Quote Originally Posted by Mirage View Post
Why don't you trust the quality of downloaded music? It's really easy to check if a file has completed without errors, and what the bit rate is. Also, real audio fanatics wouldn't even be satisfied with CD-quality audio , and would gag at the thought of compressed audio, even at 320kbps.

Personally, I'm satisfied with 224kbps MP3 and higher, and I have little problems finding music in that quality online.
Hey now, I said audio fanatic not audiophile. My experience has been that songs are most often labelled wrong, titled wrong, wrong artist, blips in the middle, weird remixes, and I know that if I rip a song myself it will have all of that labelling stuff done right, and if it rips with a skip then I can re-rip it easier/quicker than to try and find the same file again. If I like an artist/band I do them the courtesy of buying their album even though I know they get pennies from an album's sale.

Also, downloading music was a keen thing to do when I was all into anime theme songs and such. Anything I listen to now I can get on a CD