Music downloading

6/30/17

[pabianice]

I have lost all my tunes twice over the past several years; once through hard drive failure and once because I changed my email address. In both cases, because the suppliers require a specific login or download code, they were all lost.

I am looking for a service that allows you to buy a tune, download it to hard drive, and then have it available to you with no special code or login so I can simply put them on Windows Media Player. Any help is appreciated.

[Responsibility2nd]

iTunes does indeed suck.

I’ve had my iPhone for about a year. Looked at iTunes and it was almost as bad as Apple Maps. (My subdivision - 10 years old, but still not on Apple Maps.)

Anyhoo - get an iPhone. Then get Amazon Music. Problem solved.

[P.O.E.]

I back up to DVDs. Not as often as I should, though.

[Rodney Dangerfield]

I store my music on a USB drive (inexpensive) as well as on my MS One Cloud storage.(15 GB at no cost.)

I also have my music on a removable SD card on my handset.

[discostu]

Yeah I’ve got pretty wide tastes, and a bit of completionist obsession. 420GB, it would probably go a long time.

[discostu]

Of course CDs are compressed too. The real sound still comes from LPs.

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

“iTunes, the software that drains your bank account in 99¢ increments”.

[deweyfrank]

later

[Purdue77]

I just used your suggested site and McAfee found the Artemis malware in the download. I recommend not using this site to convert you tube videos.

[Responsibility2nd]

You’ll need the extended music service though if you go the Prime route. The standard doesn’t have nearly as much music to sample.

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Really? I have 1012 songs. About 67 hours. All at no cost on Prime. Adding 10/20 more each month.

That’s plenty enough “sample” for me.

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

Load your whole collection into Winamp and in the lower bar of the play list window it will show the total length of play time. Only if you’re curious.

[Vendome]

[Salamander]

http://www.freemake.com/free_youtube_converter/

[Mariner]

“Of course CDs are compressed too. “

Please cite a reference and edify me.

I hear enormous difference between CD and MP3.

[GOP Poet]

bookmark

[discostu]

http://www.audioholics.com/audio-technologies/cd-compression-depression
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loudness_war
https://www.cnet.com/news/compression-is-killing-your-music/

There is a difference between CD and MP3 as the fast majority of MP3s are even more compressed. But CDs are compressed too.

[discostu]

Had to get Winamp (they started annoying me so I switched to MediaMonkey) and then the scan. They read 20,000 less files than Windows Explorer so who knows how accurate we are, but it says 186 days 10 hours. Good guess at 6 months.

[Mariner]

DRC compression, while far too frequent, is a far cry from MP3.

And it’s completely in the hands of the engineer who mastered the original source.

There remain some perfect masters. It’s not intrinsic to the CD format...unlike the MP3 format.

I have a copy of Beethoven’s 9th Symphony in which there are periods in the performance that one can barely, barely hear any sound at all. But in the end it’s ear-splitting.

There are also thousands of similar rock recordings available.

[philled]

For later

[Buffalo Head]

Thank you for asking a very common question.

[Fresh Wind]

I use this one:

4K YouTube to MP3

https://www.4kdownload.com/products/product-youtubetomp3

Keep in mind-much of what’s on YouTube isn’t the best quality.