From where should I download my music???

[JIMV]

Can also be extremely expensive as well. A decent audiophile record deck can cost upto $1000 USD or more, just for the deck. Not including all the other things required, like amps, cables, speakers, stands, etc. One's desired music might not be available on vinyl either.

I believe that CD digital beats the pants off vinyl until one spends a lot of money on the vinyl front end. A lot of money being around $10K. (one caveat...No compressed digital file sounds as good as a modest vinyl system set up right and playing a well recorded record). To do vinyl right one needs a table, arm, cartridge, phono amp, cables, records, cleaners, setup gear, etc, etc...all that before one even gets to the receiver.

 

[rui-no-onna]

Just for info, if you are looking for a very high quality portable player for better than CD quality music, a company called HiFi Man sells one that does nothing but music but it does it very well and has a quality Hi-Rez DAC

Amazon.com: Hi-Fi Man - HM-801 - Portable Music Player: MP3 Players & Accessories

Way beyond my price range. Think I'll stick with what I have.

On a side note, it appears what I have is actually pretty decent. Made an interesting observation over the weekend. I was listening to music from the Sony Ericsson Live Walkman with a pair of Sennheiser HD202 cans but the Walkman was running out of battery so switched to a Galaxy S instead. Was quite surprised to find sound quality on the Galaxy S to be much better than the Live Walkman. Tried playing the same file on the iPhone 4 and I found the iPhone to be more or less on par with the Live Walkman. The Galaxy S sounded better than either, at least to my untrained ear. Totally wasn't expecting that.

I've listened to music on the Galaxy S 4G and Nexus S before but never really compared them with my other devices. Was considering getting a Captivate (AT&T's version of the Galaxy S) to root and play around with ICS but nixed the idea in favor of waiting for the SGS2 to drop in price. With this recent observation, I think I'll just grab a Captivate in lieu of the SGS2.

 

[EarlyMon]

Hating to go on a tangent in a great thread, but I gotta be that guy.

Making copies of music you bought for your personal consumption on different devices is protected in the USA by law, and I think that I am safe saying that that extends to other countries.

Indeed, you bought a license to use that music.

However, if you loose all copies and hit the internet to replenish your copy for free, you just crossed over into engaging in illegal distribution and that's the part you can't defend against in court. And the RIAA is ever watchful.

That's all completely different in China where mikedt lives, so check your local laws. What I've described applies to most of us, so please exercise caution in the face of the law.

OK, now that I have been that guy, let me make up a little.

If you have a library of Apple lossless music and don't want to transcode it to something smaller, 3rd party players are your friend. Meridian will handle those for sure, and I think Rockplayer and Moboplayer will as well. (I used to know that answer for FLAC and ogg vorbis, but I forgot. I think that those are handled...)

AAC is a proper free codec, if your version of Android won't handle it, again, Meridian and the like will. Tags were already covered, I can't add to that.

Hopefully I didn't duplicate too much info there.

As a huge Magnatunes fan, I can chip in another resource, free and legal -

Royalty Free music downloads | Jamendo - Jamendo

Last I checked, MP3s only, but a great place to check for out of the way artists and some great music. I have a number of piano solos from there, wonderful performances.

Hope this helps!

 

[JIMV]

Way beyond my price range. Think I'll stick with what I have.

On a side note, it appears what I have is actually pretty decent. Made an interesting observation over the weekend. I was listening to music from the Sony Ericsson Live Walkman with a pair of Sennheiser HD202 cans but the Walkman was running out of battery so switched to a Galaxy S instead. Was quite surprised to find sound quality on the Galaxy S to be much better than the Live Walkman. Tried playing the same file on the iPhone 4 and I found the iPhone to be more or less on par with the Live Walkman. The Galaxy S sounded better than either, at least to my untrained ear. Totally wasn't expecting that.

I've listened to music on the Galaxy S 4G and Nexus S before but never really compared them with my other devices. Was considering getting a Captivate (AT&T's version of the Galaxy S) to root and play around with ICS but nixed the idea in favor of waiting for the SGS2 to drop in price. With this recent observation, I think I'll just grab a Captivate in lieu of the SGS2.

That is the point I was trying to make, unsuccessfully. Today's iPOD and iPHONE share music software at least a decade old. Many phones, including android phones, play music much better than the Apple products. I know my Droid III does and I know it is not alone.