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youtube rips r 128kbps absolute max. It's terrible. Anyone who actually seriously mixes or uses this shit is an idiot. Uk bass music is so reliant on low frequencies, high sound quality that you are seriously missing out on youtube. Its pretty useful for keeping up to date with dubs/ unreleased material but only as a marker so I can get the release on vinyl or digital when its out. For digital you are looking at about £1.30 for a 1411kbps single release which is pittance or about 7 quid for a only vinyl release like dmz or swamp81 and for that you get a lovely heavyweight fully mastered collectors item. P2P sites are the worst, straight up theft.

Shopping for tunes/ waiting for releases is also a great experience, OMSUK011 Unidentified/ Forseen came out today, I have been waiting for this one god knows how long and now im fucking stoked - cant wait to get home to get it on and piss off the neighbours. Each to their own but I get satisfaction out of supporting this small scene that gives me much enjoyment.

Walt Thizzney wrote:I Pirate everything, from movies to software to textbooks to anything else that is made by these extreme capitalist corporations , that love exploits the average consumer. Dubstep on the other hand, I support the creativity of these people working so hard to help shape and expand this thing we call electronic music; which we all have a passion for. It would be a crime, not to compensate these individuals for their efforts.

murky21 wrote:

illandnatti wrote: Doesn't iTunes quality end at 256kbps?

Nope - 128kbps absolute max. It's terrible. Anyone who actually seriously mixes or uses this shit is an idiot. Uk bass music is so reliant on low frequencies, high sound quality that you are seriously missing out on youtube. Its pretty useful for keeping up to date with dubs/ unreleased material but only as a marker so I can get the release on vinyl or digital when its out. For digital you are looking at about £1.30 for a 1411kbps single release which is pittance or about 7 quid for a only vinyl release like dmz or swamp81 and for that you get a lovely heavyweight fully mastered collectors item. P2P sites are the worst, straight up theft.

Shopping for tunes/ waiting for releases is also a great experience, OMSUK011 Unidentified/ Forseen came out today, I have been waiting for this one god knows how long and now im fucking stoked - cant wait to get home to get it on and piss off the neighbours. Each to their own but I get satisfaction out of supporting this small scene that gives me much enjoyment.

You download off of iTunes at 256kbps. If I cant find something thats a 320 elsewhere i'll very reluctantly purchase from there at 256.

WAV FTW

A surefire way to fill up your hard drives

LA_Boxers wrote: You download off of iTunes at 256kbps. If I cant find something thats a 320 elsewhere i'll very reluctantly purchase from there at 256.

erm my bad man, my bad. Work xmas party last night, very hungover im an idiot- thought it was talking about youtube rips.
yer - iTunes is 256kbps AAC which is better than a standard 256kbps mp3, and is all good.

brokedjs wrote: WAV FTW

A surefire way to fill up your hard drives

memory technology is going to go ballistic soon... just bought a 2TB USB 3.0 HDD for £95 not filling that badboy up for time!

murky21 wrote:

LA_Boxers wrote: You download off of iTunes at 256kbps. If I cant find something thats a 320 elsewhere i'll very reluctantly purchase from there at 256.

erm my bad man, my bad. Work xmas party last night, very hungover im an idiot- thought it was talking about youtube rips.
yer - iTunes is 256kbps AAC which is better than a standard 256kbps mp3, and is all good.

brokedjs wrote: WAV FTW

A surefire way to fill up your hard drives

memory technology is going to go ballistic soon... just bought a 2TB USB 3.0 HDD for £95 not filling that badboy up for time!

Got a link? Could do with one of those!

murky21 wrote:

LA_Boxers wrote: You download off of iTunes at 256kbps. If I cant find something thats a 320 elsewhere i'll very reluctantly purchase from there at 256.

erm my bad man, my bad. Work xmas party last night, very hungover im an idiot- thought it was talking about youtube rips.
yer - iTunes is 256kbps AAC which is better than a standard 256kbps mp3, and is all good.

brokedjs wrote: WAV FTW

A surefire way to fill up your hard drives

memory technology is going to go ballistic soon... just bought a 2TB USB 3.0 HDD for £95 not filling that badboy up for time!

No worries. I feel your pain with the hangover!! I proper lol at the little youtubers who rip shit at 128 then convert it to 320 when this has no effect what so ever on the actual quality of the track! Seen it done before alot.

Yeah 320s are always going to be around 10-15mb and WAVs about 50-70mb so with the increases in storage etc people should be moving on to WAVs i feel. Although they do cost slightly more dont they??

LA_Boxers wrote:

murky21 wrote:

LA_Boxers wrote: You download off of iTunes at 256kbps. If I cant find something thats a 320 elsewhere i'll very reluctantly purchase from there at 256.

erm my bad man, my bad. Work xmas party last night, very hungover im an idiot- thought it was talking about youtube rips.
yer - iTunes is 256kbps AAC which is better than a standard 256kbps mp3, and is all good.

brokedjs wrote: WAV FTW

A surefire way to fill up your hard drives

memory technology is going to go ballistic soon... just bought a 2TB USB 3.0 HDD for £95 not filling that badboy up for time!

No worries. I feel your pain with the hangover!! I proper lol at the little youtubers who rip shit at 128 then convert it to 320 when this has no effect what so ever on the actual quality of the track! Seen it done before alot.

Yeah 320s are always going to be around 10-15mb and WAVs about 50-70mb so with the increases in storage etc people should be moving on to WAVs i feel. Although they do cost slightly more dont they??

Generally add about 30p on the cost on a few sites

http://www.digital-tunes.net you can buy mp3/flac/wav for same price. Boomkat you pay only slightly more for flac, and trackitdown.net is 1.75 per wav, all not too bad

@brokedjs http://www.ebuyer.com/product/244504 pretty decent!

Not gonna lie I've pirated a shit-load of music, but when it comes to dubstep, personally the only way I can really enjoy is it on vinyl. There's not really much point downloading shit quality tunes thats gonna be played on my Ipod or PC.
So yeah, I think Dubstep is the only genre of music I haven't pirated.
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