The Master List of HD and Lossless Download Sites..

**dasmueller** · 2012-06-18, 18:13

Originally Posted by JJZolx

Am I missing something here, or is it not intended that these be Squeezebox playable? This is a Squeezebox forum, right?

I'm sure these stations are all be playable through a web browser, but how many can be streamed to Squeezebox or a music player app? We need usable URLs that can be plugged into 'Tune in URL'.

Originally Posted by TheOctavist

yes, smart guy. it is a squeezebox forum.

no we dont.

if you cant be arsed to download the files and put them on your HDD , jakes on you, friend.

it is useful to many, and they have said so;;

jesus christ. you do the work for people ,offer something for FREE and they complain like hell.

I can see both sides of this issue. One would like a list of URLs for Squeezebox streaming. The other has thoughtfully provided a listing of HD and lossless download sites which did not specify that they would be streamable to a Squeezebox. There are other areas of this forum not directly related to Squeezebox products most notably the Music Forum. I believe the listing provided has merit for those who choose to explore it. Perhaps another might develop a list to satisfy what JJZolx is looking for.

**JJZolx** · 2012-06-18, 19:19

Originally Posted by TheOctavist

yes, smart guy. it is a squeezebox forum.

no we dont.

if you cant be arsed to download the files and put them on your HDD , jakes on you, friend.

it is useful to many, and they have said so;;

jesus christ. you do the work for people ,offer something for FREE and they complain like hell.

I misunderstood. I thought these were supposed to be the URLs of high bitrate and lossless streaming radio stations.

**Mycenius** · 2012-06-19, 02:28

Hi All,

Back to original post - great list - excellent effort - a lot there I haven't seen previously (i.e. knew about HDTracks, Rhino, Bandcamp, but not many others).

So is there a list of which ones do global sales and which are region restricted to USA or EU? e.g. Rhino only sells to USA residents...?

TIA

**Mycenius** · 2012-06-19, 02:32

Originally Posted by RonM

I don't see www.neilyoung.com. He has an amusingly interactive store which includes flac downloads of most releases.

Hi Ron - I had a browse around last night and couldn't find any download options - just CD/DVD-A/DVD-V hard copies for sale... Am I blind or dumb...?

**Mnyb** · 2012-06-19, 03:19

Rhino among others regrettably lock out non us persons .

This is a dilemma for me .

1. Musicians needs to eat to so pay for the music .

2. Business that indulge in such geo restrictions for downloads should not have my money ( or anyone's money imo ) .

If everyone just copied bandcamps business model and added some of search power of amazon's site and made the whole lot avaible internationally we would not have any problems .

I really want to buy lossles downloads .

So a really helpful list , but a pita to search all these sites for scraps , historically i bought a lot of stuff from amazon , a lot of CD's that I've ripped . But I just don't want any CD's any more .

**Mycenius** · 2012-06-19, 03:29

Originally Posted by Mnyb

So a really helpful list , but a pita to search all these sites for scraps , historically i bought a lot of stuff from amazon , a lot of CD's that I've ripped . But I just don't want any CD's any more .

Yep.

Just tried a couple tonight...

http://www.groovetown.com/
Can't find any downloads at all on this Universal site - looks to all be CD & Vinyl box sets...

http://music.e-onkyo.com/contents/hd.asp
Couldn't get past the sign-up screen at check out - wants a secret word for resetting password in future and looks like it has to be in japanese I suspect (i.e. doesn't like Anglicised text in the field), either that or there is a bug in their code or it doesn't like Google Translate... Prices are also very expensive on this site - about double what http://www.hdtracks.com is... But has some interesting albums...

http://www.rhino.com/shop/format/Digital
As mentioned won't sell to anyone outside USA.

http://www.nonesuch.com/store
The Warners site worked and let me purchase a couple of FLAC downloads (David Byrne & Ry Cooder) - billed my PayPal account then nothing else happened - no download page, no email with download links, nothing... Am waiting for their CS Team to respond to my query...

**TheOctavist** · 2012-06-20, 02:21

http://melodishop.com/

http://www.gubemusic.com/

http://www.audiopornrecords.com/

**Mycenius** · 2012-06-20, 02:24

Originally Posted by Mycenius

http://www.nonesuch.com/store
The Warners site worked and let me purchase a couple of FLAC downloads (David Byrne & Ry Cooder) - billed my PayPal account then nothing else happened - no download page, no email with download links, nothing... Am waiting for their CS Team to respond to my query...

Well I'm still waiting for the Warners' Customer Service Team to respond on what happened to my Nonesuch files?!

However I have successfully purchased & downloaded from 2 others so now have 4 good sites working from the Antipodes!

http://bleep.com/
http://www.hifitrack.com/en/

(plus of course HDTracks & Bandcamp)

**Mycenius** · 2012-06-30, 06:09

Originally Posted by Mycenius

Well I'm still waiting for the Warners' Customer Service Team to respond on what happened to my Nonesuch files?!

Well I might have to apologise to Warners over that one, seems I apparantly mistyped my email address, and because it didn't have a second validation field at checkout time, and they rely solely on emailing the link (i.e. no account or download section on website) so it got lost in the ether... Although I don't undersand how Paypal checkout worked and download email didn't from the same incorrect address? But regardless good news is that's another one (Nonesuch) that's a tick for International Audiophiles!

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