If you like classical music, the Philadelphia Orchestra has an online music store that sells recordings of their live concerts in MP3 & FLAC format (yes, lossless downloads!). I have downloaded a few things, and it all works well and sounds great. Very progressive -- I wish more orchestras would do this.
See: http://www.thephiladelphiaorchestra.com/ (The Philadephia Orchestra has always been out in front: it was the first symphonic orchestra to make electrical recordings (1925), the first to perform its own commercially sponsored radio broadcast (1929), the first to perform on the soundtrack of a feature film (Paramounts The Big Broadcast of 1937), the first to appear on a national television broadcast (1948), the first American orchestra to record the complete Beethoven symphonies on compact disc (1988), and the first major orchestra to give a live cybercast on the internet (1997).) Turns out that they partnered with a site called www.nugs.net, which makes most of its money selling downloads of live rock concerts of bands like the Dave Matthews Band, Metallica, Phish, the Grateful Dead, Barenaked Ladies, Govt Mule, Widespread Panic and the String Cheese Incident. (Presumably, also in lossless formats?) So, from Beethoven to Barenaked Ladies... -- muski ------------------------------------------------------------------------ muski's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3670 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=31616 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
