Posted on 12/28/2018 4:23:07 PM PST by the OlLine Rebel
I use Amazon music since you can add a lot of songs for free and can download the player onto any device to access your online music purchases and freebies.
Then you might want to learn a little bit about torrents and vpns before you get yourself in Dutch.
My past experience with iTunes was you have to first download and install the iTunes application, and the Windows version is pretty bad. I did it on my last computer but I won’t do it on this one because it is slow and seemed to make other things slow as well. Also, now they may have changed this, but at the time they only let you have aac files, which need to be converted to mp3’s. That’s just a pain in the ass. As for the Amazon offerings, yes, you can download a full LP or just individual songs usually for 99 cents each. So just purchase and download what you wish, copy it to a USB stick, stick it in your car and you’re good to go. AND you’re legal. It’s pretty painless. And Amazon has pretty much everything. Yeah, you might have to look at the Album listing to see if the song you want is available, but that’s pretty easy, right?
You can buy them from Amazon in a mp3 format that you will own.
Get a tv cube from Amazon. You can do a lot just with voice commands.
I’m a musician and have rather eclectic taste.
I use Spotify. Huge library, good for discovering new music, manage your own playlists, across multiple devices.
Pay the money and try the full service.
Amazon makes a device where Alexa will work in your vehicle. That way you can play Amazon music through your car’s stereo speakers. It is called Echo Auto.
find a free youtube downloader,
find the song you want
download the song
then find a video to mp3 ripper
rip to mp3
enjoy.
free software here:https://download.cnet.com/windows/
WTF? I have no experience in such matters! I try to limit my contributions to things I know something about. Like iTunes.
I use Spotify.
Good for you! I'm a 77 year old sailor and the "eclectic" is gone from my hearing.
I don't always use iTunes... the best stuff I have is Blu-ray, going through HDTV electronics, direct to the Pioneer and beyond.
You find that in the place where the pirates dock their boats, matey.
Thanks for the link.
LOL!
You only have a few years on me, and I still have a lot of old gear around (like the 69 Les Paul deluxe I bought new).
I didn’t know “eclectic” wore out. ;)
Them damned new fangled CDs won’t play on my Victrola. Before you ask, it is wound up. I am not stupid.
I actually buy songs on iTunes if I want to own them. Or I officially rent them on Spotify. I believe artists deserve to earn for good art.
A few points:
I saw your post, UB355, and thought "AHA!" Great! But then I went to CNET & noticed that recent user reviews on AVC are trending poorly. I hesitate to say the software has been hijacked, but, caution and very thorough research is advised.
If the content can be purchased at a reasonable price from a quality, reputable source, that's the best way to go. (Really, MP3 & MP4, as noted by multiple posters above, may (may!) well not be the quality you want.)
I have found quite a few great CD's, often hard to find releases of fairly well known albums, groups or musicians, that are often better recorded than what one can find from most other sources, on eBay. Usually, a good guide is to check on drloudness-war.info: Almost any recording in the red is pretty "mashed", and most (80%?)in the green are good. (Dynamic range is certainly NOT the only component of a good quality recording, but it is usually a good indicator, sort of like a canary in a coal mine. That said, I have a number of albums only in the yellow, so to speak, that I enjoy.) Very often, import versions / releases are better quality. Sad to say. (I have a French release of Dire Straits' "Brother's In Arms" that is just tremendous, for example.)
One caveat, however, you may have to try multiple browsers / browser versions to get the search function on drloudness-war.info to work. With almost 128k albums on there now, you kinda' want that search function to work! (It seems to be ok on Chrome and later versions of IE11, but not on earlier versions of IE11 -- that's as far as I got in a recent check.)
That said, there is indeed a potload of good music on YouTube, often not easily available elsewhere, and one can use a simple (and the last time I looked, CLEAN) program like Wavosaur to record it as .wav files to HD. Those files in turn can be burned to CD, although I've not yet found a free program that will run on Win 10 to do the burning as easily as Win 7's Media Player's burn function used to do. (I'm sure there are plenty good programs, and would be delighted to see suggestions posted here. I've just been too busy recently (including here?) to get something hunted down.)
The good news is that the vids on YouTube include so much hard to find material, and hard-to-find doesn't mean non-deserving to at least give a listen. Jethro Tull doing Aqualung with an orchestra, or Jay Sekulow's band reliving hits like Suite Judy Blue Eyes, or Ken Hensley (former Uriah Heep) fire and brimstone, "The Return", warning us we'd better take God seriously -- a TERRIFIC piece of Christian ROCK, are certainly on my list to get on CD for the car -- and as long as most of these have been up, and as business savvy as those artists are, I'd guess the artists prefer them to be there & available.
The problem with YouTube is that the audio is squashed. It is definitely dynamically compressed, and probably digitally as well. Some time back, I tried synch'ing and fast A-B comparing the CD of "Fairies Wear Boots" (the original CD release is very dynamic & well recorded) to YouTube. Even on really cheap self-powered computer speakers, and with playback volume(s) carefully matched, the CD just stomped all over YouTube.
As drloudness-war.info shows, this may be partially YouTube, and partially the specific release being played. From what I can tell, web sources are "all over the place". And, "satellite radio" is just awful these days -- I would not even consider it for background listening. I did some comparing of the same material sourced from YouTube vs. sat radio, and this time it was YouTube that easily won!
On the good side of things, quite a few "concert" DVD's come with fairly good to very good audio. For example, I was not really expecting a lot of the afore-mentioned Uriah Heep's DVD's from back around 2000-2002, but some of that material (especially "Acoustically Driven") is VERY well recorded, with quite modest compression. I've played some of their DVD's from that period for people who never heard Heep, on a really good system, and typical comments were "that's the best sounding live performance I ever heard". Then I played a little of Blue Man Group's "The Complex Rock Tour" (with a little eq. to subdue a bit of harshness) and they thought maybe THAT's the best. Hahaha.
This is not by any means universal -- some music DVD's are sonic duds -- but perhaps the engineers' / producers' typical assumption is that people with good A-V systems are more likely to have equipment that can handle recordings with some real impact? At any rate, trying some different avenues to acquire CD's and "concert" DVD's may pay considerable dividends, if one is after variety and quality sound.
I can't hear the entire human sound range. I've lost the high notes! Pisses me off!
I can't hear the entire human sound range. I've lost the high notes! Pisses me off!
Actually, I think it was Ian Andersen and an orchestra doing “Locomotive Breath” that I vividly recall...
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