What is the latest music you downloaded, what resolution and from where?

Posted by: Stevee_S on 13 January 2014

With more music being downloaded I thought it might be interesting to see what forum members are buying and from where.

The news that HD Tracks are soon to open an online UK store means that more choice is going to be available to us. The variety and quality of downloadable music we can choose from is expanding, MP3 to 24bit studio Masters at 192kHz and beyond.

So what are you buying and downloading?

Posted on: 27 March 2015 by Bert Schurink

24/96 HD Tracks

Posted on: 27 March 2015 by Bert Schurink

Burning Shed 24/44,1

Posted on: 27 March 2015 by David

Bert, have you listened to the Pineapple Thief, how is the sound?

Posted on: 28 March 2015 by Bert Schurink

Originally Posted by David:

Bert, have you listened to the Pineapple Thief, how is the sound?

I just had a scan through. The sound quality is very clean for a live recording, so it looks they took it from the monitoring and then added some ambience to it. I believe it's clean but it doesn't capture the live event in an adequate manner, I like to get more the feeling I am there when I listen to a live recording. The 24 bit seems to add a bit of fullness to the tones.

Posted on: 29 March 2015 by Sorren

Originally Posted by Stevee_S:

Originally Posted by Kevin-W:

Can I just say, to everyone buying these Zep/Floyd boots by "Liquid Motion" from Bandcamp - and this is not a moral judgement, just a practical one: I know $1 isn't much, but you can actually get them for nothing from Dime, Traders' Den, Lossless Legs and other BitTorrent sites, and often in better quality.

This is because it is very bad form among tapers/collectors to sell anything or to pay for live recordings (don't forget, not a penny from those Bandcamp sales go to the artists), but only to share them. The series BT sites also provide detailed provenance and Md5 files so you know just what you're getting. (The trading scene also frowns on encoding to any lossless format). Where something has been "mastered" you're told exactly what's been done, and by whom; and if you don't like the "improvements" there is always a "raw" version available.

For example, the LZ Albert Hall show is just taken from Dick Carruthers' DVD soundtrack, and the Floyd 70 - 71 boot is available in (believe it or not) even better quality, for nada.

Many thanks for the heads up Kevin and sjbabbey, I was totally unaware that this is the case with these particular downloads. I will now be pointing my browser elsewhere the next time that I'm looking for these type of boots.

Posted on: 30 March 2015 by Bert Schurink

I have just a discount code from Qobuz to get a 30% discount on buying 10 or more albums. I used it also to get some albums which will come out in due time - and used it partly for already discounted album. So good deal..... So the albums which will come later as they are not yet available for download:

24/48

24/44.1 Deluxe Edition

24/96

I just saw that I missed out on Cassandra Wilson's album - will have to get that seperate :-(

Posted on: 30 March 2015 by Bert Schurink

Qobuz 24/88,2

24/44,1

Posted on: 30 March 2015 by Bert Schurink

Qobuz 24/96

Posted on: 30 March 2015 by Bert Schurink

Qobuz 24/192

Posted on: 30 March 2015 by Bert Schurink

Qobuz 24/96

Posted on: 30 March 2015 by Bert Schurink

24/96 Qobuz

Posted on: 30 March 2015 by Bert Schurink

Qobuz 16/44,1

Posted on: 30 March 2015 by ragman

Originally Posted by Bert Schurink:

24/44.1 Deluxe Edition

I just saw that I missed out on Cassandra Wilson's album - will have to get that seperate :-(

Already avaliable Ms. Gardot?

Posted on: 31 March 2015 by Nick Lees

Sufjan Stevens - Carrie & Lowell

Bandcamp (16/44.1)

I love pretty much everything the man does, and I love the way he's all over the place. But most of all I love his quiet, poignant stuff, and that's what you get here in spades.

Lovely

Posted on: 01 April 2015 by Nick Lees

Touched Two

This is a compilation of electronic tracks put together by Touched Music on Bandcamp, first mentioned here by Martin_C back in November.

All proceeds go to Macmillan Cancer Support, and it represents a quite fantastic deal: for £12 you get 255 tracks from across the electronic spectrum (if you like half of it you're quids in) and a staggering 12.2GB of FLAC download. That's 4p per track.

This is the Bandcamp link

See also Touched One: £6 for 123 tracks

Posted on: 03 April 2015 by Stevee_S

Thanks Gary I will put that in my Wishlist on Bandcamp for now.

Posted on: 03 April 2015 by Nick Lees

It's a mountain of stuff to go through, I'm only in the Bs so far, but already there's stuff accumulatiing in my wants list as a result of it. Admitedly there're a few tracks I don't wish to go near again any time soon (the Autechre track was a bit of a trial!) but it's huge value for money, and an explorer's wet dream.

Posted on: 04 April 2015 by Stevee_S

Ruby The Hatchet ~ Ouroboros

Ruby The Hatchet ~ Eliminator

Posted on: 05 April 2015 by Bert Schurink

Originally Posted by ragman:

Originally Posted by Bert Schurink:

24/44.1 Deluxe Edition

I just saw that I missed out on Cassandra Wilson's album - will have to get that seperate :-(

Already avaliable Ms. Gardot?

No, but I pre-ordered it to catch a discount. I needed 10 albums to get an additional 30 percent on my purchase - so I pre-ordered this one and others to get to it.

Posted on: 05 April 2015 by Sorren

Originally Posted by Stevee_S:

Ruby The Hatchet ~ Ouroboros

Ruby The Hatchet ~ Eliminator

Good choice Steve. If you like them, Valley of the Snake is even better