#18522 - 07/12/09 03:48 AM
Format for new music
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Gunslinger
Registered: 09/04/04
Posts: 146
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Hi All,
I am curious how folks are getting new music now. Are you still purchasing CD's or have you gone all digital? If all digital, are you only using lossless formats?
Thanks Bob
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#18523 - 07/12/09 01:40 PM
Re: Format for new music
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Gunslinger
Registered: 12/05/05
Posts: 240
Loc: The Northcoast
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I have over 5000 songs in my digital library but they wee all taken from some of the 1000+ CD's I own. I have never downloaded any music because I the quality is horrible.
If I want new music I but the CD, usually from Amazon, and then make a lossless copy for my digital library.
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#18525 - 07/12/09 07:07 PM
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Desperado
Registered: 04/08/08
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I have a very large "collection" of CDs and MP3s (~20000 songs). Keep em on a 1 TB external harddrive for use anywhere I want with a PC and all of them on my iPod. I can go for months and never hear the same song twice. I use iTunes for control and yes it is a pain keeping them in a logical order.
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#18526 - 07/13/09 12:32 AM
Re: Format for new music
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Gunslinger
Registered: 05/09/05
Posts: 136
Loc: Washington DC
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I generally take my CDs (old or new purchases) and record them in a lossless format for use over my Sonos system. However, I have purchased some digital albums from Concord Records, which sells DRM-free MP3s recorded at 320 kbps and has a line of digital-only releases for out-of-print recordings. Not perfect, but at least it gives me access to music not readily available otherwise. For my iPod Touch, I use some compression because of limited storage capacity.
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#18527 - 07/13/09 01:46 PM
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Gunslinger
Registered: 05/27/08
Posts: 120
Loc: Bismarck, ND
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I purchase CD's and rip all into FLAC on my PC, I stream through my Squeezebox. Never have purchased a digital copy, only hard copies and I rip. All is backed up on an external as well.
Outside of FLAC, we stream internet radio about 30% of the time.
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#18528 - 07/13/09 03:25 PM
Re: Format for new music
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Gunslinger
Registered: 09/04/04
Posts: 146
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Thanks guys. My plan is to go FLAC with Squeezebox as well although it may be some time before I get that all worked out.
Amazon seems to have CD's when I need them but the CD seems to be a dying breed at the local retail outlet. I am curious, can you get a lossless format from ITunes's or is it all compressed?
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#18529 - 07/13/09 09:07 PM
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Desperado
Registered: 09/10/05
Posts: 443
Loc: Santa Barbara, CA
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I still buy CDs - which the last I knew were digital - but wouldn't turn down high-quality LPs, which nowadays probably start out as digital masters before being converted to analog.
Has anybody here or anywhere got analog CDs or digital LPs?
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#18530 - 07/14/09 01:57 PM
Re: Format for new music
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Gunslinger
Registered: 05/09/05
Posts: 136
Loc: Washington DC
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To the best of my knowledge, songs bought from iTunes are all compressed. The iTunes application itself does support lossless encoding through the Apple Lossless Encoder, which is what I use to rip CDs.
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#18531 - 07/14/09 05:56 PM
Re: Format for new music
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Desperado
Registered: 09/04/05
Posts: 358
Loc: Sanford NC
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I'm still buying mostly SACDs and a few CDs. I don't record anything online, though some of the downloads from 2L an HDTRACKS look tempting.
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