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Hey,

Just wondering if anyone knows of any download stores that offer the option to download as a wav?

I know juno and some other dance music sites do but the tracks im after are not dance music, they are from a couple of film soundtracks I discovered on iTunes and want to sample.

The sites I have found with them on are only available in mp3 format.

Any help on this would be great as I'm eager to get started, the albums / soundtracks they are on are Buried and Saw 3D.

Cheers

Mike

Beatport, Beats Digital and probably many more (this is assuming the artist uploaded a .wav and not just an mp3 to start with). You often pay a bit of a premium for .wavs on those sites compared to mp3.

Some sites also offer the lossless FLAC format, which you can convert to a .wav without any quality loss and is usually in the region of 25-35% smaller filesize.

Cheers, any idea of any non dance music sites though? As they dont have soundtracks on beatport, juno, dj download etc.

I've checked hmv digital, play, amazon... all only offer mp3

I believe Itunes offers Apple Lossless (for some music in certain territories at a premium), which is their version of FLAC and could probably be converted to .wav or .aiff and wouldn't lose any quality (given it's an uncompressed, lossless format).

Otherwise, I don't know of any.

Converting a 320 Kbps mp3 back to a .wav would, in most circumstances, only lose a fraction of the quality of a .wav file and not be noticed by most casual listeners.

Cheers, will look out for that on iTunes, otherwise will have to convert mp3 back to a wav.

Mike Hindle wrote:Cheers, any idea of any non dance music sites though? As they dont have soundtracks on beatport, juno, dj download etc.

I've checked hmv digital, play, amazon... all only offer mp3

www.musiczeit.com offers FLAC/mp3,and has quite a bit of non-dance related stuff,like ambient etc....

bleep.com also has WAV downloads...

edit[ah sorry didn't read no dance]

33tetragammon wrote:http://www.musiczeit.com offers FLAC/mp3,and has quite a bit of non-dance related stuff,like ambient etc....

Yep, my more recent output* is on with them. Both FLAC and 256 mp3. I wish they would offer 320 mp3 at the reduced price. But it is a good service and there's some interesting less well known stuff on there.

* Search for Takla Makan

Mike Hindle wrote:Hey,

Just wondering if anyone knows of any download stores that offer the option to download as a wav?

I know juno and some other dance music sites do but the tracks im after are not dance music, they are from a couple of film soundtracks I discovered on iTunes and want to sample.

The sites I have found with them on are only available in mp3 format.

Any help on this would be great as I'm eager to get started, the albums / soundtracks they are on are Buried and Saw 3D.

Cheers

Mike

Easiest way imo is to order the cd... and have a ready-made wav for you... because the soundtracks you ask would not sell on beatport and others...

strangely enough in this day and age, your best option would still be to order the cd trough amazon or play.com
It's pretty amazing that it's almost 2011 and still lossless digital music downloads are not readily available (save on specialist sites like Beatport, and even then you pay a ridiculous premium)
You can probably buy the whole cd for the same price as it would cost you to buy one track as a lossless download

snakedogman wrote:strangely enough in this day and age, your best option would still be to order the cd trough amazon or play.com
It's pretty amazing that it's almost 2011 and still lossless digital music downloads are not readily available (save on specialist sites like Beatport, and even then you pay a ridiculous premium)

I agree... mp3 is still useful for portable players but otherwise it's almost a redundant format with the bandwidth and storage space now...