EffigyForgotten
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If you download all of your music from YouTube... you're fucking... baked.
I pretty high right now but what do you mean?
If you download all of your music from YouTube... you're fucking... baked.
I pretty high right now but what do you mean?
I know with iTunes you can re-download previous purchases anytime you want with no extra charge. I'm not sure about the other services.
No offense guys but if you BUY digital music your fucking retarded.
I pretty high right now but what do you mean?
I'm green.Oh the irony.
You sound like someone who sure knows alot about things and has very excessively strong opinions regarding metal! Please tell us more about your strong urges to post about the ISSUES THAT MATTER and then pretend like you were trolling the whole time!
Hey kids... there's 30 other threads on this board dedicated to the topics of copyright law, the state of the music industry, the greed of the music industry, and the morality of downloading illegally. Can we keep this thread from becoming 31? Thank you much.
Yes let's just pretend the illegal downloading problem isn't part of this conversation - illegal vs legal : two sides of same coin
If we don't mention the problem then perhaps it'll go away all by itself ...
Yes let's just pretend the illegal downloading problem isn't part of this conversation - illegal vs legal : two sides of same coin
ITUNES primarily.
Amazon occasionally if they have a deal (Sometimes $5, or even 99 cents for a full length).
I had a subscription many years ago to eMusic, but the success of the download was always hit or miss.
Spent a LOT of time with Customer Service.
This was years ago though
There really isn't much elasticity yet with the pricing.
This is where the subscription places LIKE eMusic are most cost beneficial.
Claus... you kind of missed the point of the my thread. This thread was intended to be about the best legal methods for downloading legal MP3s. Something I would think someone in your position would be in all in favor of. We've debated all the other issues around illegal downloads ad nauseam. If someone wants to revisit those discussions they can do so in any one of the other dozens of threads on the topic.Yes let's just pretend the illegal downloading problem isn't part of this conversation - illegal vs legal : two sides of same coin
If we don't mention the problem then perhaps it'll go away all by itself ...
I hear ya. For me, it's becoming more about practicality. I only listen to MP3s, be it on my PC, at work, on my home stereo, in the car, the gym, etc. So, what's the point of the physical media at this point? I start with a MP3, buy the CD, delete the first MP3, create my own MP3 and file away the CD forever. I think what I may do is rip all my CDs to FLAC, and then simply keep buying CDs until someone like Apple, Google or Amazon makes FLAC available.I'd rather buy it on the physical format, but thats becoming more difficult all of the time.
iTunes? Really????
iTunes is the VHS tape of the digital download world...Betamax was better but was not backed by the big studios. But we also all know what ended up happening to VHS, didn't we?
I would rather support the bands directly, then buy from guys like Lance, and then Amazon when I have no other choice. I avoid digital downloads.
...also, really? You've never heard of MS doing that? Because I worked in a call center with a division devoted to MS support and it happened literally all the time. Got a License code? They'll send you the install disks. Shit, even Dell/HP/Sony send you recovery media for your computers if you lose them. Adobe has an entire website dedicated to giving out their media.
Oh lawd no. You can use literally any Office CD for Mac and use the Activation code you're given. If you install it on the same machine 3 times, call up MS, explain the situation, they give you a new code.
Source: I do tech work. It's kind of my thing.
I think what I may do is rip all my CDs to FLAC, and then simply keep buying CDs until someone like Apple, Google or Amazon makes FLAC available.
Terrible comparison.
Anyhow, I wouldn't hold your breath on FLAC.
No, you misinterpreted my original point about the media being replaced after you've purchased the software license. Somehow, you've managed to think that media = license. If you got the bullshitiest answer from Dell, well, lol @ you. I bought used Laptops and had replacement recovery cd's sent to me for no cost, as a normal consumer. Because the license had already been purchased for the machine. MS will give out 1000s Windows 7 CDs without License codes, because they're useless. They WON'T give you a free license code.
hmm...so what was the point of this thread then? Just to see how many people you could goad into going off-topic? Or was this thread the first time you learned that the major vendors don't distribute in FLAC format?
At the risk of going off-topic myself, what makes FLAC special to you? FLAC is just a container, and doesn't specify anything about the fidelity of the sound stored within it. It can easily be used to distribute music at 24-bits and 96kHz sampling rate, or 8-bits and 22kHz; is there a particular bit-depth and sampling rate that you would not accept? Or would any quality level be fine as long as it was FLAC?
Anyhow, I wouldn't hold your breath on FLAC. The push to cloud storage and streaming by the major vendors means that even if storage space is no longer an issue for us, it will still be an issue for them for a while. FLAC has been around for a long time, and if the big boys wanted to get involved, it seems like they would have a long time ago. And actually Apple has long had their own (now open-sourced) competing format, ALAC, which they've never put into use. And now there is this weird Neil Young high-resolution 24-bit/192kHz 'Pono' thing, which hopefully never gets off the ground, but if it does, that would seem to only prevent further coalescence around a non-lossy standard.