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hi guys just heard the news, downloadable wav files at beatport! fucking excellent, no more crappy mp3, no more waiting for postage , buy your money and press enter! the whole catalog is aviable.

i bet they just converted the mp3s to wavs. cant see through every track and requesting a wav from the label/producer/

im also 99% positive some of the beatport tracks are recorded from vinyl.

jeskola wrote:i bet they just converted the mp3s to wavs. cant see through every track and requesting a wav from the label/producer/

who says they don't receive them as .wavs in the first place?

jeskola wrote: im also 99% positive some of the beatport tracks are recorded from vinyl.

again, why couldn't these have been recorded from vinyl as .wav and converted to .wav from there?

jeskola wrote:im also 99% positive some of the beatport tracks are recorded from vinyl.

That's great, means I don't have to do this at my place

jeskola wrote:i bet they just converted the mp3s to wavs. cant see through every track and requesting a wav from the label/producer/

im also 99% positive some of the beatport tracks are recorded from vinyl.

No offense man, but did you just wake up on the wrong side of the bed and decide to rip an announcement that sounds great.

Beatport specifically says on their site that all tracks are masters direct from the labels, and that they do not "treat" the files in any way. So i think it is entirely plausible to think that they are "true" wav files.

And what exactly makes you think they are recorded from vinyl? And if for some reason they were, its most likely because they label did he recording...not beatport.

I'm sorry but I really cannot see a label doing this. It would be easier for them to rip MP3's straight from the master/CD the track was sent to them on for distribution, rather than go to the effort of recording a track in real time. I certainly wouldnt bother.

Well I think it is great news. The tracks I am in the process of getting them are in wav. format. I dont know what all the other lables send though.

If you read the Beatport FAQ, they get digital masters in WAV format from the labels. From there, Beatport encodes MP3/MP4 versions from the WAV file, so they already have all the WAV files on hand.

It was always a question of bandwidth, and they probably upgraded their servers using the price-hike from a while back, so now you can get WAVs.

For $1 extra per track.

I'll stick with 320K.

The last set I did, I used .AIFF converted from Beatport MP3s in Ableton Live 4 and a punter actually commented that my set sounded a lot punchier, clearer (and better) than the vinyl set before.

The sound quality of the Beatport MP3s is generally great imho.

Great site.

synthpopkid wrote:The last set I did, I used .AIFF converted from Beatport MP3s in Ableton Live 4 and a punter actually commented that my set sounded a lot punchier, clearer (and better) than the vinyl set before.

The sound quality of the Beatport MP3s is generally great imho.

Great site.

I would agree too. I think it could depend on how much music you buy as to whether ot not its worth an extra $1 per track. If you only get a couple trakc sper week, its not that big of a deal. lol, remember when we all use to spend $10 for 1 vinyl? ohh, the old days. how quickly we forget.

the grammar in this thread is totally magic

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