Where do I buy music from now?
 

I do not use I-Tunes...

Seems CDs are soooooo 1990's?

I use to use the Zune Pass...but it sucks now.

Where do you guys digitally download your music from?

And I mean legally...I am ok paying for musicians I like. Helps get them to tour so I can go see them.

Pay for music? LOL! Seriously, though, Amazon or direct from the musician. Amazon even rips the CDs for you much of the time.

I use free mp3 apps.

Call me old fashioned, but I like to go to the record store and buy CDs, even if I only listen to them on the disc once before I rip them out and MP3 file it.

Spotify all the way. The quality is real nice

I buy CDs where possible. I'm a bit of an audiophile and I like to rip my music myself to FLAC. The files take up more space but I prioritize quality over anything else.

CD's, then rip.

I like to have physical music, because all your digital music can be erased in seconds, even external hardrives fail too...

Records for quality listening for jazz and metal.

You get more when you get a CD, you get the linear notes which contain lyrics, band info...etc. It's nice to see the album work for once.

Most of the music I listen to is on soundcloud, and there are tracks available to buy as an option from some artists, but most of it is free.

I also buy CDs, I rip them to lossless and then you always have the backup on CD.

I would also consider myself a bit of an audiophile and lossless trumps convenience or price.

+1 to buying the cd's.

i tried the whole download thing for a little while-- both through legal services and illegal services, i was never always happy with the quality(legal services were consistently poor to my ear, illegal-- well a lot of people loved to re-rip low quality stuff into lossless formats for some reason), and then poof, a hard drive goes down, and i need to re-download everything(this is even more of an issue with all the stuff i got through limewire/piratebay).

and then there's all the DRM that all the digital media places use, i CAN play it on 'x' device, but it's NOT approved for device 'y' that i also own.. i bought it, it's mine, don't tell me where i can and can't play MY audio file.

so i usually end up ordering cd's online(ironic right?), and then i'll rip them into .wav files using EAC, and then stash the rips on a backup drive and another random hdd that doesn't get used much, so failure/loss is limited..

i used to be spoiled back when i had a carpc in the last car with winamp... winamp played absolutely everything, so i used to rip everything as .flac, but now that i'm re-entering the headunit world, i've now got to re-rip half my collection to a lossless format that will work with more commonplace units....

I buy from torrents, by buying I mean paying for the power usage of downloading. yep yep.

i started using bandcamp not long ago: http://bandcamp.com/taabish

it's simple and works great. any albums you buy you can stream via the android app. immediate download of 320 and FLAC and the download speeds are great. only issue is that not all artists use it.

I buy CD's and rip to lossless audio codec for non-home use with my iPod (car and work mainly). I listen to the CD's when at home - better for more critical listening than any kind of downloaded non-physical media, especially with a nice audio system.

I've purchased some from the google play store, seems like decent pricing and sound quality (320kbps mp3).

I buy used on Amazon now that my old job at FYE closed :(
and maybe a few torrents sometimes :X

CDs are nice and all but they have a limited shelf life. I usually go with CD's and back them up on my HD and a cloud but I hear records last damn near forever.

I buy via Amazon. As mentioned, a lot of the times when you buy the CD on Amazon, they have "Auto-rip", which just means they put the mp3 version in your Amazon cloud player automatically and you can download the mp3s to your computer immediately while you wait for the CD.

Tubemate app.. only for androids:thumbup:

Do they? I've had CDs that I've burned stop working, but never have I had a mass produced store bought CD not function.

I have some 20+ year old CDs too.

CDs can last a while don't get me wrong (especially the non-writable ones) but they degrade after a certain mark that's for sure.

Vinyl's, if not exposed to harsh conditions, like for like to CDs last much longer. There's a reason why you can still find records from ages ago and still lay perfectly fine.

http://streetlightsc.wordpress.com/2...vinyl-is-best/

I will have to dig up some of the info I heard once on "History of Music" segment with Alan Cross from 102.1 the Edge where he talks about the best way to store music forever.

About "The History of Music": [ame="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ongoing_History_of_New_Music"]The Ongoing History of New Music - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia[/ame]

Once I find the episode about the mediums I will post it here.

Huh, well you learn something every day I guess.

I already back up my library via Time Machine, but I might have to start making periodic copies to an external drive just in case.

When I decided I wanted lossless I had to re-rip all my CDs (~400-500) and it took FOREVER. I am not keen to ever do that again.

I still love cd's, if there's something I really like then I'll definitely make the effort to own the physical copy.

That being said, for day to day Spotify premium wins for me. Do the math, for $9 a month you could buy one cd a month or you could listen to anything in their catalog on demand. If I had the choice between $6,000 to purchase music legally or fifty years of a quality streaming service I'd pick the streaming service any day. 600 albums vs. an advertised 20+ million songs (>1 million albums) currently plus any future additions.

Throw in 'download to device' so I'm not burning data whilst driving and I'm hard pressed to find a better alternative. My phone syncs to bluetooth before I can finish buckling and picks up where I left off. My one complaint is there isn't a convenient way to listen to just an album or album shuffle, you have to manage playlists.

I also considered Google Play but at the time the big data/NSA had just hit critical mass so I went with Spotify. I haven't looked at my digital music collection in over a year, I don't miss it.

Edit: You can also upload your own collection if you want higher quality or the service doesn't offer it (Beatles), this goes for Google Play as well. This is all based on in car and at work experience, obviously this doesn't hold up to a nice hi-fi setup at home like others have mentioned.

Google Music All-Access. Seriously. Look it up now. First 30 days are free.

https://play.google.com/about/music/allaccess/

$9.99/mo. Any song. Stream it or download it to your device. You can even listen online. I think you can listen on a few devices at once.

Microsoft offers a very similar service, I think it's called Xbox Music.

Yeah, I use Zune atm...its converted to XBOX music.

Lately, some music has been disappearing from the site...so maybe certain bands are signed with other services?

Vinyl or nuthin bro

http://www.the-fed.org/media/volume2...e0/hipster.jpg


seriously though . . .


^ This

God I fell in love with this after the damn trial. It's amazing. Though I'd say they only have about 90% of the albums I want. Sometimes they miss some key ones. (No Dr. Dre's The Chronic? wtf?)

Yeah that's a big disappointment. They do have 2001, which is one of the best albums every released.

The FRS/BRZ will get a turbo before he releases Detox :D

I use google play music. Thete is no replacement if you use Android (also accessible from a computer browser anywhere. :)

Sent from my Nexus 4 using Tapatalk

hahaha! we can count on both of those with equal probability :P