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So Beatport stopped labeling thier tracks? (pg. 6)
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| Zyklon_Jay |
| i don't think i'm going to get any taller. |
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| Rodri Santos |
| you win, now shut up. |
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| Zyklon_Jay |
| i'm glad i won. |
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| Adam420 |
fyi guys, I brought this thread to the attention of Beatport's customer care and this was their response:
| quote: | Yes, thanks Adam, we love the forums and value the impartial and considered opinions of their users greatly.
There was an issue with regards to encoding certain tracks over the new year which has since been resolved. You should now be able to download tracks without further id3 problems.
With regards the tracks you purchased during this time, our engineering team is currently going back and retagging all the affected back catalogue. Please check back in 30 days' time and we'll be able to reset your tracks with the correct information. |
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| shaw |
| quote: | Originally posted by Adam420
fyi guys, I brought this thread to the attention of Beatport's customer care and this was their response: |
Sweet. I've been too lazy to re-ID some of them, so maybe I'll jot down the notes and get some fresh mp3s that haven't degraded on my hard drive. I bet that will save me at least 7-8 Kbps on average. :p
Anyway, Rodri, if for no other reason, don't buy music from those sites because you're giving them your credit card and personal info--generally not something sane people like handing over to people who may or may not be involved in large amounts of illegal business practices. That's kind of 'internet for people <80,' though.
| quote: | Originally posted by bas
I think there's like a 4-6 hour window where you can re-download. In the event that you need to re-download an older track, you can always e-mail them and ask and they'll put it back in your download queue. I've had that happen to me. |
I think it's a little longer, but the point remains. The idea is to let you get the track if the download is interrupted or, as I have done numerous times, if you open it, rather than save. Discogs is just a database of descriptions--not an online library of copyrighted content. There is quite a difference, from many perspectives. I did have one major issue a couple years ago where I had nothing backed up and lost a hdd. They were good enough to re-open my entire library (there was one site that refused) as a one-time exception. :) |
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| JEO |
| quote: | Originally posted by shaw
Discogs is just a database of descriptions--not an online library of copyrighted content. There is quite a difference, from many perspectives. |
Ok Discogs wasn't the best possible example, so (games, not the same as music, but copyrighted material still I guess);
Good Old Games
When you buy a game there, it automatically stays in your library, allowing you unlimited downloads. There may be a big difference in selling games and selling music I'm not aware of though..
But if it's guaranteed I'll always get my music back from Beatport, no matter how many hard disks I crash, then what the hell, I'm fine. The biggest problem I have regarding music has very little to do with Beatport. It's my OCD on physical records. I feel stupid owning most new tracks in only mp3s. |
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| Rodri Santos |
| quote: | Originally posted by shaw
Anyway, Rodri, if for no other reason, don't buy music from those sites because you're giving them your credit card and personal info--generally not something sane people like handing over to people who may or may not be involved in large amounts of illegal business practices. That's kind of 'internet for people <80,' though.
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Like System J says sometimes you only find music on that sites, sometimes i've been tempted but i don't have a debit card without use for this purposes, as i said i find a lot of them not trustworthy but hey, there is a lot of interesting material there. |
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| pzK |
| The main issue for me was the addressing of the WAV-pricing, it's so freaking expensive atm. :( |
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| LAdazeNYnights |
I'm sure this topic has been beat to death here - but is there really a noticeable difference between WAV and 320kbps?
i guess it depends on how you're listening to the music. i don't dj or produce so i don't have monitors or a bangin sound system. i do have some nice headphones tho and i don't notice a difference between the 2 on these headphones. |
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| sg_57 |
| quote: | Originally posted by pzK
The main issue for me was the addressing of the WAV-pricing, it's so freaking expensive atm. :( |
Worse than this $1 per song surcharge on its own, it is truly painful to hear from them that they are not willing to consider selling those wav files as FLAC, (unofficially, the claim is that DJs are too xxxxxx and yyyyyy to know how to handle that format) which besides being full-fidelity and just as easily decompressed back to wav if needed:
-1) would be roughly half the size, and therefore take half as long to download.
-2) since FLAC can hold basic meta-tags this format could provide users with the same advantages as id3 tagging, all track names, artist name, album and genre already filled out AND possibility to have embedded graphics.
So the stuff is ready-to-go, pop it into Traktor and no more work required.
Really! And if they ever went to FLAC they'd never want to rescind this $1 charge, claiming some other reason for overcharging. Like the same tagging they do for free to the MP3 files.
Also, now that the competition has a download manager, guess one will have to be on the way from Beatport as well, so broken downloads can resume.
Meanwhile ... oh never mind. :confused: |
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| Adam420 |
| Beatport has a download manager |
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