[maeschba]

My reason for liking PONO Neil Young has to do with the fact that at the present you cannot find popular music for download that is not MP3.  All I want to be able to do is download music that is at least CD quality.  The only music available is stuff that record stores used to practically give away....alternative, classical, etc. via HDTracks, etc.   I want to download my favs from the last fifty years.  If the people behind PONO or even Amazon will make that genre available I'm all for it.   

What about http://www.qobuz.com ?

 

[fiascogarcia]

  My reason for liking PONO Neil Young has to do with the fact that at the present you cannot find popular music for download that is not MP3.  All I want to be able to do is download music that is at least CD quality.  The only music available is stuff that record stores used to practically give away....alternative, classical, etc. via HDTracks, etc.   I want to download my favs from the last fifty years.  If the people behind PONO or even Amazon will make that genre available I'm all for it.   

I usually just buy the CD on Amazon and burn it to my computer to download to my DAP.

 

[Replicant187]

  I usually just buy the CD on Amazon and burn it to my computer to download to my DAP.

 
same here.
you can buy most CDs under 15 bucks so there are no reasons to buy MP3s.

 

[Lukalop]

Waiting on 24/192 streaming

 

[Tympan]

Waiting on 24/192 streaming

Please have a chair, make yourself comfortable 

 

[hughscot]

If reasons I won't bore you with I need to be able to download single cuts (songs) and while amazon would be perfect I believe they are all MP3.

 

[hughscot]

What about http://www.qobuz.com ?

That's a French site.  

 

[maeschba]

That's a French site.  

I never had problems buying CD quality albums and tracks from them. Hi-res files are sometimes not available for my country.

 

[hughscot]

They don't accept anything but the euro.

 

[fiascogarcia]

I never had problems buying CD quality albums and tracks from them. Hi-res files are sometimes not available for my country.

I tried them and they can't currently sell in the US.

 

[Steve Eddy]

We cannot even provide the science of a webpage that shows why a FLAC rip of a vinyl LP sounds better than the CD of same, so your belief that science would prove that something sounds better is counter to reality.

Huh? "Sounds better" is a subjective judgement. Science doesn't prove subjective judgements. Science can be used to determine technical differences, or whether there are actual audible differences. So I don't know what you mean about "the science of a we page that shows why a FLAC rip of a vinyl LP sounds better than the CD of same." What science, exactly?

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[shockdoc]

Those who didn't grow up in a different era (unlike myself) perhaps don't realize how revolutionary it is to be able to buy single tracks without buying the entire album/cd. And now to be able to buy them in lossless formats is quite incredible.

 

[fiascogarcia]

  Those who didn't grow up in a different era (unlike myself) perhaps don't realize how revolutionary it is to be able to buy single tracks without buying the entire album/cd. And now to be able to buy them in lossless formats is quite incredible.

I grew up in that era, and as I recall we had something very similar.  They were called 45's! 

 

[Steve Eddy]

I grew up in that era, and as I recall we had something very similar.  They were called 45's! 

Hehehe. Yeah, but they were only two cuts off the album that maybe had a dozen or so cuts, and the B sides often sucked.



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[shockdoc]

  I grew up in that era, and as I recall we had something very similar.  They were called 45's! 

Yeah but the record labels still decided WHICH songs were released as singles and which weren't. LOL