Hi

You can get high quality tracks from http://hdtracks.com.

Enjoy
--FC


On Nov 18, 2010, at 8:53 PM, Michael Thurman wrote:

> ok the problem is where do you buy higher resolution music? sacd is dead as 
> is dvda because the playback equipment was so overpriced so what's better 
> than cd that I can get my hands on, especialy music i actually want to listen 
> to. most of todays' music isn't worth my time to listen to. I don't care to 
> listen to gangster rap or the g this and g that trash lol I like music that 
> is music and the for the most part forgot how tw to do that sometimes  in the 
> 90s. the last new cd I bought was kelly pickler, before that was a 
> replacement for my rsh presto disc that got lost god knows where
> 
> On Nov 18, 2010, at 1:06 PM, Scott Granados wrote:
> 
>> CD disks do not necessarily sound better than downloads.
>> 
>> It depends on how much compression is used and I'm highly skeptical as to 
>> what the human ear can detect anyway.
>> 
>> I see value in the digital verses analog discussion but not in one digital 
>> verses another.  The ear is not nearly as good and the brain is even 
>> stranger when it comes to audio signal processing.
>> 
>> The whole CD thing is over stated.  Remember that the sample rate of a 
>> standard CD is only 44.1 khz meaning that you fall way in to the audio range 
>> and you don't nearly have enough samples per wave.  If you like listening to 
>> sawtooth waves that's fine but for musicality not so good.  You're way in to 
>> the audio range when you get to that 10 points per wave point and I'm not 
>> convinced that's even enough to accurately represent an analog wave.  The 
>> newer higher sample rate recording methods, even with compression in my ear 
>> sound better than old slow bit rate CD but thqt's me.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> On Nov 17, 2010, at 10:32 PM, Sarah Alawami wrote:
>> 
>>> lol. Yeah youare one of the very few throw backs. Hehahaha! Just giviing 
>>> you a hard time because I can.
>>> anyways 99 C is plenty for a track in my opinion and hte quality is just 
>>> fabulious on a regular system.
>>> 
>>> Take care.
>>> 
>>> S
>>> 
>>> On Nov 17, 2010, at 20:26, Michael Thurman <kb7...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> I thought that i tunes let you download as many times as you want once you 
>>>> pay for a track... my annoyance is I tunes doesn't have a refresh my 
>>>> library option so if you have paid for tracks it remembers and replaces 
>>>> them if you loose them I shouldn't have to keep track of every track i ave 
>>>> purchased in order to get them back. I also think that 99c a track is 
>>>> still too much, no cheaper to buy an album worth of tracks and I don't 
>>>> even get a disc. real cds still sound better than downloads a home,  of 
>>>> course i still enjoy my vinyl collection as well so I'm a throwback
>>>> of course i still have a 2 channel pioneer system sitting here in front of 
>>>> me  pioneer amp bose  2.1 bookshelf speakers, technics turntable ect lol :)
>>>> 
>>>> On Nov 15, 2010, at 1:32 AM, Neil Barnfather - TalkNav wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> Ricardo,
>>>>> 
>>>>> for me its the quality of the compression from the download that is the 
>>>>> issue that keeps me buying CD's.
>>>>> 
>>>>> When I can get a download at a higher rate, up in the 700kbps range I'll 
>>>>> be happier, and one that let's me download the item within reason as many 
>>>>> times as I like, unlike Apple.
>>>>> 
>>>>> At this time most downloads are 320kbps or less, often less, and yet I 
>>>>> rip in double this.
>>>>> 
>>>>> can I hear the difference, not always, but often yes, granted not on my 
>>>>> iPhone headset, but on a good quality home entertainment system, or 
>>>>> keeping with the spirit of the conversation of cars, in the back of my 
>>>>> Merc S Classs yes, it certainly is notable.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Its essential that the download providers get their act together and up 
>>>>> the quality of the download, and allow me to download my collection say 
>>>>> at least twice a year or so in case I accidently delete something.
>>>>> 
>>>>> once I can do this I'll switch to downloads only.
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> On 14 Nov 2010, at 07:57, Ricardo Walker wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>> Its all ready changing.  People aren't buying CDs anymore.  I dare you to 
>>>>> find a record store.  lol.  15 years ago, they were everywhere.  The 
>>>>> majority of people download music.  By next year, music albums 
>>>>> downloaded, will pass albums sold in stores.  the change is coming.  
>>>>> People will cling to the CD like they clung to the cassette tape.  But 
>>>>> once people stop building the hardware to play them, people will have no 
>>>>> choice but to move on.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Ricardo Walker
>>>>> rwalker...@gmail.com
>>>>> Twitter, Skype, and AIM: rwalker296
>>>>> Google Voice: 1-646-450-2197
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> On Nov 13, 2010, at 4:47 PM, Chenelle Hancock wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> hi, heather, eric, sara and everyone on the list
>>>>>> I have to say that for over eighteen years or so i have been using cd's  
>>>>>> as my mode of music choice. however, it has only been the past eight 
>>>>>> months or so that i have getting my music through  itunes and 
>>>>>> transferring my music library of over 500  cd's to my computer. i still 
>>>>>> have them all though. due to the fact i still infer that  technology can 
>>>>>> crash at anytime and you have to have a back up to your back up. if you 
>>>>>> know what i mean.  also i  have relatives  who are still in the age of 
>>>>>> the stereo  system/ cd player age. so when we have party's we often  use 
>>>>>> someof my cd's to listen to etc...
>>>>>> i don't think that cd's will go out of date as fast as tape did back in 
>>>>>> the late to mid eighty's and early nineties.  despite the fact that i 
>>>>>> have saved some of my music to my external hard drive i have not stored 
>>>>>> all of it as of yet. but i do plann on doing so. 
>>>>>> chenelle
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Sent from my iPhone
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