Where can I obtain the latest dance music in high-res?

Where can I obtain the latest dance music in high-res?

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Ballistic

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940 posts

259 months

Friday 23rd March 2018
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I'm struggling to find a source for the latest dance music - the kind of stuff that Pete Tong plays on a Friday night.

I'm after tracks that I can download in high- res and save to my streamer.

I'm considering subscribing to Tidal; would this be recommended and is there anywhere else that I should be looking?

teecee

161 posts

244 months

Friday 23rd March 2018
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Not normally downloadable but you might like this https://www.di.fm/#

Ballistic

Original Poster:

940 posts

259 months

Friday 23rd March 2018
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Thanks teecee - I'll have a listen. Is this just a radio station or can I save tracks that I like?

BRR

1,845 posts

171 months

Friday 23rd March 2018
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I buy all the stuff I use for DJing from beatport or traxsource, they have stuff available a long time before it's on daytime radio etc

big dub

4,038 posts

216 months

Friday 23rd March 2018
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I use Beatport as well, you should be able to find what you need on there.

Condi

17,082 posts

170 months

Friday 23rd March 2018
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Beatport.

As long as you dont fall into the trap of simply downloading whatever is number 1 and playing that....

Ballistic

Original Poster:

940 posts

259 months

Saturday 24th March 2018
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Thanks for the suggestions, I'll check them out.

Ballistic

Original Poster:

940 posts

259 months

Sunday 25th March 2018
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I've had a look at Beatport and Traxsource and both sites are just what I'm looking for and a great inspiration for the latest dance tunes - so thanks to everyone that suggested them.
I like the way you can listen to the first 90s or so to se if you like the track and Beatport shows where else the same track appears.
Out of Beatport, Tranxsource and Tidal; which do you think will offer me the best quality downloads.
The music is purely for my own use at home on a decent hifi system.

theboss

6,878 posts

218 months

Monday 2nd April 2018
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I find Spotify works well at 320kbps.

I do buy lossless redbook and high res recordings, mainly classical and acoustic contemporary music, of all genres I think that electronic dance music compresses very well so you might find quality-wise a high bitrate lossy stream sounds as good as a lossless one.

I recently binned a lossless streaming service because despite the client telling me it was streaming at 1411kbps lossless, the compression artefacts were so obviously audible I came to the conclusion that for some albums at least (generally obscure classical ones) they must take heavily compressed material and just transcode to a lossless codec. I won't mention the name.

Ballistic

Original Poster:

940 posts

259 months

Tuesday 3rd April 2018
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After carefully considering the pro's and con's of Beatport, Traxsource and Tidal, I decided to buy some wav tracks from Beatport, and have been very impressed with the quality.
Traxsource seemed more expensive for the same music.
Tidal doesn't offer all of the latest dance music that can be found on Beatport and Traxsource, plus I would have to take out a monthly subscription. My preference is to buy tracks as and when I want too.

Thanks again for all of the help and advice.

If it hadn't been for PH and this forum, I don't think I would have ever discovered Beatport.