How do you bill for iTunes downloads?

[Craig Seeman]

I’d think you’d want to deliver AIF or WAV rather than have someone use a heavily compressed AAC file as an audio master.

I have been in the position where I was given permission to use material from the rights holder from a heavily compressed source. It also was from a recording artist who owned all their own material. In fact they had left a record label in part, because they wanted complete ownership and control. I asked for “master” quality and provided FTP for delivery.

AAC might be good for listening but I wouldn’t want to run it through another round of compression after editing.