Some labels don't want to sell their mp3's to my country?

[Ms.Sivad]

If people bothered to pay for the music the quality would be better. Better remixers, better mastering and general better handling of files and media from a to z.

I'm sure some would still cut corners and cheapen out. I don't disagree though, the industry needs more legal customers.

i choose to pay music in physical form from now on.
it just worth it IMO, to have that physical vinyl or cd of the music you like.
with mp3, they can get corrupted together with died HDD or bad DVD.

You know, it sucks, but I've bought CD's with bad files on them. It's primarily been on compilations.

[SOLARSTONE]

That's weird, I've experimented when i tried to buy a tune from Trackitdown, Agnelli & Nelson - Holding Onto Nothing and couldn't got it 'cause of rights restrictions or something like that. It sux!!!

[Luconia]

I'm sure some would still cut corners and cheapen out. I don't disagree though, the industry needs more legal customers.



You know, it sucks, but I've bought CD's with bad files on them. It's primarily been on compilations.

eh? that's weird though...but maybe you got the bad copy. is there any way to return them?

That's weird, I've experimented when i tried to buy a tune from Trackitdown, Agnelli & Nelson - Holding Onto Nothing and couldn't got it 'cause of rights restrictions or something like that. It sux!!!

trackitdown is fuckin expensive! with all the conversion from pounds to RM...it's just so unacceptable!
whereas i can get the same track with same quality on a different download shop waay cheaper.
and talking about cheap, still beatport wins although not many in terms of variety.

[hollowman1]

5this is actually the first time i've heard of this problem maybe you should move lol

[Ms.Sivad]

eh? that's weird though...but maybe you got the bad copy. is there any way to return them?

Cannot return that which has been opened (store return policy ). And in one case, a friend of mine who had the same CD, we both found the same track(s) were re-encoded mp3, not lossless... so I guess thousands were printed that way.

And I agree, trackitdown is ridiculous... my cost: $2.45 for an mp3, wtf? Might as well just buy a wav for 40 cents more, and they're most expensive at trackitdown too.

[welders]

The biggest names and biggest tunes always get released on CD. It's the tracks that labels have less faith in that only make it to digital release. Take Anjunabeats for instance. A track wont even make it to a release unless they think its worth it. And if it makes it to a release then it gets a vinyl pressing, a CD and a digital download release. That's the way record labels should do it. Trouble is its too expensive for labels to do it for all their releases. Granted though.... CD's cost next to nothing to buy and burning the best quality WAVs to a CD for release would only take a little more time. Sometimes, as people have said, I think labels try to cut corners to keep costs down and to get more units out of the door. Sad times!

[KrisA]

The biggest names and biggest tunes always get released on CD. It's the tracks that labels have less faith in that only make it to digital release. Take Anjunabeats for instance. A track wont even make it to a release unless they think its worth it. And if it makes it to a release then it gets a vinyl pressing, a CD and a digital download release. That's the way record labels should do it. Trouble is its too expensive for labels to do it for all their releases. Granted though.... CD's cost next to nothing to buy and burning the best quality WAVs to a CD for release would only take a little more time. Sometimes, as people have said, I think labels try to cut corners to keep costs down and to get more units out of the door. Sad times!

They only release vinyl samplers today. So full vinyl releases are non existent. At present, CD releases are also non existent.

[SOLARSTONE]

trackitdown is fuckin expensive! with all the conversion from pounds to RM...it's just so unacceptable!
whereas i can get the same track with same quality on a different download shop waay cheaper.
and talking about cheap, still beatport wins although not many in terms of variety.

Yeah, its quite expensive but I got to recognize that i've never been desappointed about quality sound, so far all tunes I've bought from them are great, no re-encode problems or poor quality sound, I thinks it's worth.

[Luconia]

no, it still does not worth it imo...an artist/label should release the same quality mp3 to those download shops, then we'll talk business.

either than that, i'm boycotting trackitdown. period.

[eskape]

yea, try amazon.com.....djtunes.com......or ebay.com

[Tranzi]

Dont you know, back in the 'old-days' there was only one type of release the labels could do, hard copies as the internet was running best at dial-up speeds etc.
Until the birth of the digital era, you name it, faster internet broadband, better more advanced ripping programs and 'mp3' sharing, everything took an online route.
These clubbing tunes will only from now on get a online release as it is much more convienient for artists to send labels tunes through digital methods, mainly using a secure ftp (the way djs tend to share promos) and a great money saver for the labels which they encode 192, 320 'from-into' for distribution. (Might explain a Sivad problem lol)
All they need is hdd space and a licence.
Well the mainstream commercial stuff will always stay as CDs or hardcopy releases as they have the $$ and the audience, usually big name record companies deal with these.