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by ghostly_s 2374 days ago
> It's surprising to me that there is still no iTunes-like service that just sells CD-quality audio.

Isn't that Tidal's thing?

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Tidal rents out the audio, they don't sell it. All of Apple Music, Tidal, Google Music or whatever it's called now, and Spotify are lacking when it comes to simply having every song in my library. There are always tracks getting grayed out from each service's rental libary due to shifting agreements and margins.

That all said, Tidal sounds amazing and its videos are extremely high quality as well. I had serious issues with its desktop client last time I tried which caused me to switch back to spotify. The library is much smaller as well but that didn't matter as much because of the clear tradeoff in quality.

You're thinking of Pono: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pono_(digital_music_service)

... which unfortunately went out of business in 2017.