Not necessarily piracy, but I realise that it might be the only option.
I’m planning to get away from Spotify. Is there some good places to get music. I don’t mind paying for it. But I don’t want a subscription service. I just want to be able to give someone money in exchange for a product. And ideally a MP3 or something similar so I can use it offline and move the file between devices.
Does something like that exist somewhere?
you can purchase individual albums through the download store.
or you can buy a month of the unlimited download subscription and download everything you want
can be downloaded in either MP3 or lossless FLAC (though, don’t download above CD quality because you won’t hear the difference)there also may or may not be a set of resources out there under the name Firehawk52
Great. That seems perfect! Time to go spend some money I guess.
there’s Bandcamp if your favorite artists are on there, usually they allow download in exchange for money.
Bandcamp is nice because even if the album is $0 you can still add some money for the artist.
Similarly, many times albums will be pay what you can, so it can be nice spending $0 on an album.
Hit up your local thrift stores, they have tons of music cds, then rip them?
I check bandcamp first, as you get multiple file formats when you purchase something. Assuming I can’t find things on bandcamp, they are on Beatport 99.9% of the time.
Personally I avoid iTunes as I don’t want AAC files.
Is there a particular reason you avoid AAC files?
I’ve had some issues with AAC files not working in DAWs or DJ programs in the past
I just download my favorite music directly from YouTube with youtube-dl or something similar. It’s not pay-walled and it usually doesn’t even have ads on it.
