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Chart pop music in high quality downloads ?
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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15-06-2009, 3:52 PM
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Re: Chart pop music in high quality downloads ?
What bit-rate are you looking at?
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15-06-2009, 5:11 PM
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Re: Chart pop music in high quality downloads ?
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What bit-rate are you looking at?
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Sorry I don't know what bitrate it would be.
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15-06-2009, 6:31 PM
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Re: Chart pop music in high quality downloads ?
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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15-06-2009, 10:48 PM
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Re: Chart pop music in high quality downloads ?
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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Re: Chart pop music in high quality 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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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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16-06-2009, 10:56 AM
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Re: Chart pop music in high quality downloads ?
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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16-06-2009, 9:31 PM
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Re: Chart pop music in high quality downloads ?
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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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Yes I understand that. My point was how much worse would it sound (upconverted WAV) compared to CD.
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25-06-2009, 12:53 PM
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Re: Chart pop music in high quality downloads ?
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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25-06-2009, 6:29 PM
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Re: Chart pop music in high quality downloads ?
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Yes I understand that. My point was how much worse would it sound (upconverted WAV) compared to CD.
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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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29-06-2009, 9:31 AM
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Re: Chart pop music in high quality downloads ?
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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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Indeed
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