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More => Old Versions => JRiver Media Center 19 for Mac => Topic started by: iufinal4 on August 11, 2014, 12:55:13 pm
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Sorry in advance for the stupid question, but what happened to the "performer store"? How do you buy music? Thanks in advance for any tips.
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I buy music from iTunes, acoustic sounds,and soon from nativedsd. I may by several more CDs (Nimbus does not seem to offer higher rez downloads) but I am mostly media free these days.
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Bandcamp (http://bandcamp.com/) !! Pay the artist direct (almost^^). Flac and some 24bit same price as Mp3, sometimes very cheap pay as you want.
FlacMe (http://flacme.com/)
Qobuz (http://www.qobuz.com/) most of Europe, not for US
or the artist direct if they sell in lossless, many do
Amazon for used cds to rip once - I give most of my cds to my local library now, have too many.
Why would you want to buy Mp3s unless absolutely necessary, especially from itunes?! .. horrible codecs/compression. Can always convert a copy later for your phones.
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iTunes is just fine for popular music. Huge selection and easy purchase. The compression isn't a factor for many songs. I've never bought any jazz or classical from there though, doubt I will.
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+1 for Bandcamp, but I like weird indie and experimental music. Which bandcamp is great at.
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I'm not sure if Performer Store is in the Mac version. In the Windows version of MC you turn it on/off using Tools > Options > Services > Stores Shown in the Tree.
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missed this was in the mac forum, but you also can get apple lossless from Bandcamp. Not everything is marginal there are a lot of known names like Elliot Smith, and Sufjan Stevens but sure its not mainstream pop :) ... I have even bought country music at Bandcamp, there search does suck though .. hard to find stuff amongst so much. Easier to google an artist and add bandcamp to the search