Vinyl vs Digital - Which do you buy?

[Traxx]

My cdj 800 mk2 arrived this morning, ive stayed off to break it in. Just spent £10.20 on 11 tunes i really wanted without having to pay for the other 2/3/4 tunes on the vinyl release i didnt want + postage... All in all...WINNER!!!!

[TechMouse]

My cdj 800 mk2 arrived this morning, ive stayed off to break it in. Just spent £10.20 on 11 tunes i really wanted without having to pay for the other 2/3/4 tunes on the vinyl release i didnt want + postage... All in all...WINNER!!!!

I've been buying electronica stuff from bleep.com and juno, and I have to say that the whole digital download experience is really something. You listen to clips, you say "I'll have that", you pay £1 or so a track, then in minutes it's downloaded to your HD.

Someone was telling me they were in a club a couple of months back, and someone asked the DJ if they had a certain tune, and he said no, but he had a 3G card so he went onto the internet, bought the tune, and then played it.

Pretty smooth.

[Traxx]

I've been buying electronica stuff from bleep.com and juno, and I have to say that the whole digital download experience is really something. You listen to clips, you say "I'll have that", you pay £1 or so a track, then in minutes it's downloaded to your HD.

Someone was telling me they were in a club a couple of months back, and someone asked the DJ if they had a certain tune, and he said no, but he had a 3G card so he went onto the internet, bought the tune, and then played it.

Pretty smooth.

Very smooth. You use beatport? i got a gift card with my cd deck and used the credits on it for some more tunes. Now when i click on download mp3 icon next to the track (in my ready to download section) nothing happens. IE doesnt say its blocking it or nothin just no result. Tried the FAQ's but they done seem to have the answer.

[TechMouse]

You use beatport?

No, mainly been using Juno and Bleep.

I don't buy much Techno digitally, as we don't (always) have CD decks in the club.

i got a gift card with my cd deck and used the credits on it for some more tunes. Now when i click on download mp3 icon next to the track (in my ready to download section) nothing happens. IE doesnt say its blocking it or nothin just no result. Tried the FAQ's but they done seem to have the answer.

Sounds a bit weird.

Tried emailing them?

Online music vendors are normally good at sorting this kind of stuff out in my experience. On the grounds that if you're happy you're more likely to come back and spend more money!

I've got a free voicher for 50 tunes from eMusic which came with my mp3 player, but I haven't looked yet.

[dan the acid man]

Very smooth. You use beatport? i got a gift card with my cd deck and used the credits on it for some more tunes. Now when i click on download mp3 icon next to the track (in my ready to download section) nothing happens. IE doesnt say its blocking it or nothin just no result. Tried the FAQ's but they done seem to have the answer.

never had that problem on beatport, have you made sure your firewall isn't blocking them?

[michael00elder]

I buy 95% of my stuff digitally. I much prefer the ease of just going onto Beatport or Audiojelly and paying my £1.49 and getting my hands on a tune in a couple of minutes.

When I was growing up, I never had decks and I just wasn't really that interested in buying vinyl, something that I now really regret, but for the last 15 years, I've just been collecting CD's obssesively. I just love using CD decks cause of all the functions and features that they offer.

Just out of interest, I was wondering if any of you lot buy your digital downloads in WAV format. I know Beatport has just recently started offering their music in WAV files, and they aren't too expensive either, but personally, I just settle for 320kb MP3s.
I know that most DJ's just don't fell that MP3's are good enough in quality but I've put lot's of CD's together with tunes that I've ripped onto my computer and I actually struggle to notice any real difference from the 320kb MP3's and the original version on CD.

[TechMouse]

Just out of interest, I was wondering if any of you lot buy your digital downloads in WAV format. I know Beatport has just recently started offering their music in WAV files, and they aren't too expensive either, but personally, I just settle for 320kb MP3s.
I know that most DJ's just don't fell that MP3's are good enough in quality but I've put lot's of CD's together with tunes that I've ripped onto my computer and I actually struggle to notice any real difference from the 320kb MP3's and the original version on CD.

I've bought stuff in FLAC format a few times.

320kbps mp3 does the job though.

[dubs]

I've been buying electronica stuff from bleep.com and juno, and I have to say that the whole digital download experience is really something. You listen to clips, you say "I'll have that", you pay £1 or so a track, then in minutes it's downloaded to your HD.

Someone was telling me they were in a club a couple of months back, and someone asked the DJ if they had a certain tune, and he said no, but he had a 3G card so he went onto the internet, bought the tune, and then played it.

Pretty smooth.

now that is service. would you like fries with that :)