Lossless songs available via iTunes, or only compressed?

Is there any way to purchase lossless (.wav, .aiff, .whatever) songs on iTunes, or are compressed songs my only option?
From what I hear iTunes "plus" is maybe a less compressed and better quality file (but larger). Still, I'm hoping for lossless.
Thanks.

The iTunes Store only sells AAC songs at this time. Music isn't available in any other format.
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I was delighted to see that with the new iTunes plus announcement I would finally be able to free my iTunes songs. Unfortunately it seems that is not the case. I have updated to iTunes 8.0.2.2, but I can't see the link to iTunes plus in the iTunes store. Today I finally found an iTunes plus ad on the store site, but when I clicked on it I got a message saying there are no new songs available to upgrade.
What might be wrong? I have about a 1,000 songs, most of them from the iTunes store. I would have thought that at least some of them would be upgradeable.
Could this have something to do with a problem I had with iTunes plus when it was first announced? I tried once to upgrade a bunch of EMI songs, but I just got an error after which iTunes plus always told me that there are no songs available to upgrade.
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It's possible, I suppose, that none of your tracks have been made available in iTunes Plus format yet, but it's unlikely that none of them are unless you just happen to buy only artists for whom their label hasn't yet come on board. You can check by doing a Power Search for some of the tracks/albums you have and see if they're listed as being iTunes Plus. If they are, then assuming that you're logged into the iTunes Store using the account through which those tracks were purchased (if in doubt, get Info on the track and look at the Summary pane), then it's probably one of the errors or overloads that the iTunes Store is struggling with right now. Wait a couple of weeks and see if the matter clears up on it's own, and if it doesn't, contact the iTunes Store Customer Service department using the form at the bottom of the Purchase Issues FAQ web page and explain the problem to them.
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I've tried a few variations on archive searches and wasn't able to find an answer to this: In ripping some of my CD's into iTunes (either Apple Lossless or WAV) I've been getting some very odd, brief digital artifacts at the end of each songs on a CD. This sounds like two or three seconds of an audio tape on fast forward. It only seems to happen on new releases (I cannot think of any older CD's it's occurred on). I just got a copy of Mary Gauthier's new album (great CD by the way) and it happened on that one, for example. I tried ripping it multiple times in Apple Lossless, and WAV (always in iTunes) and each and every time it created files where this strange artifact existed at the end of every song. I play the CD I ripped the files from and the artifact is not there. I have several CD's, most of them recent releases over the past five years, that do the exact same thing. Otherwise everything else functions perfectly an the bulk of my 700+ CD library has imported without a hiccup. Is this some kind of anti-piracy technology...or do I simply have some setting off in my itunes preferences (Error-Correction is on, WAV or Apple Lossless is always set to Automatic, have experimented with importing to startup disk and external disk-same results). The artifacts seem to always sound the same too...they never vary, except that they sound different from song-to-song, but the same if say, the first cut is played over again. They are always 2 seconds plus or minus, and always at the end of a cut (the final 2 seconds or so). They do transfer verbatim to my iPod, and also play via iTunes through my stereo.
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As a follow up, I went to the Genius Bar for a bowl of Mensa Stew, but only got some tepid broth. Here's what transpired:
The girl I was speaking with suggested that the artifact was the software misinterpreting information between the cuts. It was only a theory. She had not heard of any other incidents to relay. First she suggested I rip as MP3's. I explained that wasn't an option for me. She listened to a few cuts on a CD I'd brought with, or rather the ends of the cuts and confirmed there was a problem with the rip. She went through my settings, and asked if I'd tried it with Error Correction turned off. I explained I hadn't and that I preferred to use it. She suggested attempting to rip one of the cuts with it turned off just to see how it did. We did that and no artifact was there. So her 'solution' was to either leave error-correction turned off always, or turn it off for those problem CD's that produce the artifact (I'd estimate about 5% do on my laptop). This did not explain why it was doing it, nor why my g5 tower, which is running a carbon-copied system with all the same iTunes settings, does not produce the artifact with Error-Correction turned on.
I'd be interested to hear of anyone else who's been having problems importing hi-rez files in iTunes. I know of at least one other instance where the artifact produced (on a MacBook) is dis-similar to mine in that it takes the form of brief electronic beeps moving from channel to channel.
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I would like to understand why, once I have synched the iPhone, the songs/albums I have purchased via iTunes appear on the iPhone with a red cloud. As far as I understand the red cloud means that it is not actually loaded into the phone but is in the 'iCloud'. I first noticed this when I was at work and wanted to listen to an album I had bought (a long time ago) via iTunes. As there is no WiFi where I work I could not listen to the album. Why, if I have selected an album to be synched with the phone and I have paid for it cannot I not load it onto my phone?
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Am I missing something obvious here? I am struggling with the album artwork feature for use in the coverflow section of the iPod Classic 80GB. I do NOT keep all of my songs in iTunes as my laptop hard drive is just not big enough.
My problem is that highlighting the songs on my iPod once I've connected it to iTunes then selecting Get Album Artwork simply doesn't work. Only trawling through countless forums on various websites I've discovered that possibly the artwork is only updated for songs you have in the iTunes library or only for songs bought on iTunes. I have 1000s of CDs I've uploaded onto my iPod (surely lots of people do not keep their music in iTunes for the same reason as me - small hard drive?)
There MUST be a software fix for this problem that could be issued out? Or if not, somebody should come up with a fix on an independent website. By the way, all of my tracks on the iPod have had their info obtained from the Gracenotes system used through iTunes so not having matching info to iTunes cannot be a reason for the lack of artwork can it?
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My problem is that highlighting the songs on my iPod once I've connected it to iTunes then selecting Get Album Artwork simply doesn't work.
Correct. It's meant to access your iTunes library and add artwork from the iTunes store.
There MUST be a software fix for this problem that could be issued out?
Nothing that I know of because it's meant to work this way.
By the way, all of my tracks on the iPod have had their info obtained from the Gracenotes system used through iTunes so not having matching info to iTunes cannot be a reason for the lack of artwork can it?
No, because as I say, it's meant to add artwork in the iTunes library (although even this can sometimes be an issue if the album info obtained from Gracenote doesn't match what's in the iTunes store.)
If an iPod is set to manage the songs manually, then it's possible to add the artwork to the songs directly onto the iPod (when looking at them through iTunes) without adding it to the songs in iTunes. Just copy paste an album image from (say) Amazon into the artwork box in the bottom left corner when looking at the songs on your iPod through iTunes.
However, I have found that if you are adding artwork directly to the iPod via iTunes and not to songs in the library first of all, then some (or all) artwork may not display correctly.

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