Getting high quality uncompressed songs.

x_rex30 · Post by **x_rex30** » Tue Feb 08, 2005 7:23 am

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 · Post by **dokool** » Wed Feb 09, 2005 8:47 am

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.

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 · Post by **x_rex30** » Wed Feb 09, 2005 2:37 pm

dokool wrote:
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.
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.

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?

Org Profile · Post by **LantisEscudo** » Wed Feb 09, 2005 4:34 pm

iTunes downloads are, IIRC, 128 kbps AAC in a MP4 container with Fairplay DRM. The files have a .m4p extension.

Kalium · Post by **Kalium** » Wed Feb 09, 2005 7:15 pm

LantisEscudo wrote:iTunes downloads are, IIRC, 128 kbps AAC in a MP4 container with Fairplay DRM. The files have a .m4p extension.

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.

bum · Post by **bum** » Fri Feb 11, 2005 10:33 am

Didnt apple force some circumnavigation program of their DRM that was on source forge to close?

Kalium · Post by **Kalium** » Fri Feb 11, 2005 10:46 am

bum wrote:Didnt apple force some circumnavigation program of their DRM that was on source forge to close?

Yes, but they are still out there.

x_rex30 · Post by **x_rex30** » Sat Feb 12, 2005 9:28 pm

Does anyone know any good place to get rare and hard to find techno/trance? Itunes isn't that good for those types of things. Damn you ITUNES!!!!!!!!!!

badmartialarts · Post by **badmartialarts** » Sun Feb 13, 2005 3:13 am

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.

x_rex30 · Post by **x_rex30** » Sun Feb 13, 2005 4:34 am

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.

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.

If any of you have any suggestions of any, please suggest some, I'll be very grateful.

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