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The best Spotify alternatives to ease your conscience
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this post was submitted on 15 Aug 2026
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The demise of mainstream western rock music is sad, I hate the current never ending stream of rap.
I keep buying music through iTunes, DRM free and legal, I am not interested in renting my music library.
EDIT: BTW, why do you not consider FLAC as being lossless?
I didn’t see them say that FLAC wasn’t lossless. When I do see someone say that, they’re usually confusing lossless with uncompressed. FLAC and ALAC are lossless. No one can say otherwise. I have my entire library as uncompressed AIFF because o have the storage and I can always compress if needed.
When did I say FLAC isn't lossless? I said I know how to make the second best thing after lossless. Lossless is WAV, FLAC, ALAC, it really doesn't matter which one it is. I'm actually encoding to low-complexity m4a (aac) at the highest bitrate. To my boomer (Gen X actually but they always forget us and I'm closer to boomer than Millennial) ears, my m4a files sound pretty close to lossless at about a third the size. It's my sweet spot of quality to file size.
I am sorry, I just found your phrasing a bit unusual.
Thank you for clairfying!