Buying music

anything I don't mind · 19 Dec 2012 at 20:00

I have always refused to use itunes and don't own an optical disk player. If I want to buy cd quality lossless or 24bit audio digital albums of released music. Do you know of any good sites?

Tom0 · 19 Dec 2012 at 21:07

7digital.com or "rainforest" mp3

Shayper · 19 Dec 2012 at 22:33

Beatport

Edit: Oh and Juno Download.

Why on earth do you refuse to use iTunes? Bandwagoning?

Crizzy · 20 Dec 2012 at 09:03

Shayper said:
Beatport

Edit: Oh and Juno Download.

Why on earth do you refuse to use iTunes? Bandwagoning?

I don't use iTunes and I own an ipad! I find that bar a few exceptions Spotify provides everything I need.

bledd · 20 Dec 2012 at 09:06

I still buy cds then rip them to V2,vbr mp3.

I like having a physical collection of cds

Shamikebab · 20 Dec 2012 at 09:53

bledd. said:
I still buy cds then rip them to V2,vbr mp3.

I like having a physical collection of cds

I do this for everything except digital only stuff.

And itunes is horrible, I have an ipad and the worst thing about it is having to use that pile of crap.

Shayper · 20 Dec 2012 at 11:32

I've never had a problem with iTunes, especially the new one. What issues do people have with it?

bledd · 20 Dec 2012 at 12:23

1 million services added to pc startup

It ruins old computers for what is essentially an MP3 player with a HTTP front end. Horrible program.

Also the upperfilters problem that Apple seemed to invent for Microsoft

Gee · 20 Dec 2012 at 12:31

Juno Download, Beatport, Surus and Digital-Tunes are what I mainly use. This is for Drum & Bass though.

Never used iTunes for MP3's as I believe the highest quality they supply is only 256k.

Rainforest's MP3's are relatively cheap too compared to the others, but again I'm not sure if they supply 320k, only 256k.

a1ex2001 · 20 Dec 2012 at 14:19

I buy CD's rip them to my home server as lossless and an MP3 copy for portable use then put the CD in the cupboard. Often CD's are cheaper than downloads and you get to control the quality. All you need is a super cheap optical drive either in your PC or hanging off a USB port.

j6m · 21 Dec 2012 at 20:00

Bandcamp.

Glaucus · 21 Dec 2012 at 20:11

Shayper said:
Why on earth do you refuse to use iTunes? Bandwagoning?

iTunes the store or iTunes the software?
iTunes doesn't sell mp3s so that's a good reason not to use iTunes store

pingwing · 21 Dec 2012 at 20:15

bledd. said:
1 million services added to pc startup

It ruins old computers for what is essentially an MP3 player with a HTTP front end. Horrible program.

Also the upperfilters problem that Apple seemed to invent for Microsoft

On the one hand I am sad you don't seem to have experienced new (last few years) itunes, especially on mac where everything just now works (and is rewritten to properly be 64 bit). The old stereotypes have generally been addressed (though the quality of music in the download is a little limited so I avoid the store generally and just buy cd's).

bledd. said:
I still buy cds then rip them to V2,vbr mp3.

I like having a physical collection of cds

On the other hand good man! Everyone needs a large collection of CD's.

Something so satisfying about having a well ordered collection for everyone to look BUT NOT TOUCH at...

Plus my car seems to love carting it about with cd's everywhere

j6m · 21 Dec 2012 at 20:55

pingwing said:
especially on mac

I think that's the problem: ported to an entirely different OS it loses much of its appeal.

Shayper · 22 Dec 2012 at 11:43

Oh yeah, was going to say I don't use the iTunes store as I have to have minimum 320, preffered flac or wav quality for my music. DJing using music that has terrible sound quality should be a hanging offence

j6m · 22 Dec 2012 at 15:33

Anything here of interest?

Spook187 · 22 Dec 2012 at 16:17

Shayper said:
Oh yeah, was going to say I don't use the iTunes store as I have to have minimum 320, preffered flac or wav quality for my music. DJing using music that has terrible sound quality should be a hanging offence

Agree, i never play out on anything less than 1144 KBPS, Unreal quality on a Funktion-One sound system is pure gold playing on that.

Shayper · 22 Dec 2012 at 17:45

Spook187 said:
Agree, i never play out on anything less than 1144 KBPS, Unreal quality on a Funktion-One sound system is pure gold playing on that.

Proper club system like cable works so well with high quality

Nitefly · 22 Dec 2012 at 18:41

Wow, people here clearly have some super human ears

PapaLazaru · 22 Dec 2012 at 21:45

bledd. said:
I still buy cds then rip them to V2,vbr mp3.

I like having a physical collection of cds

Same.

I also use Deezer for online listening. I have tried them all and I find it is the best.