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m.hulot

Posts: 14
Joined: Feb. 28 2011
From: 40 mile SE London

Lossless downloads

Hi
Does anyone know of any sites that offer lossless downloads of quality flamenco. Not looking for illegal sites as I am more than happy to pay.

REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date May 29 2013 18:12:08

tri7/5

Posts: 570
Joined: May 5 2012

RE: Lossless downloads (in reply to m.hulot)

I've been waiting on this since MP3's started to rule the world with their crappy compression. With bandwidth being what it is and cheap storage there isn't a reason audio downloads shouldn't be available in FLAC or the like as an alternative.

REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date May 29 2013 19:09:22

tele

Posts: 1464
Joined: Aug. 17 2012

RE: Lossless downloads (in reply to m.hulot)

I think recording youtube vids as MP3's is legal?

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REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date May 29 2013 19:52:03

Ruphus

Posts: 3782
Joined: Nov. 18 2010

RE: Lossless downloads (in reply to m.hulot)

Lately I have been converting my CDs to FLAC files for to have it all available for a Logitech Squeezebox ( the musicbox you always dreamed of).
[ So if you have questions on which SW to use for conversion and tagging, just ask. There exist very good ones as shareware.]

Getting my brain wrapped around this highly versatile music playing device and how to fire it up while the online initializing was impossible because of websites blocked from here ( no pun intended ) required extensive research on the internet.

It showed that many of the squeezebox hi-fi aficionados have terrabytes of FLACs in their collections.
That would be many thousands of ripped CD albums and I doubt that they had all so largely invested into discs.

There exist internet suppliers who led you select what you want. Most are working on legal subscription.
If I understood that correctly one can not only listen but also download the stream.
However, I havn´t tried yet eventhough the Squeezebox being capable of receiving. ( The local internet throughput wouldn´t suffice anyway, I suppose.)

I guess any internet radio connectable to your computer should do, but you better make sure about it first.

You might find the answer on corresponding forums.
This is one of them: http://forums.slimdevices.com

Cheers,

Ruphus

REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date May 30 2013 9:16:38