If you're looking for CD-quality downloads, iTunes unfortunately still only sells with lossy compression. (Why, when their streaming service has lossless across the board?!)
Recently, Qobuz became available in Canada, so their download store is now a decent option for finding lossless downloads from artists on major labels that won't be on Bandcamp.
a billion years ago I got addicted to iTunes Match for the cloud any-device convenience and never left, even after them trying to deprecate it for years.
ya, I’m older so my mountain of CDs was getting to be a pain in the ass to move around, so one by one I stuck them all into iTunes to prove I owned them “in the cloud, forever.” I’ve been “stuck” in Apple DRM ever since, which is only a bad thing if artists aren’t getting paid.
Recently a win-win: @shannoncurtis sold me her entire back catalog on a thumb drive, which I assume is max profit for her, I stuck that drive into iTunes so I (an individual) have those rights “in the cloud, forever” so now I’m not afraid of losing that thumb drive, or it’s inevitable eventual failure.
@Jay Hannah @Shannon Curtis Oh, yeah, I get that conceptually (and yeah, I'm not a giant music lover, I have one large binder of CDs that's all the CDs from my childhood into my 30s)2m Bandcamp in theory gives me that "Own it forever", but I don't know how that's gonna work in the future.
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in reply to silverwizard • • •If you're looking for CD-quality downloads, iTunes unfortunately still only sells with lossy compression. (Why, when their streaming service has lossless across the board?!)
Recently, Qobuz became available in Canada, so their download store is now a decent option for finding lossless downloads from artists on major labels that won't be on Bandcamp.
silverwizard
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in reply to Jay Hannah • •@Jay Hannah I was a kid who thought DRM was bad and so bought CDs, and now I can't even figure out where to buy CDs!
Most of my buying has been Bandcamp, but for the last year and a bit (since the Epic buy) it's been only on Bandcamp Friday
And now it seems like I need a new vendor! (It turns out Qobuz might be my thing, but I bet it also sucks)
Jay Hannah
in reply to silverwizard • • •ya, I’m older so my mountain of CDs was getting to be a pain in the ass to move around, so one by one I stuck them all into iTunes to prove I owned them “in the cloud, forever.” I’ve been “stuck” in Apple DRM ever since, which is only a bad thing if artists aren’t getting paid.
Recently a win-win: @shannoncurtis sold me her entire back catalog on a thumb drive, which I assume is max profit for her, I stuck that drive into iTunes so I (an individual) have those rights “in the cloud, forever” so now I’m not afraid of losing that thumb drive, or it’s inevitable eventual failure.
silverwizard
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