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That's not true. You can't buy lossless ALAC files from Apple.

I had a look and I don't believe that's the case - are you referring to "Digital Masters"? If so, then those are actually encoded with lossy encoding.

On second review, you’re right.

They have allowed you to rip your own music to lossless for more than 15 years, but I only just found out that when using iTunes Match, they cheat and only store a high-resolution but lossy version on their service.

Thanks!

Alas, ALAC