Digital release quality

[nerdyluke]

Hi,
I'm willing to buy the Urban Ethics LP in flac or wav for best quality, and I found a couple sites like http://boomkat.com/downloads/409802-coki-urban-ethics , http://www.beatport.com/release/urban-ethics/371493 and http://www.digital-tunes.net/releases/urban_ethics . Now I thought I'd just go digital-tunes since they're the cheapest, but I found this so I'm a bit hesitant here :s I know I'm being a bit picky on this one but I'd like to be sure I get what I pay for.

Has any of you bought this LP in flac or wav on these sites or another and can vouch for the quality of the release?

[Cybertrash]

Beatport's pretty legit, only one I've had experience with.

[Soulstep]

The shops get there music off the distributors, if it sounds bad in one shop it will sound bad in all of them (probably)

[1point5]

Sound quality on download stores' streaming preview is always low to make you have to buy the record for full quality, the actual quality of the downloaded file afterwards should be just as good from any of them. My personal favourite for digital releases is Juno Download

[Osario]

i've bought from digital tunes many a time, great store. the only time i had an issue was with sp:mc & lx one - hunted, but that was the same with every download store

[nerdyluke]

roight thanks guys now I feel a bit more confident buying on digital-tunes

[Raggles]

I'm sure most sites would give you a refund if you weren't satisfied with the quality.

Not sure about beatport as far as customer service but the files i've gotten from them are as good as anything else.

WAV all DAY

[incnic]

beatport are really bad what an evil company
i ahte their site and i dont think they are even british?

always buy boomkat

i heard a rumour that beatport run all teh tunes through a online limiter to squash the msuic to teh same volume...

[xana]

Beatport has always been my go to site. you can choose the download quality too usually

[Terpit]

beatport are really bad what an evil company
i ahte their site and i dont think they are even british?

always buy boomkat

i heard a rumour that beatport run all teh tunes through a online limiter to squash the msuic to teh same volume...

You hate them because you heard a rumour? I find Beatport much easier to use and I had a very quick polite response when I had a problem (I closed the downloading program when it wasn't finished )

[Func]

Beatport are way too expensive. You know something is wrong when it's cheaper to buy the vinyl release than the digital.

[Soulstep]

beatport are really bad what an evil company

prices are extortion
but they give labels a much better % than juno

[Terpit]

Not come across any other site that sells AIFF files unfortunately

[syrup]

fuck beatport

[1point5]

Beatport probably does look the nicest/have the best preview player of the main download stores... but they are a bit expensive and the genre categories are very US-centric. There also seems to be a ridiculous amount of tracks listed under the wrong genres.

[scspkr99]

Not come across any other site that sells AIFF files unfortunately

If you buy AIFF FLAC ALAC or WAV you have the uncompressed file changing the codec through a converter like XLD results in a bit perfect replica of the original.

Beatport charge an extra £1 for WAV per track it's a fucking scandal when Boomkat charge $2 per album and Juno I think charges the same price.

[nerdyluke]

Beatport charge an extra £1 for WAV per track it's a fucking scandal when Boomkat charge $2 per album and Juno I think charges the same price.

ya even digital-tunes sells wav/flac/320 for the same price, but it seems beatport have a bit more choice than d-t

[Terpit]

AIFF files are tagged correctly, you cant edit WAV files (or at least i dont know how to). having AIFFs makes things so much easier to navigate when using serato coz it already has artist, label etc

[Pistonsbeneath]

Digital-tunes waves of 24th century ep were the same as everywhere else and its surely the same for everyone

often people just dont spend the money to get them to sound right

[nerdyluke]

AIFF files are tagged correctly, you cant edit WAV files (or at least i dont know how to). having AIFFs makes things so much easier to navigate when using serato coz it already has artist, label etc

I just use foobar to tag my files (works with wav or any other format).