Posted on 06/30/2017 8:51:13 AM PDT by pabianice
I have lost all my tunes twice over the past several years; once through hard drive failure and once because I changed my email address. In both cases, because the suppliers require a specific login or download code, they were all lost.
I am looking for a service that allows you to buy a tune, download it to hard drive, and then have it available to you with no special code or login so I can simply put them on Windows Media Player. Any help is appreciated.
Granted what I did is far more time consuming (and not cheap...had to buy a number of blank CD-Rs) as downloading but now I have a CD-quality copy of 5000+ songs that I love,I can now listen to them in my car via a USB tumbdrive and I'll never lose them due to hard drive failure.
I'm very,*very* serious about music and that's why I went to all that bother.The less that music means to a person the less likely he/she is to take the route that I took.
Compression is compression, and CDs are compressed and artists from the old days still have a tendency to complain about it. If you’re old enough to remember when CDs were new you’ll see the cyclical nature of life. All of your complaints about MP3s were logged 30 years ago about CDs and were just as valid, but CDs won, and now we think they’ve got the best sound. That’s why Neil Young got together with some nerds to create Pono, which uses FLAC. Of course even then FLAC is only as good as its source, if you FLAC from CD you get CD quality, if the artist FLACs from original source (ie the board mix that gets submitted to the manufacturer to get compressed into a CD) you get LP quality... or even better.
As I said above I'm very,very serious about music and have been since I was a kid.My attitude is that if a song is worth owning it's worth owning in its purest form which,today,is either CD,SACD or DVD-Audio.I've read that there are discs recorded in one of the several super high fidelity sound formats that one finds on Bluray movies...but I've never seen one.
As "K" said to "J" in Men In Black: "looks like I'll have to buy the White Album again".
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The Firefox addon
“Download YouTube Videos as MP4” works even better than keepvid as it just adds a download button right below all youtube videos.
Music/Tech bookmark.
Listen to the radio. Don’t like something, switch stations. I haven’t bought a CD in over a decade and I have never downloaded a single song.
www.soundike.com. I’ve been using them for years.
Thanks.
I have not bought any 8 tracks for a while myself : )
I get most of my music at Youtube. They have music with video which I like.
Songs from Abba to ZZ Top to Fred Astaire to Gene Kelly to Frank Sinatra to Dean Martin. Rock and country music and zero rap.
I have so many that you cannot buy anywhere as the person who uploaded did a mashup and it is original there at youtube.
Sometimes you can buy the CD cheaper than the digital tracks, with Amazon, you can buy the cheaper CD, keep or sell it, and get the digital download for no additional cost.
CD is digital but NOT compressed. You could argue the need for higher sample rates or wider sampling but CD does not compress the file.
LP vs. CD is a completely different argument. Personally I got rid of the phono set-up due to space constraints but enjoy both.
Your problem is Windows Media Player.
Listen to the radio? You touch on a whole other subject, which is that radio stations have such narrow tightly focused playlists, that you may never hear many favorite songs on the radio. Hence the desire for people to have their own collection of music.
I use and like Amazon streaming, But, the selection is volatile as the music comes and goes. Plus, streamed music is compressed to the point of it being far lower quality. I like to be able to load my music onto my iPod or play it without an internet connection.
So, I buy.
Yep. I prefer the CD, anyway.
Not all. You can purchase and download Radiohead's latest at outrageously high bitrates. Last year, I downloaded "A Moon Shaped Hole" at such a high bitrate it couldn't play on my iPod.
It sounds amazing.
I buy used CDs, rip them to my laptop and then load them to my phone. As long as I’ve got the CD I’ve got my music.
I only have Prime and I run into a lot of artists that aren’t on it. But, you’re certainly right they do add more every day.
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