Does compressed audio really need to exist anymore(music)?

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Originally Posted by pagemaster

Yes it does.

Care to be a bit more specific

Originally Posted by crackinhedz

I don't think compression is the exact problem...because even Dolby TrueHD and DTS-HD MA are compressed.

Yeah I was thinking more in terms of buying music, I thought about it for movies but I imagine if you start having multiple uncompressed 7.1 tracks (different languages etc) those start to add up space wise. Also I imagine the compression used in Dolby TrueHD and DTS-HD MA is better than what's used in your typical iTunes song?

But as far as buying a song from something like iTunes with storage and speed the way it is now why do we need some crappy 256kbps audio file still.