Downloading Music: Online Stores
So… You have heard a fabulous track in someone’s dj set and got to know its name… or either you fell in love with some house track while sorting your downloads folder. Or perhaps you have even tested some pirate track on the dancefloor and it blew up the crowd!
It’s time to buy it!
There’s a vast variety of online music shops available for you, starting with such dinosaurs as Juno and Beatport and up to some small local shops. Sure, the major amount is being offered by the largest stores:
If you want to buy music in the online stores you should have a credit card or any other account which is suitable for internet payments. And of course some money on this account. :) If everything is set you just need to pass the simple registration after which you get access to an innumerable warehouse of music.
Don’t be scared while visiting an online store for the first time, everything is simple and clear. You just need to enter the name of a track or its author in the search, then listen to it, choose a suitable format and add it to the basket.
Mostly at online shops you have a choice whether to buy a full release or maybe some separate tracks of it. The release itself costs less, than the total cost of its tracks. The shops often offer to choose a quality of the track between MP3 and WAV (this one is more expensive). Some offer a choice of MP3 quality between 192 kbit/s(cheaper) and 320 kbit/s.
All the shops have an option to sort music by genre. Also there is a great number of charts from the world’s best DJs and Tops of tracks by rating. This really facilitates your search for the most actual and fresh music.
While buying music in the online shop, you can find some tracks and releases which haven’t appeared in the “pirate web”(like blogs & forums) and unlikely to appear there soon (maybe even never). Also rather often it’s possible to find among releases some acapellas or all kinds of dj-tools which are rarely available in free access. And it’s obvious that most likely the track will first appear in the online shop and only after it will spread to free forums and blogs.
Besides music you can also buy some corresponding goods like dj gear, T-shirts, posters and all kinds of souvenirs. Many internet shops sell sample packs and presets for synthesizers. Most of the artists, when organizing remix contests, sell their remix packs in online shops.
Though online stores are great, but don’t you forget about forums and blogs, as in the online stores you won’t find unofficial remixes, bootlegs, unreleases and nice tracks by young artists.
==Now here’s information about the leading online stores==
That’s a big online store of MP3 music. It’s focused mainly on the house music and it substyles. In addition to already released tracks, on Traxsource it is possible to find some promo material. A handy run-through.
Online shop from Juno is focused on digital downloads. It has an excellent interface with a well organized catalogue of music and a handy run-through.
One of the best known and probably the biggest shop of electronic dance music. In addition to MP3 and WAV, this shop offers M4A format – which is more advanced in comparison with MP3, as it provides the same quality of the sound at smaller file size.
The peculiarity of Beatport, which is at the same time it’s great advantage, is its extremely handy Adobe Flash engine. You are free to hang around the store without the interruption of your curretnly playing track, and at the same time еру site does not create any separate window for a player.
Besides music in this online store it’s also possible to buy dj equipment, computer games (to entertain yourself during your set.. LOL). A handy player is right on the page.
Rather a good shop with separate sections for promo material, handy sorting options. In the “Producer Pack” section you will find lots of samples from various producers for creating your own music.
There are also options to purchase tracks directly from the homepages of the labels. This is starting to become pretty popular, especially at the big labels. Sometimes in online stores like this it’s possible to find some really exclusive music.
A striking example of such shop is Defected. At this store you can buy music track-by-track or by full releases, which cost less, than purchasing one by one. The quality is 320 kbit/s.
And here is a little bit wider list of existing stores.
That’s all, folks. Hope you’ve found something new and useful in this article. Successful purchases!
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