Shops for flacs

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   I am trying to buy some older releases in lossless format and most of the places I normally buy from (Junodownload, Bleep, Bandcamp or BoomKat) don't seem to carry the things I'm looking for. Ideally I'd be able to get flacs but I'd take wavs at a push.

I'd prefer not to buy from apple unless it's absolute last resort as IMO they're a computer company with no business to be selling me music. Amazon seem to only sell mp3.

So, any ideas please? It seems easier to steal the music than actually buy it!

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Meat Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Old Croc Joined: 05 June 2009 Location: Manc Status: Offline Points: 1514	Post Options Post Reply Quote Meat Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Topic: Shops for flacs Posted: 06 November 2017 at 5:00pm
	I am trying to buy some older releases in lossless format and most of the places I normally buy from (Junodownload, Bleep, Bandcamp or BoomKat) don't seem to carry the things I'm looking for. Ideally I'd be able to get flacs but I'd take wavs at a push. I'd prefer not to buy from apple unless it's absolute last resort as IMO they're a computer company with no business to be selling me music. Amazon seem to only sell mp3. So, any ideas please? It seems easier to steal the music than actually buy it!
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APW Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Young Croc Joined: 13 November 2012 Location: Kent, UK Status: Offline Points: 1174	Post Options Post Reply Quote APW Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 06 November 2017 at 5:37pm
	I often purchase as WAV and then convert them to flac using a converter. I then tag them using mp3tag. Amazons MP3's are fairly poor quality and I've had some badly quality Itunes tracks as well. Edited by APW - 06 November 2017 at 6:21pm

IainB Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Registered User Joined: 25 November 2016 Location: Rushden Status: Offline Points: 422	Post Options Post Reply Quote IainB Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 06 November 2017 at 7:23pm
	Trackitdown.net? Though I think thats WAV or MP3 only (but what you want may be on there)

woody2 Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Old Croc Joined: 04 March 2010 Status: Offline Points: 1726	Post Options Post Reply Quote woody2 Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 06 November 2017 at 10:51pm
	https://web.ilikemusic.com/ they supply bbc etc. but in wav.

kevinmcdonough Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Old Croc Joined: 27 June 2005 Location: Glasgow Status: Offline Points: 3751	Post Options Post Reply Quote kevinmcdonough Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 07 November 2017 at 12:38pm
	When you say "older releases" what genres do you mean? Very good website called HD Tracks that sells flacs of a lot of old rock and pop stuff, as well as some current hits, wit the emphasis on quality. Theyre all CD quality 44.1KHz at a minimum, but often it has 96k 24bit or higher versions of classic albums and songs, I use a few tracks AES's into a PA and it sounds amazing. K

MPASOUND Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Registered User Joined: 25 April 2006 Location: UK Status: Offline Points: 258	Post Options Post Reply Quote MPASOUND Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 07 November 2017 at 4:20pm
	+1 for HD Tracks although I have had issues with licensing and albums not being available to UK with them. Also try here: http://www.qobuz.com/gb-en/discover
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Meat Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Old Croc Joined: 05 June 2009 Location: Manc Status: Offline Points: 1514	Post Options Post Reply Quote Meat Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 07 November 2017 at 5:31pm
	Thanks very much for the suggestions so far, if there's any others then please let me know :) I actually found HD tracks yesterday and it looks very good. Sadly, the things I wanted to buy they refused to sell because I was in France. I'll try again tomorrow from HK, hopefully that'll work better. The things I'm after are mostly from the 80's or 90's but occasionally a bit older. There's a bunch of britpop, madchester, indie, pop and old pop dance stuff I'm after. I'd also like to get all the stuff that'd normally just get played off youtube when someone has a few too many and all their guilty pleasure musical tastes come out. Can you hear the difference 24bit vs normal lossless? I'm interested and actually bought a few things and I'm not sure I can.
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