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Does anyone recommend any resource for downloading high quality.mp3/FLAC music that I can use put on my personal streaming service. I know I can pirate but I r
by max_ 2y ago
Does anyone recommend any resource for downloading high quality.mp3/FLAC music that I can use put on my personal streaming service.
I know I can pirate but I really want to buy it legally in a way artists might benefit.
Places like Band camp have very small collections.
I know of 7 digital https://uk.7digital.com/ https://uk.7digital.com/
But for some reason "This store is not available for your location"
- tmjwid 2y agoQobuz sells popular music in 24bit flac. Bleep and Boomkat sell more obscure stuff. Your best bet is thrift/charity stores and ripping CDs. Super cheap and plentiful and albums are still put out on CDs.
- JodieBenitez 2y ago> Places like Band camp have very small collections. Really ? My bandcamp collection is big and my BC wish list is huge... so much good stuff there. I'm afraid there aren't a lot of places that are fair to artists outside bandcamp.
- noyesno 2y agoQobuz has an extensive online shop for music.
- notarealllama 2y agoTrue, but they are pricey ($25+ USD for an album), and force you to choose between hi-res (24 bit FLAC) and CD quality, instead of purchasing rights to a song and offering MP3 as well. I have an extensive MP3 collection, favorite albums I try to keep FLAC, while others I'm fine with MP3/320 or for stuff I collect but don't listen to all the time, VBR 256 is fine to keep size small.
- lupusreal 2y agoTo benefit the artist its usually better to pirate the music and buy some merch.
- pacifika 2y agoInteresting, do you have a source for this?
- shiroiushi 2y agoIt depends on the artist and their contracts of course, but for normal (non-indie) artists with labels, this is well-known and you can read all about it all over the internet. Generally, most bands make most of their money from touring, both from ticket sales and especially from merchandise (T-shirts etc.). They don't normally make much from CDs, and very little from streaming, that mostly goes to the label. So if you really want to support an artist, go to their concert and buy a t-shirt. If a concert isn't convenient, you can probably buy a t-shirt from their website. This will do a lot more for their personal finances than worrying about copyrights. Personally, though, I do like to buy CDs of artists I follow, and I normally rip my music in FLAC from those. A lot of the CDs these days are quite nice, with cool books sometimes.
- sn0wleppard 2y agoYou can still buy music from iTunes, not sure what formats you can download but AFAIK it's DRM-free these days
- ben-schaaf 2y agoBeatport is the other place I buy from. Unfortunately if it's not on bandcamp or beatport the only remaining place is itunes.
- Mashimo 2y agobeatport, beatsource, traxxsource, bandcamp. I think iTune store has 256kb/s AAC wich should be equal or better to high quality mp3. And I believe amazon music is similar.
- Semaphor 2y agoIt probably depends on the genre, for metal, almost everything is on bandcamp. The main exceptions are some very old, some very poppy nuclear blast/napalm record stuff, or generally Japanese bands which mostly seem to not care about non-Japanese fans in general. I buy about 1-2 albums a week from bandcamp.
- conradfr 2y agoHave you done an abx test on what you would consider bad mp3 from a "regular" store and the flac version?