MP3Download costs

[Loose rivets]

Hi,

My kids have got me an MP3 player for me birthday. I managed to load a bit of the Mozart by Vladimir Horowitz that comes with XP. It sounds quite good. However, most and even the free time, that comes with it requires me to sign up for $10-15 a month. Far more than I will need.

I'm happy to pay a buck or two a track, but then don't want any pressure to buy each month. Is there a solution?

R

[DogfighterF22]

Try this site..

http://www.alltunes.com/en-index.shtml

:)

[Bushfiva]

R, I assume you realise you can copy music from your CDs onto the MP3 player?

[ORAC]

ClassicCat (http://www.classiccat.net/) Classic Cat is a directory with links to over 4800 free to download classical performances on the internet, sorted by composer and work.

http://music.download.com/ The premier source for free music, 75,425 free MP3s.

[Loose rivets]

Thanks for that folks. Yep, I did realise, but my CDs were just some of the things that disappeared when I sold my UK home.

I have repurchased some of the most valued recordings, but it's funny how wrong I can be on a first hearing. The Rubinstein version of the Nocturnes was based on hearing him play just one while driving home from NWI. When I got the $38 pair, I hated his style...more every time I hear them, so, it would be nice to download track by track.

Many of the samples are of very poor quality, but the Mozart comes out of the little gizmo with astonishing clarity.

Will try the links...when I'm not roofing, plumbing, grand-fathering, gardening..............

[Saab Dastard]

LR,

MP3 is a much lower quality storage mechanism than CD, due to the high (and lossy) compression. If you are an audiophile, be aware of this - don't expect too much from MP3s.

Put it this way - how many music CDs can you fit on a music CD? One. Now how many MP3s can you fit on a CD?

I rest my case :)

Convenient? - yes! Quality? - no.

SD

[Loose rivets]

Yes, it's strange. I know that years in noisy aircraft has taken its toll, but strangely I still seem to be able to enjoy a Steinway or Yamaha piano more than a cheaper one. Some of the high notes sound a bit ‘wooden' sometimes, and rattle around with my 6,000 cycle tinnitus, but if one string is slightly out of tune it will drive me skatty. My CAA readouts by rights should have made me unable to hear even the first harmonics of the high end but somehow the colour is still there.

So, given that I don't want more than 10 pieces loaded at a time, I can go for the best quality...?? Mmmm, having said this, the choice of quality was not available to me on the progs I tried. I'm about to try the links, so maybe they will have the option. It could be that my son was referring to copying from CDs, I'll just have to get climbing on the learning curve.

When thinking about the neuro-psychology:8 of one's hearing, I was impressed by my rejection of some of Stan Kenton's later pieces that I considered downloading yesterday. Same band mostly and the same music, but it just wasn't right...then I found a 1953 disc that I recognised by its cover. Every inflection of every note seemed perfect, all matching up to some deeply stored data---filed away long before I got hooked on classical piano. I can't have heard it for at least thirty years. Maybe all I need is a memory jogger.

[Saab Dastard]

LR,

Possibly an interesting psychological study - "the influence of nostalgia on perceived auditory efficiency". :p

SD

[El Grifo]

This may be in some way affilliated to Alltunes but it ROCKS !!!

http://www.gomusic.ru/default.aspx