I regularly get questions about lossless audio files, or files compressed in a lossless format, for my Ask the iTunes Guy column. These questions come from people who seek to listen to the best quality audio files with iTunes. But many iTunes users don’t know what these files are.
In this article, I’m going to explain what lossless audio files are, how to create them, why you might want to use them, and why you might not.
Read the rest of the article on Macworld.