http://www.tunechecker.com/

May save you a few quid if you download your tunes :)

i prefer to save all my pennies ahem   vuze  ahem   pirate bay ;D

YUK!

Pay for mp3s ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D

The album I tested with was only cheaper at one place than a shiny disc filled with uncompressed versions.

I would have mp3s for free - but pay ;D ;D ;D ;D

But then the big companies miss judged the market with better than CDs - OK I bought a few SACD and DVD-A but the market went to compressed crap >:( >:( >:( >:(

Yep. Support sales of uncompressed music, because when they stop selling CDs we're screwed. :(

Kevin

Kevin Wood wrote on 04. Dec 2009 at 23:03:

Yep. Support sales of uncompressed music, because when they stop selling CDs we're screwed. :( Kevin

Is there any decent music these days?

Kevin Wood wrote on 04. Dec 2009 at 23:03:

Yep. Support sales of uncompressed music, because when they stop selling CDs we're screwed. :( Kevin

I am almost tempted to look for a decent turntable.

But CD is easy for the car.

I am happy to pay £5 for a decent album on CD

Martin Imber wrote on 04. Dec 2009 at 23:13:

Kevin Wood wrote on 04. Dec 2009 at 23:03: Yep. Support sales of uncompressed music, because when they stop selling CDs we're screwed. :( Kevin Is there any decent music these days?

There exist decent recordings that I don't own yet. Few of them are recent, admittedly. That's another problem. ::)

Kevin

Oh dear, that went down well ;D ;D

Pete. wrote on 05. Dec 2009 at 08:54:

Oh dear, that went down well ;D ;D

It's OK - just that a lot of us like our music to sound good - and it was a good way to confirm for an album - stick to a CD

Martin Imber wrote on 04. Dec 2009 at 23:13:

Is there any decent music these days?

When you say "decent", are you talking audible quality or just what you happen to like?

If the former, nobody in their right mind is going to pay when it's been out there for 10 years plus.
The latter....that's personal choice.

You want music....talk to me nicely and I might consider giving you an FTP account to a server that has so much music (in FLAC format of course) that you would be dead of natural causes before you got to the end of the list even if you started listening from the day you popped out of your mothers vag ;)

Martin Imber wrote on 05. Dec 2009 at 10:21:

Pete. wrote on 05. Dec 2009 at 08:54: Oh dear, that went down well ;D ;D It's OK - just that a lot of us like our music to sound good - and it was a good way to confirm for an album - stick to a CD

Digital audio (and that inclued the 4 TB of crap I have in FLAC) is wank....end of story.

You want quality audio...youi need to stay analogue IMO.

wrote on 06. Dec 2009 at 03:56:

Martin Imber wrote on 05. Dec 2009 at 10:21: Pete. wrote on 05. Dec 2009 at 08:54: Oh dear, that went down well ;D ;D It's OK - just that a lot of us like our music to sound good - and it was a good way to confirm for an album - stick to a CD Digital audio (and that inclued the 4 TB of crap I have in FLAC) is wank....end of story. You want quality audio...youi need to stay analogue IMO.

There are likely to be bad examples of both but there is no justification for digital not being able to reproduce the same signal as analogue.  The benefit comes in resilience, longevity and ability to copy perfectly.  Also 're-purposing' where digital can easily be down-rezzed for portable listening etc.

wrote on 06. Dec 2009 at 03:56:

Martin Imber wrote on 05. Dec 2009 at 10:21: Pete. wrote on 05. Dec 2009 at 08:54: Oh dear, that went down well ;D ;D It's OK - just that a lot of us like our music to sound good - and it was a good way to confirm for an album - stick to a CD Digital audio (and that inclued the 4 TB of crap I have in FLAC) is wank....end of story. You want quality audio...youi need to stay analogue IMO.

To be honest CD is limited but it is difficult to buy better than CD now.

SACD seems to have died a death and DVD-Audio has disappeared.

Records are fine for first play

Thinking about it are there any modern decent bands.

The reality show winners seems to have taken over the market. The rock bands have broken up, retired, or release, 1 record a decade.

My last CD purchase was the most recent Def Leppard record, prior to that a Deep Purple SACD I found cheap!

Looks like the way of the future...

http://news.linn.co.uk/news/2009/11/digital-streaming-marks-the-end-of-an-era-for-linn-cd-players.php

eddie

eddie wrote on 06. Dec 2009 at 14:43:

Looks like the way of the future... http://news.linn.co.uk/news/2009/11/digital-streaming-marks-the-end-of-an-era-for-linn-cd-players.php eddie

I love my Spotify :y I can play pretty much any album i'm in the mood for :) :) :)