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| From | plattc@optonline.net |
| Subject | Re: Downloading/purchasing wav quality tracks |
| Date | Wed, 30 Sep 2009 19:46:41 +0000 (GMT) |
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Oh, and they've got Bar None in their roster of labels too.
----- Original Message -----
From:
Date: Wednesday, September 30, 2009 3:43 pm
Subject: Re: Downloading/purchasing wav quality tracks
To: audities@smoe.org,
> Late reply (better than none, eh?), there are a few sites that
> offer not just wav quality (i.e. 44 khz/16bit) but beyond that.
> One example I've been looking at recently (because a performance
> I did with the NY Phil was just made available there) is
> HDTracks.com, which has limited stuff available at 96kHz/24bit
> (essentially DVD-A or SACD quality, which presumably is the
> source for many of their offerings). A lot of classical, but
> also smatterings of jazz, pop, rock, r&b, whatever. I think one
> of the labels they have in particular is KOCH, so there's some
> hi-rez Kinks to be had, even the Smithereen's "Tommy", recently
> released.
> Of course, this assumes you've got the hardware (and/or
> software) to play the stuff, but options are definitely out there.
>
> Christopher
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Mike Hodges
> Date: Wednesday, September 23, 2009 11:32 pm
> Subject: Downloading/purchasing wav quality tracks
> To: Audities
>
> > Hello fellow auditeers,
> >
> > As I was listening to some tracks my daughter downloaded off
> > of Itunes,
> > I got to thinking that there must be a better (cheaper) way of
> > getting
> > single tracks in CD quality than hunting down the disc on
> amazon
> > for the
> > single track.
> >
> > When I focus on a good song, I need it in the best quality
> > available
> > (which is one reason I hate "itunes-only" releases). Is there
> a
> > service or
> > source that provides wav or flac files of songs?
> >
> > It would be like buying 45s, which I used to love to do.
> >
> > Mike
> >
> >
>
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