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| Thread ID: 142368 | 2016-06-21 02:38:00 | Do you buy digital music to download and where from | dugimodo (138) | PC World Chat |
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| 1422170 | 2016-06-22 03:23:00 | i don't buy mp3's. last time i looked it cost the same to buy the album as mp3 as the the CD from the store. with the CD you got better quality and the album art. | tweak'e (69) | ||
| 1422171 | 2016-06-22 03:29:00 | Here's a challenge for anyone who thinks they can tell an MP3 from a CD if you're willing to give it a go and be honest. Get a collection of songs in both formats, listen to them through a quality pair of headphones, and get someone else to randomly play them so that you can't tell what you are listening to. You have a 50/50 chance of guessing so if you do significantly better than that congrats, your hearing and/or headphones are better than most peoples. A lot has to do with the media Player as well. On all my computers, they all have various players. This one in the workshop, W10, if I use the new grove music player it sounds a LOT better than if using something like VLC or any other player. Same song, same speakers only differance is the player. :) |
wainuitech (129) | ||
| 1422172 | 2016-06-22 03:37:00 | I agree, it's hard to tell the difference with MP3s at a high bitrate, but they are still lossy, they are still technically worse than CD-quality FLAC etc, and there is simply no logical reason to use MP3. In this day and age of cheap storage and high speed internet, it's bizarre that anyone would want to take a step backwards over a better format which has already been around for decades. |
Agent_24 (57) | ||
| 1422173 | 2016-06-22 04:09:00 | I sort of agree. I don't use MP3 as my primary music format and prefer to buy it at full CD quality. I do however have an MP3 copy of my collection at 192 kbps for use in the car on a flash drive and on my phone on an SD card. I Like to carry my whole collection around and neither device can do that with lossless files. I also don't mind buying a Cheap album in MP3 format if it's not something I really love. The Album I bought that started this thread (Janet Devlin Running with Scissors) is $12.99 on the google play store (I think), $8.99 on Amazon, $19.99 on fishpond for the digipack and $24.97 for the CD. Quite a price difference. I just checked bandcamp and it's $9.99 USD and available as Flac so it's cheaper than Buying the CD locally but not as cheap as the MP3 options which seems about right. |
dugimodo (138) | ||
| 1422174 | 2016-06-22 11:28:00 | But I think it's also what mp3's allowed you to do - many things, not just discernible quality listening. Many could easily share across P2P networks, easily backup 1000's of mp3's on media, edit from vinyl recordings, easily rip and tag from CD's. Podcasts, save internet radio recordings, etc, I had semi rare Larry Morris, Frankie Stevens, Nash Chase, and Tommy Adderly vinyl's which I converted to mp3''s, and shared with others, Bought those songs back to life. Rather than those vinyls being locked away forever. |
kahawai chaser (3545) | ||
| 1422175 | 2016-06-22 22:37:00 | I get mine all through Google Play Music. Subscription also includes free YouTube Red, so I have no ads online when watching videos, it's fantastic!!! :D | Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 1422176 | 2016-06-22 23:08:00 | I'm not interested in a monthly subscription for Music personally. I could spend the same money on buying a CD every now and again and would rather do that. I still prefer to have my music stored locally and Ideally to own a physical copy as well. I'm a little paranoid about "owning" an album with no physical copy of it. I like the Idea of Bandcamp and the artists getting more of the money, unfortunately so far searching my favourite bands has turned up almost nothing so I'm probably not going to be using that much. Could be older artists are tied up in deals with record companies or something? When I couldn't find a couple of lesser known bands I tried Judas Priest and there was none of that either. |
dugimodo (138) | ||
| 1422177 | 2016-06-23 06:55:00 | Bandcamp do not have many mainstream artists at the moment, but their presence is steadily spreading, and it may only be a matter of time for some of them anyway. Though I would not be surprised at all if deals with record labels could prevent many albums being released there. Also if those artists are already making good money through their current deals they would probably see no real reason to change. Might be a good chance to find something new you like! |
Agent_24 (57) | ||
| 1422178 | 2016-06-23 13:01:00 | Do people still pay for recorded music these days? | Greg (193) | ||
| 1422179 | 2016-06-23 19:33:00 | Do people still pay for recorded music these days? Well yes unless you just want to stand on a street corner listening to buskers, otherwise you also have to pay for unrecorded music too |
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