Where do you get your digital music from?

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Where do you get your digital music from online?

iTunes
0
No votes
Beatport
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59%
Juno Download
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23%
Track It Down
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Digital-Tunes
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Other (Please state)
4
18%
 
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I am doing a little market research at the moment...
Was just wanting to see where people bought their electronic music (ie. drum & bass, electro, experimental, dubstep, breaks) from online.
Maybe a little something about why you go there too. There is a poll but if your shop isn't there then could you say where you go.
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normally i get it from ur mom
now i have said that....

boomkat 80%
juno 20%

i fuckign hate beatport, its really fuckign ghey aslo overpriced.
iv never heard of 'digitaltunes' or 'trackitdown'
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digitaltunes is pretty goog

boomkat rulez
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Lol im totally not suprised all ur music comes from boomkat nic.

I like boomkat's player wayyyy better. listening to the entire tune first makes a big difference.
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boomkat and bleep
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beatport standard. I dont understand other shops..
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I do actually get most of mine from beatport. i find its way quicker to use and browse and the selections are more in line with my taste than say something like boomkat. Also the player loads way quicker.

but the player would be better if it let you listen to the whole track like on Boomkat. The boomkat one is slower though.

Juno download is fucking shiteful. so slow to use and browse. just terrible.
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bleep and bandcamp

rcrdlbl is good too for free stuff
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I get mine from Amick

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mrj wrote:I like boomkat's player wayyyy better. listening to the entire tune first makes a big difference.
Wh-wh-what?

That's it - I'm checking out Boomkat. Shits me to tears that I can't hear the whole track on Beatport.

Also, another thing about Beatport that really annoys me is that "Recent Releases" tab or whatever it is, isn't recent at all. FFS, how hard is to get that thing to auto-fill, there's 2009 releases on the second page of the DNB "recent" section.

Boomkat.... BOOM!

PS: I use Bigpond Music for non-dance orientated music. iTunes pisses me off. 256kbps, more expensive, and DRM protected - bigpondmusic.com is not any of these, but does have a smaller range (still got most popular hip-hop and rock though).
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^ Boomkat does have a slow player... doesn't play all of the first tune I looked at either....

EDIT: other tunes seem to play fine, but what's with the lack of listing or searching by genre? Is this against the site's too-cool-for-fools ethos?
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ghetto kitty wrote:I get mine from Amick

:lol:
receiving stolen goods tbh

name and shame
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no, he pays for it.

I just rub my harddrive on his and things transfer by osmosis.

see, i like science!
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Direkt wrote:^ Boomkat does have a slow player... doesn't play all of the first tune I looked at either....

EDIT: other tunes seem to play fine, but what's with the lack of listing or searching by genre? Is this against the site's too-cool-for-fools ethos?
This is deffo what I don't like about Boomkat. I find it incredibely hard to find stuff I actually like. And each tune has a lengthy review that sounds like it was written by someone from 3000.
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mrj wrote:
Direkt wrote:^ Boomkat does have a slow player... doesn't play all of the first tune I looked at either....

EDIT: other tunes seem to play fine, but what's with the lack of listing or searching by genre? Is this against the site's too-cool-for-fools ethos?
This is deffo what I don't like about Boomkat. I find it incredibely hard to find stuff I actually like. And each tune has a lengthy review that sounds like it was written by someone from 3000.
Boomkat reviews are actually written by a robot that is programmed to write like Mary Anne Hobbes.

I think that's a fact.
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who reads the reviews anyway? nothing wrong with boomkat, it's easy. you all suck at the internet. :P
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Beatport, drum & bass arena, track it down and juno
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so you actually own these digital downloads?
with itunes etc you dont
not sure about beatport or the others mentioned here.
http://www.zdnet.com/blog/bott/who-owns ... t-you/2831
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I thought itunes changed their drm conditions?

Used to be that when you bought a track it was usually in .aac format and unconvertable, meaning you could only play it within an apple program (itunes or quicktime) or on an apple personal player (ipod or iphone). This setup effectively meant that apple retained ownership of anything bought from itunes

Now you can convert anything (as far as I'm aware) to .mp3 format and do whatever you like with it, legally of course. Granted the audio quality is generally sub standard, but you own the file nonetheless
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'King Night' is their defining statement, eleven tracks of devastating, slo-mo MPC drum fills worthy of Araab Music, fused to nuclear synth bursts delivered with an achingly blank insouciance, all smeared in acetone-wet MDMA and left to degrade in a Michigan basement until it's nerves are permanently polarised, fluctuating between extreme, saccharine euphoria and melancholy misanthropy. Inside you'll find the revamped 808-rolling genius of 'Redlights' from their 'Yes, I Smoke Crack' debut 7", the slow nosebleed beauty of 'Traxx', sounding like Seefeel on a codeine overdose, next to the narco-saturated E and E-esque synth saturation of 'Sick', and the supremely uncomfortable MBV intensity of 'Release Of The Boar'
boomkat writing - lol
i quiet like reading them, thesaurus OD IMO

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nic wrote:
'King Night' is their defining statement, eleven tracks of devastating, slo-mo MPC drum fills worthy of Araab Music, fused to nuclear synth bursts delivered with an achingly blank insouciance, all smeared in acetone-wet MDMA and left to degrade in a Michigan basement until it's nerves are permanently polarised, fluctuating between extreme, saccharine euphoria and melancholy misanthropy. Inside you'll find the revamped 808-rolling genius of 'Redlights' from their 'Yes, I Smoke Crack' debut 7", the slow nosebleed beauty of 'Traxx', sounding like Seefeel on a codeine overdose, next to the narco-saturated E and E-esque synth saturation of 'Sick', and the supremely uncomfortable MBV intensity of 'Release Of The Boar'
boomkat writing - lol
i quiet like reading them, thesaurus OD IMO

:lol:
But King Night is a pretty awesome album though.
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yeh it is, just teh whole 'brand' they ahve is totes ghey.
+1 drag IMO (i like it)
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I like beatport, it's quick and easy. The follow artists/label function is really useful. I also go to trackitdown and Juno cause Beatport doesn't have everything.
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beatport & juno
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google lol
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slightly related:

bleep top 100 tracks of 2010 for fiddy bucks:

http://bleep.com/index.php?page=dynamic ... 100tracks2

some good music in there....
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peopel who liek beatport are genrally quiet mentally deficient IMO
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Generally direct from the artist or from dodgy russian sites
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dnbarena... but I rarely buy mp3s, get all my stuff on vinyl :) However in the cases I do buy something mp3 yeah it's dnbarena!
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nic wrote:peopel who liek beatport are genrally quiet mentally deficient IMO
um no, beatport may not have all of the tunes but the interface is the most user friendly out there... i miss going to record stores though...
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I'd say beatport is probably the least user friendly I've seen... dnbarena is so easy, dj download is pretty easy too... also beatport on anything except super fast internet is horrible. very VERY bloated website
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