / By Amber Maitland

More rumours from the world of Apple.

Analysts and some clued-in iTunes users have long lamented the fact that audio tracks downloaded from iTunes are compressed and have a lower-sound quality than those from CDs.

However, the newest release of the tool by which record companies upload content, iTunes Producer, "now encodes music in Apple Lossless format, which produces larger audio files and will increase upload time", according to one report.

The format was first introduced in QuickTime 6.5.1, and support for it was added in iTunes 4.5.

iTunes download service currently only offers tracks in the compressed AAC format.
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