Is there an option to purchase lossless/uncompressed music in the itunes store?

the songs I purchase are AAC files, which I understand are "lossy" music files. There is an option to create a wav file from these, but if my understanding is correct, that will not recover lost data in the file. Are the "apple lossless" files still obtainable? I've looked around on the site but don't see anyting useful. TIA

You absolutely can't recover data that isn't there by converting a file from a lossy compression to a lossless compression scheme.
iTunes currently does not have any songs available in ALAC (Apple Lossless Audio Codec). But read this article because there are rumors that this might change someday:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1359546/Apple-poised-offer-lossle ss-sound-quality-iTunes.html
As a final thought, unless you are a real audiophile with good ears and a serious sound system, you'll probably find the 256k AAC files from the iTunes Store just fine.

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mickyja wrote:
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