{"version":"1.0","provider_name":"Rainbow Dash Network","provider_url":"http:\/\/rainbowdash.net\/","type":"link","title":"Omni (omni)'s status on Tuesday, 11-Sep-12 16:03:35 UTC","author_name":"Omni (omni)","author_url":"http:\/\/rainbowdash.net\/omni","url":"http:\/\/rainbowdash.net\/notice\/1907819","html":"@<span class=\"vcard\"><a href=\"http:\/\/rainbowdash.net\/user\/22113\" class=\"url\" title=\"Alex Lamberth\"><span class=\"fn nickname\">gameboy152<\/span><\/a><\/span> Seeing how you use iTunes, I will assume you're not using Linux, so I can't really help you with all this &quot;installing codecs&quot; stuff (Windows has a codec pack online, Mac OS X, no clue) but the hardest step is finding high-quality files. Bandcamp allows you to download stuff in FLAC or ALAC, which are lossless high-quality formats (FLAC does not work in iTunes, ALAC does). I download and rip my music as FLAC, but both FLAC and ALAC (and WAV) don't use any lossy compression so you won't lose any quality :P"}