Where to buy lossless or HD music?

[Maxf]

I'm exclusively streaming music now - some from spotify, but I have all of my CDs in lossless format on a NAS drive which is what I play on my main system.

I would like to buy more lossless music, but can't really be doing with the faff of buying a CD, ripping it, then storing it.

Where can I download (and pay for) lossless music - fairly mainstream music mostly?

[6th Gear]

http://www.hdtracks.com/

This is a good site.

[SGirl]

Qobuz is good.

[realjv]

I buy a lot of stuff from Bleep.com. It's great because if you buy the lossless HD stuff you get mp3s as well for no extra cost which saves the faff of converting yourself for the car or similar. They are not great for mainstream on major labels but if it's on a indie it's normally available.

[C0ffin D0dger]

Maxf said:

but can't really be doing with the faff of buying a CD, ripping it, then storing it.

It's really not that difficult though is it? CD arrives from Amazon, stick in PC, rip, check tags are okay, copy to NAS (or whatever you use), put CD in box with all the others. Takes all of about 10 minutes? You get a back up too because you have the original.

I still buy all my music on CD for this reason.

[Maxf]

C0ffin D0dger said:

It's really not that difficult though is it? CD arrives from Amazon, stick in PC, rip, check tags are okay, copy to NAS (or whatever you use), put CD in box with all the others. Takes all of about 10 minutes? You get a back up too because you have the original.

I still buy all my music on CD for this reason.

Yes, for the majority of my rips it's been fine - but some more obscure stuff hasnt tagged properly. I also tend to buy a few CDs at once which then end up taking an hour or more to add to my NAS.

It seems a bit backwards to do it this way, but looking at the prices it's actually cheaper to buy the CD and rip it yourself! I was hoping to switch to downloads for most things then just buy the odd vinyl album.

I started looking at ripping NAS drives too, which would be the ideal (easy) solution.

Thanks for the input everybody.

[jinkster]

I love Spotify but think the quality could be better. I wonder if they will ever increase the quality of streamed music.

[1781cc]

You can also buy flac files on bandcamp as well

[toon10]

jinkster said:

I love Spotify but think the quality could be better. I wonder if they will ever increase the quality of streamed music.

This. I use Spotify every day and love the playlists, music discovery features and the app is great. I'd happily pay more for the higher quality audio if they'd just release that as an option!

Most of my listening comes from my iPhone 6S through an FiiO E11 headphone amp into my Bowers & Wilkins P5's or my Hi-Fi which I've recently upgraded. (Yamaha RN-602 with Monitor Audio Silver 6's) Both provide great listening pleasure but they also highlight the lack of quality when I compare them to my High Res / FLAC tracks.

I have a load of playlists and a lot with lesser known artists/tracks. I've started using https://www.7digital.com/ to buy higher quality files but they don't have all the tracks I want and it would cost a fortune to replicate what I have in Spotify.