Best music download site?

Energize · 15 Sep 2009 at 20:01

What's everyones favourite music download website? I have a huge collection of music that needs to be purchased legally but don't know where the best place to get them is. Preferably a place where software isn't needed like itunes.

Ross1234 · 15 Sep 2009 at 20:02

Amazon mp3 download is great. Excellent quality.

Ross1234 · 15 Sep 2009 at 20:11

You mean the quality of a CD that you buy? Is so most dont, but you would need a pretty expensive hifi to tell the difference betweens amazons downloads and a CD.

J1234 · 15 Sep 2009 at 20:23

Just buy the CD and rip it in lossless, so much better than mp3s.

Seft · 15 Sep 2009 at 20:26

Beatport, DJ Download and Trackitdown and Juno all sell WAV and 320k MP3s.

Amazon MP3 store has a great selection, is cheap and good sound quality (256k variable)

Energize · 15 Sep 2009 at 21:48

Justin said:
Just buy the CD and rip it in lossless, so much better than mp3s.

Too much hassle and more expensive, I'm very rarely interested in more than a couple of songs on a cd so there's no point in buying a cd, plus I can't tell the diference between 256k mp3 and lossless on my Shure headphones anyway.

marc2003 · 15 Sep 2009 at 21:52

Ross1234 said:
Amazon mp3 download is great. Excellent quality.

yup, most stuff is encoded with lame @ v0. it doesn't get any better than that.

(well apart from lossless obviously

)

Bane · 26 Oct 2009 at 21:05

Has anyone used mp3skyline.com? As it's been the only site I've found that has System of Life - Love is Cool (Luv is cool) radio edit.

Youtube link of track

mjt · 26 Oct 2009 at 21:13

Justin said:
Just buy the CD and rip it in lossless, so much better than mp3s.

this, if you want to do things legally

J1234 · 26 Oct 2009 at 21:16

Technically it's illegal to rip CDs, even if you own them.

Marky · 26 Oct 2009 at 21:25

Energize said:
What's everyones favourite music download website? I have a huge collection of music that needs to be purchased legally but don't know where the best place to get them is. Preferably a place where software isn't needed like itunes.

You mean you have a massive cd collection yet you want to rebuy it all?!

spikey57 · 26 Oct 2009 at 21:36

Justin said:
Technically it's illegal to rip CDs, even if you own them.

Um I believe you are allowed to make one digital copy, which is legal providing you own the CD from which it came (to cover portable mp3 players et al)

Shamikebab · 26 Oct 2009 at 21:38

The only site I use for legal MP3's is www.fixtstore.com. Does a lot of electronic/industrial/rock stuff that doesn't generally have physical release.

milkinc13 · 26 Oct 2009 at 21:55

spikey57 said:
Um I believe you are allowed to make one digital copy, which is legal providing you own the CD from which it came (to cover portable mp3 players et al)

not under current UK law, which is about 20 odd years out of date

spikey57 · 26 Oct 2009 at 22:48

Well yes, we are sticklers for keeping the laws of ye olde times in aren't we.

dante6491 · 26 Oct 2009 at 23:03

www.7digital.com is quite good.

mjt · 26 Oct 2009 at 23:17

Justin said:
Technically it's illegal to rip CDs, even if you own them.

this is true, but i was referring to illegal downloading, which is even better

Energize · 27 Oct 2009 at 11:40

Marky said:
You mean you have a massive cd collection yet you want to rebuy it all?!

No.

Glaucus · 27 Oct 2009 at 12:13

I'm going to be trying skysongs on pay day. It's £7.99 a month for unlimited streaming and you get to download one album or 15 songs a month to keep. apparently it's all in 320kbps but haven't confirmed that.