Where do I buy music from now?

[IntotheOcean]

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

[Frost]

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.

[malave7567]

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.

[marky]

Tubemate app.. only for androids

[f0rge]

Originally Posted by Frost

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.

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.

[Frost]

Originally Posted by f0rge

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.

[f0rge]

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.

[strat61caster]

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.

[FRStock]

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.

[f0rge]

Originally Posted by FRStock

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.

[Atropine]

Originally Posted by f0rge

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?

[Purdue FR-S]

Vinyl or nuthin bro




seriously though . . .

Originally Posted by FRStock

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.

^ 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?)

[FRStock]

Originally Posted by Purdue FR-S

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

[jonbonazza]

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

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