Where do you get your music?

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  • RumRat
    RumRat Posts: 4,790 Forumite
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    Google play music. I have my own collection uploaded there, but, these days I just ask google to play whatever and I just stream it. I've given up on buying CD's and music.
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  • ruperts
    ruperts Posts: 3,673 Forumite
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    For offline music I use Spotify premium and downloaded shows from the BBC iPlayer radio app
  • Gloomendoom
    Gloomendoom Posts: 16,550 Forumite
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    esuhl wrote: »
    I buy CDs, and rip them to FLAC.

    I do the same but rip them lossless and stick them on my 160 Gb I iPod Classic.
  • esuhl
    esuhl Posts: 9,409 Forumite
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    Gloomendoom wrote: »
    I do the same but rip them lossless and stick them on my 160 Gb I iPod Classic.

    FLAC is lossless. It's the Free Lossless Audio Codec. :)
  • Gloomendoom
    Gloomendoom Posts: 16,550 Forumite
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    esuhl wrote: »
    FLAC is lossless. It's the Free Lossless Audio Codec. :)

    I know.


    Oooooooo
  • Im_just_careful
    Im_just_careful Posts: 921 Forumite
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    @smej

    If where you are going on holiday has WiFi then your current method still works.

    Personally I've lots of CDs and more recently bought tracks I like from Amazon. They work on any device.

    Often Amazon let you download MP3 files of CDs you have bought from them "for free" (or perhaps more correctly "included").
  • KingL
    KingL Posts: 1,713 Forumite
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    Is there somewhere you can buy and download FLACs?

    (I know you can make them from CDs)
  • emptybox
    emptybox Posts: 442 Forumite
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    KingL wrote: »
    Is there somewhere you can buy and download FLACs?

    (I know you can make them from CDs)

    Yes, there are sites like Qobuz which sell music as FLAC, some 24bit Hi-res and others 16bit (they also do streaming).
    But they don't have an extensive collection.
  • esuhl
    esuhl Posts: 9,409 Forumite
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    KingL wrote: »
    Is there somewhere you can buy and download FLACs?

    (I know you can make them from CDs)

    I said above that I always bought CDs and ripped them to FLAC, but there have been a few albums that aren't available on CD, so I've had to buy the FLAC files, then download the artwork and burn a CD for my collection. Grr! All that hassle and it's no cheaper, either!

    I've used Boomkat in the past. I also looked at Juno Download, but the files I wanted were cheaper on Boomkat.

    https://boomkat.com/
    http://www.junodownload.com/
  • smej
    smej Posts: 50 Forumite
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    wow thanks for all the replies. Looks like streaming is the way forward.


    I've already used Spotify premium so not eligible for the 99p offer but I'll still look in to it if it means being able to download for offline listening. Thanks again all.
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