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How to buy music?
Jebus314
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So I’d like to make the jump to just buying music. But I’m finding the interfaces a bit lacking to what I’m used to. I’m hoping others here have website or method suggestions to make things better.
I have a couple requirements:
1. I want to be able to buy mp3s. I like streaming, so if that’s also there it’s a plus, but at the end of the day I want to be able to just purchase a song or album and own an mp3.
2. I’d like the search to be music oriented. That is to say have an easy way to search by album title, or artist, or song title, etc, exclusively. I don’t want to see songs titled Incubus when I’m looking for just the band.
3. Along lines with 2, I like when selecting an artist if their entire discography is listed by year and album type (album vs EP vs single, etc). I’m not 100% tied to that kind of layout, but generally speaking I’d like some kind of logical browsing instead of just algorithm searches.
What would be awesome is if there’s some aggregator website that has better browsing/searching that has links to Amazon music or whatever.
What does everyone else do?
I have a couple requirements:
1. I want to be able to buy mp3s. I like streaming, so if that’s also there it’s a plus, but at the end of the day I want to be able to just purchase a song or album and own an mp3.
2. I’d like the search to be music oriented. That is to say have an easy way to search by album title, or artist, or song title, etc, exclusively. I don’t want to see songs titled Incubus when I’m looking for just the band.
3. Along lines with 2, I like when selecting an artist if their entire discography is listed by year and album type (album vs EP vs single, etc). I’m not 100% tied to that kind of layout, but generally speaking I’d like some kind of logical browsing instead of just algorithm searches.
What would be awesome is if there’s some aggregator website that has better browsing/searching that has links to Amazon music or whatever.
What does everyone else do?
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My music server is a low power PC that is passively cooled, so no moving parts ie. no noise, and it feeds the music to my HiFI amplifier.
Once you have the music files you can do everything, for me the choice is the Logitech Media Server. It is free piece of software that lets a computer act as a music server, the player can be a physical unit or it can be a piece of software you run on the server or on a different computer. And you can control the playback using a web browser or a dedicated app + if you get a physical player that of course has a remote.
Have a decent library of burned discs plus bought/free digital content that I've uploaded into their servers.
I play a mix of streamed and my library. Interface is terrible on the phone, but perfectly fine to yell at a dingus, "play nightmare before Christmas soundtrack."
RIP Bandcamp.
Barring that, I try to get music on Amazon Digital because their MP3s are DRM-free
I use YouTube to listen to artists I'm unfamiliar with or get recommended but if you're looking for stuff that is mainly licensed for territories other than your home country and/or an English-speaking audience you can encounter difficulties trying to find uploads to listen to
Rock Band DLC | GW:OttW - arrcd | WLD - Thortar
You can't give someone a pirate ship in one game, and then take it back in the next game. It's rude.
my favorite is depending on how you download your amazon digital mp3s, the file titles can be completely fucked up (like somebody dropped a GUID into them) and/or the mp3s will be missing metadata. don't know if that's a thing with only certain albums, and/or issues with what version of the amazon music app you have, but its a real pita. happened to me on my last two purchases from amazon and it really was a pain to fix.
Yeah, it can't be real weird to get to working download link.
I did find a site I like to browse though: MusicBrainz. I forgot I used their app for fixing meta data for some of the older stuff in my collection, and their website is a nice place to see discographies and release options. For bigger bands also often has links to the Amazon/iTunes/other purchase locations.
I'm hoping they just take the profitable company and let it keep making profits, but I am worried for sure.