Places to buy WAVs?

[baldmosher]

Rolling on from the MP3s thread, I can only find JunoDownload who will sell WAVs. This is shit, as it means any release not available on JunoDownload is out of my reach.

There must be somewhere else I can shop?!?!

Specifically looking for vicious drum and bass like Spor, Current Value, Ewun, Audio, etc.

[dannybee]

There's always FLAC

http://www.boomkat.com/

Always a pucker selection at Boomkat

[dannybee]

Oh and Beatport has WAV files Also

http://www.beatport.com

Nice UI too!

[baldmosher]

Beatport is WELL expensive for WAVs. Great selection though.

[baldmosher]

I've been relying mainly on:

http://www.digital-tunes.net - pretty good selection, and WAV the same price as MP3 at about £1.19 a track

http://www.junodownload.com/ - really good selection but a bit pricey at £1.99 for WAV tracks. The "buy whole release" option saves you a bit on that though, knocking about 1/4 off the total price.

http://www.addictech.com - US site so very cheap but not that great a selection of what I'm looking for.

[Magma]

There's always FLAC

http://www.boomkat.com/

Always a pucker selection at Boomkat

FLAC should do the job nicely...

[baldmosher]

FLAC should do the job nicely...

FLAC can fuck right off.

!!

[Magma]

Haha!

Have you tried getting a FLAC for testing purposes... obviously only you can make the choice really, and at 79p or something for one tune to test (or maybe £~1.50 on one FLAC and one WAV of something), it's not that big a deal?

I've always been very happy with FLACs..

[baldmosher]

Haha!

Have you tried getting a FLAC for testing purposes... obviously only you can make the choice really, and at 79p or something for one tune to test (or maybe £~1.50 on one FLAC and one WAV of something), it's not that big a deal?

I've always been very happy with FLACs..

I'm sure there's not that much audible difference but if I'm going to get sub-WAV music, I don't want to pay for it. I've followed that philosophy all my life - as soon as I bought my first CD player I bought everything I ever wanted on CD. It was worth every penny because the music was so rich and hiss-free. I still swapped tapes with friends though and discovered (and eliminated) hundreds of bands this way. I ended up spending all my spare cash, probably £5000+ on CDs between 1998 and 2002.

The record industry moving to MP3 just stopped me finding new music, the joy went out of it as I couldn't buy CDs any more, but could download entire discographies for free (which I hardly ever listened to) and I was getting horrible compressed versions, but it cost me nothing. (I'm convinced that we have Metallica to thank for this.)

Then I discovered Amazon previews, Pandora and Last.fm, and through them I discovered I could just explore new music once again, wihtout anyone else's help, and that's how I discovered most of the bands over the last 4 years, and thanks to w.a.y., I've started buying music again. I still prefer to buy a CD (most DnB mix CDs come with an unmixed bonus disc) but the next best thing is WAV.

That said, maybe FLAC is a bit of a halfway house but I still feel like I'm being cheated out of perfection just because someone is too lazy to get it sorted. Indeed, Current Value's last release was 48KHz WAV (i.e. SACD quality). Fuck me, now that IS progress.