Looking for Elective Amnesia in flac (or lossless), Elective Amnesia - Rise Against Options

[mccarthyk]

I am a huge rise against fan, I have all of their music on CD and Vinyl. One thing really bugs me though is that the song "Elective Amnesia" is only available from iTunes - and only when you buy the whole album - But what I really want is a lossless version of this song. I have a copy that my friend gave my from his iTunes and it sounds really bad. I would be willing to buy the whole album just for this one song, if I can find a lossless version.

Thank you for all your help!

[yourlord]

is this an AAC file or an mp3? AAC artifacting sounds different than mp3, just like Vorbis artifacting sounds different.

If it's an AAC file at a bitrate higher than 128kbps or even an mp3 at higher than 192kbps, then either your file is corrupted somehow, or that's how the song is mastered. Both those formats are virtually transparent at those rates. If there are excessive and obvious artifacts, the file is corrupt.

[punkrockdude]

is this an AAC file or an mp3? AAC artifacting sounds different than mp3, just like Vorbis artifacting sounds different.

If it's an AAC file at a bitrate higher than 128kbps or even an mp3 at higher than 192kbps, then either your file is corrupted somehow, or that's how the song is mastered. Both those formats are virtually transparent at those rates. If there are excessive and obvious artifacts, the file is corrupt.

You want to bet some money that songs from iTunes Store does not have artifacts even though they are ~256kbps? I don't what the cause is but only that there are cases.