Online music stores

**stek** · 8 July 2015, 22:32

Originally posted by Spoiler View Post

Where are the "kool kidz" buying their music online these days ?

Or are they streaming it - but I want to listen to it offline, so I'm not cool enough for streaming just yet.

Think the last stuff I bought was from Amazon ...

Buy? It's subscription now mate! Apple Music - pick song, album, etc, 'Make Available Offline'.....

**Spoiler** · 9 July 2015, 07:51

Originally posted by stek View Post

Buy? It's subscription now mate! Apple Music - pick song, album, etc, 'Make Available Offline'.....

Oh. I'll take a look, thanks.

What's occurring with DRM these days ? I stopped buying stuff on iTunes as it was a faff to play on other devices - I stream stuff locally from a Synology NAS to devices...

**jmo21** · 9 July 2015, 09:58

Spotify for me, £9.99 a month for offline listening.

**SimonMac** · 9 July 2015, 10:03

Originally posted by stek View Post

Buy? It's subscription now mate! Apple Music - pick song, album, etc, 'Make Available Offline'.....

Toying with Apple Music, I have a carefully crafted iTunes library with smart playlists that is picked up by my SONOS, always kept away from streaming but if the intergration with iTunes can be kept I might be a convert (although Apple Music has not SONOS support at the moment)

**MicrosoftBob** · 9 July 2015, 10:08

Originally posted by jmo21 View Post

Spotify for me, £9.99 a month for offline listening.

NAS box for me full of FLAC and MP3s, £0 a month for offline and online listening

**vetran** · 9 July 2015, 10:21

Originally posted by MicrosoftBob View Post

NAS box for me full of FLAC and MP3s, £0 a month for offline and online listening

+1

**unixman** · 9 July 2015, 10:33

1. Buy CD from Amazon
2. Rip it. Copy to all your players and car
3. Shove it in the attic

**vetran** · 9 July 2015, 10:37

Originally posted by unixman View Post

1. Buy CD from charity shop, poundland, reduced bin or Tesco
2. Rip it. Copy to all your NAS (which does the squeezeboxes) sync to mobile players
3. Shove it in the attic

close enough

**alphadog** · 9 July 2015, 11:02

1. Buy 2nd hand CDs from ebay/ratuken/amazon/etc
2. Dream about un-geoblocking a cheap foreign website where you can buy cheap flac's (that doesn't exist yet?)
3. Rip 2nd hand CDs to flac. Store on synology NAS with raid backstop
4. Play on hifi system via pi-dac+
5. Shove CDs in the attic

Online music stores