Buying music from iTunes

I can’t confirm if this is a thing or not. However, I can confirm that 66.6% of all DJs I personally know are filthy pirates and play their stuff live anyway.

the reason i wouldnt buy tunes of itunes is… its only 256kps rather than 320. I cant say for 100%… but as far as i know if you purchase music…you can do what you want with it but you cant resell it.

Groschi, post: 32290, member: 3845 wrote: I wouldn’t really worry about quality at iTunes. AAC is a younger and more advanced format than mp3 and files bought from iTunes (~256 kbit/s average bitrate, slightly varying) should compare very well to Lame –v0 (that’s how amazon, emusic and many others encode their files) or 320kbit/s mp3 files.
Actually, blind listening tests done some time ago by the hydrogenaudio community have shown that all common audio codecs in VBR mode (even crappy wma) are sufficent to reach transparency at reasonable average bitrates of 200-320 kbps.

You are not wrong Groschi.
Actually the sound quality (see Frauenhofer site) of 256kps AAC is dynamically slightly better than 320kps mp3, but yes blind listener tests did not reveal any difference.
However 50% is always believing in what you do and some people feel only comfy with wav… it will always be like that and there are numerous threads about it.

For me: I buy music on iTunes all the time.

iTunes is a wonderful place to buy music. Their selection could be better for DJ’s though. I always recommend beatport as you get a lot of selection aimed at DJ’s specifically.

Steve Turner, post: 32277, member: 4363 wrote: Hey guys,

I have just started my DJ journey and am beginning to amass my music library.

However I am a bit un-certain on where to buy my music from. I have heard of sites like Beatport & Juno but was planning on buying the majority of my music from iTunes due to it being a bit cheaper until I heard that mixing music live in a club for example with iTunes purchased music was illegal due to some legal mumble jumble and that I could only use music purchased from DJ sites like Beatport.

Sounds a bit wierd but is this true?

Don’t want to spend hundreds only to find out I can’t play it live… ;(

Cheers

Steve, maybe this will answer your original question: SOURCE

rfb, post: 32389, member: 2662 wrote: I don’t know man, just yesterday I got some pretty unpopular / “undergroundy” deep house tracks off of itunes.

I can’t tell a difference between beatport 320 and itunes tracks, so I usually go for iTunes as Beatport is more expensive, even with a coupon code.

its really mad cau alot of people talk about wav beening to expensive and itunes having cheaper tracks… 10-15 years ago when people earned far far less… they had to pay on average £6 for a vinyl now they dont want to pay £1.30… were is the sense in that?

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The average beatport track is € 1,56, after adding German GST it’s € 1,85 (= GBP 1,50). A more recent/popular tune ways in at € 2,58 after GST. Now, assuming that you don’t hear any difference in quality (I know I don’t): Would you pay 2,58, or a maximum of 1,29 for the EXACT same thing? With the money saved, I can buy more tunes, go to clubnights, go to concerts…
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That aside: What is the use of citing how things were in the past? I don’t know dude, 50 years ago people paid to send other people letters. I don’t blame them for sending an email for free in the present.

But even THAT’s not the point. The point is simple micro-economics: offer and demand.