how do you get your music?

CD's & Vinyl gets converted to FLAC on the server.
For the occasional digital purchase - Anywhere that sells lossless. Nugs, HDTracks, Bandcamp, Linn etc...

I refuse to pay more for a mp3 album than the damn CD costs.
 
Spotify Premium. Huge range of music at 320kb/s.

Anything it doesn't have and I do, I just add it (with a little faff) or if I really like an artist, I buy their CD and rip it to FLAC/ALAC.
 
Spotify at £5 a month to use it anywhere I want whenever I want without signal or having to faff around burning CD's to my PC then downloading them to my phone is more than worth it.
 
Eames said:
Its not the same thing.

The equivalent would be a library of millions of books with a page of adverts every few pages.
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That isn't true. His analogy was correct. It's not just ads, it quality too.

R B Customs said:
I buy cd's, usually second hand for a few pence off amazon. just bought a load today actually.

I then rip them to my server as FLAC using dbpoweramp with acurate rip (similar to exact audio copy but better - repairs bad frames by using other people's accurate rips) Google play music reads the folder that they are stored in and I listen to my music through that at work (using radiant player on OSX as a ui for it)

my networked amps at home read the music on the server and stream the flacs through my hi-fi, or through winamp on PC.

I wouldn't buy MP3s, and I wouldn't buy individual songs. I would buy FLAC or WAV if it was availible though; but sadly isn't except from places like bowers and wilkins, linn tc. it's usually much cheaper and better to buy the CD and rip it!
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I also rip my CD's to FLAC, although I do use EAC, but produce a log with it, and check the log for 100% accuracy. I do have DBpoweramp though, but EAC uses accurate rip too?

I also store them on my server, to be played at will on any of my devices around the house. Works well enough for me.

Flibster said:
CD's & Vinyl gets converted to FLAC on the server.
For the occasional digital purchase - Anywhere that sells lossless. Nugs, HDTracks, Bandcamp, Linn etc...

I refuse to pay more for a mp3 album than the damn CD costs.
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I also refuse to pay more than the album for higher quality. So usually just buy it.

I do also buy a lot of vinyl though, and I am currently trying to figure out a good way to accurately rip my collection to FLAC. I'm not sure my Allen & Heath soundcard is up to the job.
 
Bulk of it was from sky music :( why did they close. All they needed to do was make some apps to make it popular. It was the best model ever. Unlimited streaming + 10 to download and keep forever and at 320kbp.
Now amazon music digital as long as its 320kbp.
 
Youtube playlist when at home.

"nameofsong mp3 download" typed into google if I want to have it on my phone to listen.
 
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