Just curious if there are any good, 100% legal, music download services out there that offer music in lossless format(s). Better mention that I'm in Canada, which may impact which services I can actually use. I was browsing Walmart's site, but couldn't find out if they offer music in lossless format. I know iTunes isn't availabe in Canada (yet), but that was another one I was curious about but couldn't find info regarding lossless downloads there either. Thanks in advance all!

How about Russia's Allofmp3? Can download some tracks inlossless and near lossless. Try it??? Http://www.allofmp3.com

Regarding allofmp3, please see the following post:

http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/index....ndpost&p=239354

Allofmp3 isn't 100% legal, as the thread starter asked. It's in a grey zone at best (and I personally believe it's illegal anywhere outside Russia)

You won't find legal sites selling tracks from the RIAA affiliates (Sony, Universal, etc.) in lossless format simply because the RIAA demands that the max bitrate the tracks are encoded at is 192kbps.

RIAA wants that? any reason why? or they just don't because if they consider 128 (if not 64) to be CD quality, they sureley not warried that quality of recording will be too good. (since in their opinion its already as good as it gets at 128)

They don't consider 128 kbps to be CD-quality, but they don't mind if the public will believe them if they say it is.

I don't know the reason. A guy that works at a major online music store told me they couldn't offer anything higher than 192 when I asked for lossless or higher bitrates.

might it be that they believe it's not such a big thread to CD sales this way?

Maybe too much bandwidth overhead.

http://www.archive.org/iathreads/post-view.php?id=11616

there is a list of labels and artists that offer music in FLAC in the links section of the FLAC main page.

Josh