I have to agree with Mani and now I just rip CD's where possible.
P
Hello P,
iTunes is the only store to my knowledge to get OLD records with releases around the 1970s from Crosby, Stills & Nash, James Taylor, Cream, Blind Faith, Jack Bruce (Harmony Row), Lee Ritenour, Dave Grusin, Stanley Clarke, Chick Corea, Ray Brown etc. with a 24/44 bit depth, which are not easily to buy on a CD anymore.
The quality of the iTunes files seems to be congruent with the CD rippings. A save storage of the "bits and pieces" should not be a major problem nowadays. What I'm missing are the covers.
Joachim