Originally Posted by
srenovo
To the best of my knowledge "itunes" does not allow the download of CD quality albums.
The stuff from iTunes or Amazon can not be converted to TRUE flac format - the stuff one gets from iTunes or any of the others is in one form of "lossy format such as MP3 or another.
It can not be reconverted to lossless format. One can make flac files (or ape,or shn, etc) from MP3s etc. but they are not accurate.
The purpose of ripping from CDs to .flac or any other lossless format (but compressed) is that when decompressed all the 1s and 0s from the original digital information of the original CD will all be in the correct form/order.
There are some websites that do have high quality digital music downloads but Apple isn't one of them. I do not know if any of them are good or not but perhaps someone could chime in.
I hope this helps