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Buying music online

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For you people who buy music online, where do you go? I want high quality files, lossless, not tiny mp3 files. Also, I don't want to install some player that the site insists I install in order to buy music from their site. Why do they all do that? I just want to buy and download high quality music files. I'll play them in Windows media player.
 
I have had pretty good luck downloading music from Amazon. These have been high quality mp3 format that don't require a particular player. I use the default Windows Media Player for all my music needs on the computer.

My 2 cents-
 
Thanks, Moses. I've downloaded music from Amazon too. I've also "ripped" all my CDs into lossless WMV format, because I want to preserve the audio quality. This results in a larger file than an MP3, but preserving the quality is important to me, more so than disk space, which is cheap. With my bad hearing now, I probably can't tell the difference anyway, in most cases.
 
I have music I've downloaded at 128kbps and WMA Lossless files ripped from a CD and on my very good mp3 player and extremely good Shure earphones it's still impossible to tell the difference on the bus into work every day. If you are listening on your computer then the chances of being able to tell the difference between the two is even less.
I like being able to download single tracks as well as whole albums from Amazon and the bitrate is always higher than it needs to be to sound perfect.
 
Sounds like all you need now is to install the RadioCD4 gauge into your panels and you can be flying along listening to your "8-track" too :d.

For years I was using a payware version of MusicMatch for my music on my computer, but a couple of days ago I upgraded to Media Player 11 and I don't think I'll miss MusicMatch much.
 
I really like iTunes.

There is supposedly a payware version of iTunes that has high caliber music files. I havent found out much about it though.

Whats nice about iTunes is their Demo samples. Not full samples though.

Whats nice about Yahoo music is they have 'full' samples you can listen to online on their webpages.



Bill
 
Maybe things have changed but the earlier iTunes turned me right off when I saw how much "extra" software had to be installed to download and play the tracks.
 
After turning my interest onto Mp3 only recently (I always had the suspicion the sound would be awfull:) I usually buy at Amazon. Quality is great and the purchase is safe and easy. Unfortunately there´s still too less stuff availably as Mp3. And I don´t really trust many other mp3 portals, cause I usually limit my only purchases to a few trustable sources only!

Alex
 
Ditto Amazon....hadn't had a problem in the 2 years that I've been using it. 99.9% of my downloads are single songs, so I don't install their album downloader-thingy.
 
I have purchased from Amazon also. No problems.

Paul, my ears can't tell the difference from WMV and 194 bit rate or better MP3.
 
Aviator32 said:
... If you are listening on your computer then the chances of being able to tell the difference between the two is even less. ...
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True, but I only use the computer to store the files. I suck em out of the computer through an Edirol USB audio capture box, then send them off to the amp.

Ok, I downloaded an album from Amazon. I can't complain about the quality. They sound just as good as my WMVs after all. Cool. Heck, I lost half the high frequencies from one ear from working around jets for 15 years, so I can't be an "audio snob" anymore anyway! :icon_lol:
 
Don't they make USB turntables? My ancient record collection from the 70s and 80s reappeared some months ago. Some of those records, you can't find on CD.
 
I'm surprised at the wide variety of turn tables still available out there. I haven't owned a plastic record for many years now. My brother still has hundreds, and is always looking for new and better ways to convert them to digital format. He'll never be done though because he's a perfectionist and is never happy with the results!
 
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