quality of downloaded music

[rockmeister]

just been downloading a ew toons and am astonished at how iTunes plus is a much fuller sound...iTunes sound basic, thin, screechy and transistor radioish by comparison. If all you listen to are downloads of that quality, WTF is the point of having a HiFi system????? :rant:

 

[AmDismal]

rockmeister wrote:

just been downloading a ew toons and am astonished at how iTunes plus is a much fuller sound...iTunes sound basic, thin, screechy and transistor radioish by comparison. If all you listen to are downloads of that quality, WTF is the point of having a HiFi system????? :rant:

I think all that lossy MP3 malarkey is for people who just love the music :minikiev:

 

[calexico]

rockmeister wrote:

just been downloading a ew toons and am astonished at how iTunes plus is a much fuller sound...iTunes sound basic, thin, screechy and transistor radioish by comparison. If all you listen to are downloads of that quality, WTF is the point of having a HiFi system????? :rant:

Tha's the reason that i don't, and never will, listen to mp3 thru my system. It's a portable format and nowt more IMO. All those who say otherwise are hearing what they want to hear:?. They'll have to prise my CD's from my cold, dead hands:grrr:

 

[rockmeister]

is there a music source where the whole catalogue is lossless downloadable, the collection as comprehensive as itunes and the cost equivalent (79p a track for itunes +) does anyone know?

 

[AmDismal]

rockmeister wrote:

is there a music source where the whole catalogue is lossless downloadable, the collection as comprehensive as itunes and the cost equivalent (79p a track for itunes +) does anyone know?

Yes I do know. No there isn't. There's actually very little lossless around - mostly small companies (Linn, Gimell), some orchestras (LPO), small record labels at Mindawn (and iTrax) and a few unsigned-artist aggregators. Oh and the Smithsonian is good for world music.

 

[rockmeister]

so, if the future of music is via the download, were all doomed then.....doomed:?

 

[The Strat]

rockmeister wrote:

so, if the future of music is via the download, were all doomed then.....doomed:?

Don' think so:

1. Good old red-book isn't dead yet and I suspect like vinyl it will carry on for a while - even more so. And I don't think people (the majority public not audiophools) will ditch CD as quickly as they ditched vinyl because it so widely playable in cars/DVDs etc.

2. Downloads will become available in lossless/higher res formats simply because there will be profit to be made that way - same as manynew releases are available on vinyl but almost without any overhead.

So actually the future is rosy imo.

Strat

PS: By the way I'm sticking red-book as long as possible!!!

 

[sq225917]

rocky, Magnatune.com do lossless at cd data rates, flac or wav. They have a reasonable catalogue of classical, fusion, world music.

 

[rockmeister]

sq....great quality, but I've not heard of any single one of their arteeest....a bit of a learning curve, but I'll give it a go...thanks for the tip.