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Most downloads are very compressed, eg. iTunes AAC, other sites mp3.
Are there any legal sites that offer less compressed , better audio quality eg. wav files for purchasing chart pop music ?
The idea occurred to me as the Now albums usually only have half a dozen decent tracks that I like.
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What bit-rate are you looking at?
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Originally Posted by danmc_82  What bit-rate are you looking at? | Sorry I don't know what bitrate it would be.
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Amazon.co.uk offer DRM-free MP3s of which many are 256 or 320 kbps
... and they've always got free songs available (list always changing)
- currently includes Prodigy, Rev & The Makers, The Mars Volta, Pixies, et al
Amazon's freebies: Amazon.co.uk: 000-001: MP3 Downloads
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Thanks I have just got some from amazon and they sound fine on my iPod, would be interesting to convert to WAV and try on my hifi...
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Originally Posted by tausifs Thanks I have just got some from amazon and they sound fine on my iPod, would be interesting to convert to WAV and try on my hifi... | wouldn't make a difference, if anything it'd sound worse
the only data you've got is the 256kb per second; you can't magic up the rest of the 1,411kb expected for a raw wav file out of nowhere and expect it to sound better
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7 Digital is another good place for legal downloads. Most albums are 320kbs, and reasonably priced. A lot of new albums are only a fiver in the first couple of weeks.
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Originally Posted by insomniak123 wouldn't make a difference, if anything it'd sound worse
the only data you've got is the 256kb per second; you can't magic up the rest of the 1,411kb expected for a raw wav file out of nowhere and expect it to sound better | Yes I understand that. My point was how much worse would it sound (upconverted WAV) compared to CD.
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Though there are plenty of progs that can do it.
I'd consider it pretty pointless, it's not going to uncompress anything.
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Originally Posted by tausifs Yes I understand that. My point was how much worse would it sound (upconverted WAV) compared to CD. | It's not 'upconverting' - it's just creating a lossless copy of a lossy file, still lossy but a huge file size. Converting an mp3 to WAV (or any other lossless format) serves no purpose that I can think of. An mp3 converted to WAV will sound exactly the same as the original mp3 file, compared to CD or otherwise.
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Originally Posted by Strobe It's not 'upconverting' - it's just creating a lossless copy of a lossy file, still lossy but a huge file size. Converting an mp3 to WAV (or any other lossless format) serves no purpose that I can think of. An mp3 converted to WAV will sound exactly the same as the original mp3 file, compared to CD or otherwise. | Indeed
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