<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>dmix</author><text>&amp;#62; Honestly, this is attractive enough for me to consider reinstalling iTunes.&lt;p&gt;Windows user?&lt;p&gt;I haven&apos;t found a worthy alternative on OSX.</text><parent_chain><item><author>jokermatt999</author><text>Honestly, this is attractive enough for me to consider reinstalling iTunes. I&apos;ve ranted a number of times on the numerous issues I&apos;ve had with it, but this service is amazing, especially as someone who doesn&apos;t buy their music from iTunes.&lt;p&gt;Why&apos;s that? Because for $25, all those older CD rips and music which was certainly acquired legally can now be obtained easily in 256 Apple lossless (edit: not lossless, duh). I don&apos;t know if I&apos;d keep using the service, but that alone is, to put it bluntly, fucking awesome. I wonder if there will be some sort of limit on this to prevent abuse.&lt;p&gt;Edit: Any of the downvoters care to explain why I was downvoted for this post? Tone, mentioning piracy/abuse, hating iTunes? I&apos;m genuinely curious here.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Apple iCloud</title><url>http://www.apple.com/icloud/</url></story>
<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>wtallis</author><text>AAC, even at 256kbps, is not lossless. (Nor is it Apple-specific in any way.)</text><parent_chain><item><author>jokermatt999</author><text>Honestly, this is attractive enough for me to consider reinstalling iTunes. I&apos;ve ranted a number of times on the numerous issues I&apos;ve had with it, but this service is amazing, especially as someone who doesn&apos;t buy their music from iTunes.&lt;p&gt;Why&apos;s that? Because for $25, all those older CD rips and music which was certainly acquired legally can now be obtained easily in 256 Apple lossless (edit: not lossless, duh). I don&apos;t know if I&apos;d keep using the service, but that alone is, to put it bluntly, fucking awesome. I wonder if there will be some sort of limit on this to prevent abuse.&lt;p&gt;Edit: Any of the downvoters care to explain why I was downvoted for this post? Tone, mentioning piracy/abuse, hating iTunes? I&apos;m genuinely curious here.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Apple iCloud</title><url>http://www.apple.com/icloud/</url></story>