TempleOfEar
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is there any website that SELLS lossless files? i would love to be able to buy an album infront of my computer whenever i get the itch. even if it's at 2 a.m...
Lossless music website?
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incognitoedleon
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Besides the semi-legal allofmp3.com, there's http://www.musicgiants.com/ . I've never used it before, so I can't comment on the service.
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Yeah, sometimes I get that itch at 2 am too. So I head on over to Amazon or Yourmusic.com and order the CD.
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This is when Amazon Prime really comes in handy!
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Free 2-day shipping kicks ass!
| Originally Posted by dvallere This is when Amazon Prime really comes in handy! |
Free 2-day shipping kicks ass!
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Yourmusic.com is great for back catalog stuff -- $5.99 per CD, no shipping charges. Very cool.
I also am a MusicGiants user. They offer Windows Media Lossless downloads. Which is cool. And their selection is pretty good. The tracks are $1.29, so at that price, for me, I use it only for the one-hit wonder type stuff, since the full CD at yourmusic.com is $5.99...
Also, the files have DRM, so you have to burn them to a CD to import them into iTunes if you are an iTunes user, or to some other kind of program if you use a portable that isn't compatime with WMA lossless (and not many are). But at least when you make that CD it's lossless
I also am a MusicGiants user. They offer Windows Media Lossless downloads. Which is cool. And their selection is pretty good. The tracks are $1.29, so at that price, for me, I use it only for the one-hit wonder type stuff, since the full CD at yourmusic.com is $5.99...
Also, the files have DRM, so you have to burn them to a CD to import them into iTunes if you are an iTunes user, or to some other kind of program if you use a portable that isn't compatime with WMA lossless (and not many are). But at least when you make that CD it's lossless
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allofmp3 sounds too good to be true and somehow, it is... half of the files i downloaded from them have distortion on one place or another.
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I've never experienced a bad file from Allofmp3.
| Originally Posted by TempleOfEar allofmp3 sounds too good to be true and somehow, it is... half of the files i downloaded from them have distortion on one place or another. |
I've never experienced a bad file from Allofmp3.
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Half the albums on that site are transcoded from 384 kbps mp3 files. I haven't used them in a long time, but I think the lossless sourced albums are indicated as "online exclusive" or something like that.
| Originally Posted by TempleOfEar allofmp3 sounds too good to be true and somehow, it is... half of the files i downloaded from them have distortion on one place or another. |
Half the albums on that site are transcoded from 384 kbps mp3 files. I haven't used them in a long time, but I think the lossless sourced albums are indicated as "online exclusive" or something like that.
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Ya, I paid for Coltrane's "A Love Supreme" and it was like 328 kbs mp3, not even 384 or whatever you said and I was very confused. Never used their service since. Even though I pre-paid 10 bucks which is how their thing works. Whatever. The first website I thought of when you asked about lossless was archive.org but that is all live performances (as far as I know).
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