Getting high quality uncompressed songs.
- x_rex30
- Joined: Tue Apr 10, 2001 4:30 pm
Getting high quality uncompressed songs.
I'm trying to find a way I could buy songs online that are practically uncompressed, or high quality wav format. I haven't tried the Itunes store, but im sure they have 192kbs per second, or something like that. I want to order ones of higher quality through the net, cause im sick of buying albums for just one song. Is there a way I can do this, and be able to listen to a sample of the song before buying it. I'm willing to pay up to 2 dollars a song if I have to, preferably 1.50, and even better for 1 dollar. If anyone has any recommendations ill be very grateful.
- dokool
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Re: Getting high quality uncompressed songs.
As far as I know you won't find such a thing. iTunes is your best bet for buying songs online (even though you'd have to burn to a CD and rip it again to your harddrive to edit with it). Nobody wants to pay to download a 50mb song, that's why mp3s got popular in the first place.x_rex30 wrote:I'm trying to find a way I could buy songs online that are practically uncompressed, or high quality wav format. I haven't tried the Itunes store, but im sure they have 192kbs per second, or something like that. I want to order ones of higher quality through the net, cause im sick of buying albums for just one song. Is there a way I can do this, and be able to listen to a sample of the song before buying it. I'm willing to pay up to 2 dollars a song if I have to, preferably 1.50, and even better for 1 dollar. If anyone has any recommendations ill be very grateful.
- x_rex30
- Joined: Tue Apr 10, 2001 4:30 pm
Re: Getting high quality uncompressed songs.
I personally think the I tunes selection sucks! I was looking for many different songs and couldn't freekin' find them! Also I wasn't asking for a purely uncompressed song, just something close to it. Do you or anyone else know the average kbps for I tunes songs?dokool wrote:As far as I know you won't find such a thing. iTunes is your best bet for buying songs online (even though you'd have to burn to a CD and rip it again to your harddrive to edit with it). Nobody wants to pay to download a 50mb song, that's why mp3s got popular in the first place.x_rex30 wrote:I'm trying to find a way I could buy songs online that are practically uncompressed, or high quality wav format. I haven't tried the Itunes store, but im sure they have 192kbs per second, or something like that. I want to order ones of higher quality through the net, cause im sick of buying albums for just one song. Is there a way I can do this, and be able to listen to a sample of the song before buying it. I'm willing to pay up to 2 dollars a song if I have to, preferably 1.50, and even better for 1 dollar. If anyone has any recommendations ill be very grateful.
- LantisEscudo
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DRM which has, shall we say, been broken six ways to Saturday, as it were. There are even some nice GUI programs for removing the protection without degrading quality at all.LantisEscudo wrote:iTunes downloads are, IIRC, 128 kbps AAC in a MP4 container with Fairplay DRM. The files have a .m4p extension.
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- badmartialarts
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If it's rare and hard-to-find, then there probably isn't one main site for it, now is there?
I find a lot of good electronic music off the group's/DJ's own websites, a lot of times, sometimes even good enough quality versions to use in editing.
I find a lot of good electronic music off the group's/DJ's own websites, a lot of times, sometimes even good enough quality versions to use in editing.
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- x_rex30
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I don't just want hard to find stuff, some of the top well known DJs I can't even find on Itunes. isn't there a good downloadable music alternate than itunes.. i guess im just going to have to look some more.badmartialarts wrote:If it's rare and hard-to-find, then there probably isn't one main site for it, now is there?
I find a lot of good electronic music off the group's/DJ's own websites, a lot of times, sometimes even good enough quality versions to use in editing.
If any of you have any suggestions of any, please suggest some, I'll be very grateful.