When I am building computers or editing video or processing photographs or not watching the boob tube I am normally listening to music. I have purchased a massive amount of albums and a few 8 tracks.. yeah I am that old... and then I have replaced those with cassette tapes. I used to have both an Akai and Technics and Denon cassette players.... they had the ability to select the track you wanted by listening for the gap between songs. Totally future mode. Then geeee... the paradigm changed and there were CDs. Now I had to go buy all that music over again. I think the first CD I bought was Vivaldi.... after that Jethro Tull. I remember a time when I had almost a thousand CDs. Once the ability to save music on computer came into being at a rate that you could save music in a reasonable amount of space on a hard drive.... HAH... HAHAHAHAHA... What we thought was a large amount of space is ridiculously small now... and guess what... What we have now is going to look pathetic in five years. Well... SO I ripped all my CDs at 128kbps... OOPS.. well its good and you don't lose too much data / fidelity... but really you do.... Here is a link to help you understand..
http://superuser.com/questions/295970/why-rip-cds-or-download-music-at-high-bitrates-eg-beyond-192-kbps
So... had to go back and re-rip everything at a higher bit rate... 320 is where I try to go .. some things are not available at that rate but I try... which brings me to this... I looked around for a good place to buy music instead of paying massive amounts for CDs that I would just be ripping and tossing the CDs... I found this site.
www.legalsounds
Excellent site....
Tons of music... They had a lot of things I wanted and couldn't find anywhere...
Tangerine Dream... Yum!
Music that was never released in the US.
Stan Ridgway...
There is so much here that it will take forever to go through it all.
Its worth a good long look... a very long look... look some more....
I could quote some favorite artists.. and what they say about music and their music . but I won't .. Most are pretentious asses... those that aren't usually keep quiet and let you enjoy their music. I try and lose myself in music.. I don't want to listen to a song and say.. Oh.. thats the group that thinks this.. instead of just enjoying the music.
I think I most enjoy sharing music ( not literally ) with friends.. Where we will sit and listen to something and then someone will say..well listen to this.. which leads to another group and another band... You find the most interesting things when you're not looking or just having fun...
There are other web sites out there.. there are sharing web sites too.. I avoid them as you never know what you're really downloading... Also cloud based sites are cool.. Groove Shark.. there are others...
You never know what someone likes till you sit down and start talking about it all....
Jumbled thoughts...
Going to listen to something...
Cool!
and my fav music player
