Apple Lossless was created on 2004-04-28.
LossLess Records was created in 2006.
Apple's iTunes software (www.apple.com/itunes/download/) can convert the files easily, and as they're both lossless formats you won't lose any fidelity as a result.
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Currently you can only purchase iTunes Plus format AAC files from the iTunes store. There only two possible options. Purchase the actual CD and use iTunes to rip it to Apple Lossless. Go to the website listed below and request them to start offering music in Apple Lossless. I would also recommend requesting them to offer support for .flac files as that is the most commonly used lossless music format at the moment.
MP3, WAV, AAC, Apple Lossless, MPEG4, AIFF
Yes, there are several players that handle lossless formats without a problem. Apple's players accept Apple's own lossless codec, and the Cowon D2, SanDisk Sansa Fuze and Clip all support FLAC as well.
.WAV is Window's native lossless audio format.AIFF is Apple's native lossless audio format.MP3 is a common compressed audio format.OGG is slightly less commonThere are many many more
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they are lossless...
The default audio formats that can be imported into iTunes are AAC, AIFF, Apple Lossless, MP3, or WAV.
MP3, AIFF, WAV, MPEG-4, AAC and Apple Lossless (.m4a) including QuickTime's supported files.
GIF is a lossless compression introduced by CompuServe in 1987 using Lempel-Ziv-Welch (LZW) lossless data compression.