so where do you guys get all your music from?

[Sephious 10+ year member]

Roger that. Borrowed a pair of $300 sennheiser audiophile headphones from a friend and used them for about a week. Anything 128 kbps and up you could easily tell a difference but once I hit around 256kbps anything above that sounded the same. Compared the 256kbps to a FLAC version I had sitting on my comp (a 4 minute song that is about 45MB large..) and no differences whatsoever. IMO lossless should stay in the recording studio, most you really need is 320kbps..
On a different note, I download all my stuff from thepiratebay & demonoid

It's all in the gear and the ear of the listener. Depending on the song, I can tell the difference between 320kbps and lossless with my home theater receiver and Shure studio monitoring headphones. While it's rare I do hear the difference, there are songs where I can reliably tell the difference between the two. Because of this, I do lossless. What's twice the size for the comfort that you know you're not hearing distortion caused by lossy codecs?

 

[Slayerx 10+ year member]

It's all in the gear and the ear of the listener. Depending on the song, I can tell the difference between 320kbps and lossless with my home theater receiver and Shure studio monitoring headphones. While it's rare I do hear the difference, there are songs where I can reliably tell the difference between the two. Because of this, I do lossless. What's twice the size for the comfort that you know you're not hearing distortion caused by lossy codecs?

In automobile applications, unless a small fortune has been invested like serious competitors do, the difference will be negligible

 

[Proximity 10+ year member]

I hope I'm not letting pandora out of the box but..

prostopleer.com

Wonderful website.

 

[Trancer 10+ year member]

Now that Frostwire has been rendered useless, Im trying out BearShare. Alot is Copyrighted so some of it doesnt download, but it will atleast let you know.

 

[TheUnderFighter 10+ year member]

Torrents. I'm a guy that downloads the full albums and more often than not, the entire discography. So torrents are the way to go for me.

For some reason many people like to get only 1 song or something, for that, I just search on google "'the title of the song I want'" mp3 download. And many times it comes from mp3bee or something like that.

 

[whitedragon551 5,000+ posts]

It's all in the gear and the ear of the listener. Depending on the song, I can tell the difference between 320kbps and lossless with my home theater receiver and Shure studio monitoring headphones. While it's rare I do hear the difference, there are songs where I can reliably tell the difference between the two. Because of this, I do lossless. What's twice the size for the comfort that you know you're not hearing distortion caused by lossy codecs?

I wasnt aware we were in a HT forum.

Lossless is garbage. The human ear cant hear any difference between a properly encoded 256kbps MP3 and a 320kbps MP3 or a lossless file like Flac. Its humanly impossible to detect a difference.

I use Waffles and What.CD for my music.

 

[Joseph7195 10+ year member]

I use Bitcomet, and browse Isohunt or PirateBay. I never really had a problem with those. They usually have a couple differrent versions of the same music(flac, mp3, ect) so you can usually find what you need. Make sure you read the comments before you download, it will give you a idea of the quality and everything else you might want to know before you download. Hope this helps!

 

[IonRL205 10+ year member]

Got 4 invites to waffles (private tracker for music) if anybody wants any...get em while invites are open. pm me cause i may not check here

 

[Calikid 5,000+ posts]

isohunt, pirate bay is what i use