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A way to strip the DRM was built into the iTunes app - burn the song to a CD and rip it.


Is burning to a CD and ripping it lossless?


If the source and target are both lossless, then yes. ALAC was available in iTunes since 2004 AFAIK.

Caveat: CDs were 44.1/16 so if the original files had more bit depth, they would require downsampling. Technically lossy, but not "compression" per se. But AFAIK, iTunes was also 44.1/16.




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