Personally, I prefer lossless music with the fullest sound experience without that compression and artificial loudness my hypersensitive ears can detect. But I listen to lossy music when there are no other options. Because I know there are license agreements where some singers or musicians will only publicly release lossy music for legal reasons. Because I found a soundtrack album with exclusive songs exclusively on iTunes that were only lossy for example. Otherwise, I prefer losslessly digital music rather than C.D's, vinyls, cassette tapes, 8-track tapes, etc. that can distort the sound of songs from physical damage or dust. Because I would rather losslessly rip music from a C.D, vinyl, cassette tape, 8-track tape, etc. and put that onto my microSD card than deal with future distortion of sound or song skipping.