Reviewing this thread so I can see what to delete, I just want to point out that “Mastered for iTunes” is a real thing (ar least a copyrighted process perhaps?), which optimizes a musical recording to sound better in compressed form.

Mastering IN iTunes is a convenient fiction and is not any kind of normal practice anywhere.
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Lou Judson
Intuitive Audio
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On May 17, 2015, at 5:17 PM, Tom Fine <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

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> As for mastering in iTunes, I would be very careful about that and do bit-level comparisons with the master files and resulting CD. I suspect iTunes converts to some interim format and then burns the CD.
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> -- Tom Fine
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> ----- Original Message ----- From: "John Haley" <[log in to unmask]>
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> Subject: Re: [ARSCLIST] Is it time to rethink FLAC ?
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>> I can't imagine any audio professional who masters audio in iTunes.  I
>> can't get a grip on that as a concept.
>> 
>> Best,
>> John Hale