What do you use to download music?

I highly recommend E-music for buying music, or Amazon if looking for retail priced but they basically have everything.

Other than that, you can discover music with Spotify, Beats Music, Pandora, and even just look up band names etc. on Youtube. Usually, you'll find at least one song you can listen to on Youtube by the band you're interested in, unless they're ultra obscure, in which case, look them up on Amazon, then Ebay, and if you don't find them Try iTunes.

After that, who knows, call your local record store, you never know. Look for the band on Google.
If they are kindof obscure like a band I know called Zihard, they may be very hard to find and expensive, and their website may be on the better side of things.


Edited by StaaViinsZ - March 06 2014 at 03:55

I rarely download, as I usually buy my CD's. Occasionally I'll buy music videos from itunes because I'll get gift cards for it.

I have some Amazon mp3 credits piling up but I haven't used them. Are they usable on anything you want?

I've only bought mp3's from Amazon and d'load it using their cloud player.  First thing I do is burn it to a CD so I can listen on the laptop or stereo (and of course do regular backups of my music directory).

Edited by The.Crimson.King - September 11 2013 at 00:04

chopper wrote: Wow, who keeps that much music on a PC without a backup? Although I do recall a musician who kept his latest album on a laptop with no backup and lost the lot. I forget who it was now.

The Mystical wrote: ... a vinyl player ... that spins at 70rpm .

I use a brick attached to a vinyl player using a piece of sticky tape that spins at 70rpm which rubs against a piece of tin foil to create enough friction to spark a connection that summons a group of flying magnets to attract nearby bats who have a diet that includes an excess amount of iron. 

whatever happened to albums?

Gerinski wrote: I'm an old-fashioned old fart and I still want to have my music on CD (apart from my many old vinyls) with its artwork, lyrics, credits etc.   I have an mp3 player which is rather crappy and I only use it when I go on some holiday trip, and I surely have some music on my computer but I would not like the idea of having most of my music in a hard drive, I like being able to see it physically, look around the shelves to decide what I'm going to play, and touch it, open the sleeve or case, have a look at the artwork or lyrics while listening. I too have suffered a couple of unrecoverable computer crashes and I am not very disciplined with back-ups.   Playlists may be very handy but I have no problem getting up to change the CD every 50 minutes (I don't even have a CD charger).   I admit having quite some CD-Rs copied from friends original CDs but the vast majority of my collection is undoubtedly original CDs.   I am a smoker and when I think that I spend in a pack of cigarettes nearly the same as what a CD costs, downloading music to save a couple of euros does not make any sense.

Since you mentioned "playlists" ... There is a vast ocean of mass-produced, pre-digested commodity music for entertainment of the broad population. It is engineered to be consumed in any quantities and in any order. The smallest standalone unit of such music is the typical 3-4 minute pop song, while the true quantum is probably the 30-second sample that we can hear in commercials etc. An arbitrary playlist is a handy tool, assisting in consumption of such music.  But, there is nothing wrong with that, as long as you can opt out and choose what I call quality music.  

If you haven't seen this, you may want to sneak a  peek: http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xrvzgq_steven-wilson-interview-2011-part-1_music, where Steven Wilson is discussing the  playlist/jukebox mentality that has evolved to meet the instant gratification needs of he present day consumer society. 

Now, quality music is best enjoyed as a whole in larger units somewhere in the range of 15-20 to 40-50 minutes, which is the EP to LP length, so that to allow the artistic concept to fully evolve (provided, or course, you like and trust the musician/band/composer).  This way, if you are listening to a vinyl LP, skipping tracks would be both cumbersome AND counter-productive. 

Now, I had a few more thoughts to share on why true lovers of music prefer physical carriers, esp. LP's and R2R tapes (the same way as the avid readers prefer real books to "tablets"), but I must hurry to our local flea market in order to continue my quest of the old vinyl :)

I download from the Zune Marketplace with a subscription, its the only way I will get music online. Played thru my home system its pretty sweet.

Speaking of downloads I was just reading an interview with Martin Orford from 2009. Many years ago, while purchasing cds from his online store, I corresponded with him and found him to be a decent guy. Illegal downloading has had a big effect on him. I was wondering how people feel about the state of downloading now as compared to then.

Orford. Martin 22/09/09

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