How Do You Get Your Music?

I buy most of my music from Beatport. iTunes apparently doesn’t allow Malaysian citizens to buy music. The CDs in my local shops don’t sell music I want.

I find reading music blogs are the best way to discover new music. Most bloggers would have their own personal input towards a song and would generally describe a song well. Downside is that these bloggers often stick to a certain genre

I personally can’t stand itunes – I avoid dealing with it at all costs, hard when you consider I have a Macbook, an iPhone and several iPods. I scan through blogs for new music – download and quality check – sometimes the sound quality from blogs is suspect. If I’m buying my routine is scan beatport and create an order – sleep overnight and replay the list. Choose the ones I like and check amazon.com for them (usually they are cheaper than beatport), if not on amazon then I buy from beatport. The one reason I like digital is I don’t have to buy a mediocre album for a great song. I still listen to certain artists full albums but that’s for pleasure not business.

I use Beatport to look for stuff and then buy it in JunoDownload if they have it

Please post links for the websites suggested. That would be helpful to all. If someone can explain or write an article about Beatport that would be awesome. I have it on iPhone and find it very confusing to navigate. The website is just a cluster-f on my eyes too. I play thru the top downloads but after awhile it all sounds the same and I just give up.

My take with Beatport or Juno is focus on record labels and artists that I know – add them as favourites so its easy to find out when they release new stuff.
Also look at the “other people that bought this also bought…” sections, so you can see what other people with similar tastes to you are also buying.
I don’t bother with the genres on Beatport or Juno as they are rubbish – their definition of, say, progressive house is very different to mine.

Rob Francis, post: 2201 wrote: How do you go about finding the right style of music? I’ve tried to do this on Soundcloud but I struggle to find the right genre of music.

Hello Rob :);
I found that Searching for ‘Genres’ on Soundcloud wasn’t much good at all;
So I found that ‘Joining Groups’ gave me an Opportunity to Peruse (at my Leisure) Artists that I have never heard of; this has been Amazing for Dubstep (through the Massive Group); but for other Genres too; the ‘House’ group has over 60,000 Tracks; the ‘EDM – You Sexy Beat’ Group has over 47,000 Tracks; there are 2 Groups called ‘House Nation’ with 80,000 Tracks between them – but; if you just Search or Explore Groups (underneath the Log Out Button) you can take your pick – I don’t Join Groups unless they have at least 30,000 Tracks Available (showing their Popularity); and to be Honest; I Only listen to Tracks that are Downloadable; this is how I Build my Collection 🙂

@Emma aren’t all the downloadables on Soundcloud low quality? I suppose you could always ask for a better version?