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Old 21-02-2009, 14:34
Alvar Hanso
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looking to buy some albums for dowload and syncing onto my mp3 player

anyone know any good sites with a large selection of music
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Old 21-02-2009, 14:39
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http://www.amazon.co.uk/MP3-Music-Do...&node=77197031

http://www.play.com/Music/MP3-Downlo...gitalHome.html

... and plenty others out there as well.
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Old 21-02-2009, 14:43
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many thanks dude
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Old 21-02-2009, 14:43
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looking to buy some albums for dowload and syncing onto my mp3 player

anyone know any good sites with a large selection of music

Amazon.co.uk

Decent MP3 store and some very cheap albums. Certainly a lot cheaper than iTunes. Also not DRM protected like iTunes purchases.

I personally prefer to buy he CD and then rip to MP3. Stupid really because most of my CD's are then filed in the loft once ripped so a pointless excercise. I just can't bring myself to pay for something I can't physically hold in my hand unless it's a great deal cheaper.
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Old 22-02-2009, 12:51
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That's not stupid at all. Most of the major MP3 providers (Apple and Amazon included) don't know their ear from their elbow when it comes to MP3 encoding, so you're much better off buying the original CD and doing it properly yourself. You also get to keep the original CD as a backup with a possible lifetime of 20+ years if you store it carefully.

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Old 22-02-2009, 14:21
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another advantage of having the cd is you can give it away, sell it, or otherwise transfer ownership.

also if your house burns down, or your computer is nicked i'd like to see what happens when you tell your insurance company that you have a grands worth of digital music.
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Old 22-02-2009, 14:31
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Know what you mean about these pay sites and services you can use for downloading MP3's. Many have DRM which is pretty terrible. For a start, you are often paying near enough the same to download the albums or tracks as you would if you were to go out to the shop and buy a physical copy on CD. So these days, I think DRM is quite pathetic.

I know you can get programs to get around DRM but for the effort, in many cases, it is pointless. Most service such as iTunes and Napster have music downloads up to the quality of 256kbps and I think some very old music you may find on there will be encoded at as low as 128kbps which might well be enough for most people but if you want quality, your better off with the CD and ripping the songs to MP3 format at 320kbps which is what most MP3 players support up to.

In fact, that is what I am doing now with my collection of music. Getting most of it in highest possible quality, though there is a problem, some music I have, I don't have a CD of it so getting it at 320kbps will be a problem.
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