Final Scratch - Getting tunes

Just purchased Final Scratch 1.5 on ebay
http://cgi.ebay.com.au/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi...AMEWA%3AIT&rd=1

Top price too.... and will be selling the CD adaptor as I have no use for it

So... in what quality do the mp3's need to be to be nightclub quality?
And where is the best place to look for single tracks? Places like Kazaa/LimeWire? Or Torrent sites? Or is there sites dedicated to high quality individual tracks solely for this purpose?

Ideas?

for dance/rave i suggest you download soulseek
kazaa is megaghay
limewire ok but not that great for dance
BT is pretty much useless for singles

as for quality, people will say 320kbit is what you need for club playing but good luck finding them that quality to download

a good mp3 collection takes ages to build... its taken me years to get the collection i have

Oh dont worry.. I plan on leeching from you and Woj like a motherfucker

thats a fuckin good price for FS1.5 mate
good spotting

You can buy them at 320kb quality at loads of sites

And the CD adaptor is valued at $100 new... being scoping for ages... NONE have gone for under $400, and this one for $275 with the adaptor! Well chuffed!

hahaha
he does have a point G

now for downloading... i rip my vinyls at 320, but the accepted is 192kbit... you'll find most rips at that bitrate

sometimes you'll see 160 and 128
128 is ok for rare shit if you cant find it any better but generally 128-160 bare mimumum but avoid if possible
if its under 128 forget it...even for home play

anything 192kb bit or ova is fine

PS that is a fucking excelleing price mate. good score

them speakers u mix thru at home tho G__ you`d get away with anything 129kbit as the sound pretty is a tad muddy anyways..

il burn u a dvd of all my mp3`s. altho alot of it trance and psy...

psy is top fun mixing tho.

This post has been edited by slide: Feb 9 2006, 12:03 PM

any less than 192kbps is a joke, and 9/10 digital shops provide 320kbps or some even have WAV files available.

P2P programs are gay, and considering digital only costs between $2 & $4 a track, you would have to be a fair povo to avoid paying that. That and its hardly supporting the artists you using!!

ALSO another problem with illegal downloads, If the source of the original track is crap, say 96kbps, and the person has "saved as" a higher bit rate say 192kbps, its going to sound even worse.
Alot of tunes are also from set rips, which means your just wasting your fucking time, because they are often poor quality and have radio sweepers all through them.

see the piracy thread and support the labels and buy a digital dowload for a piddly $4 a track so they can actually afford to put out new music...

This post has been edited by archon99: Feb 9 2006, 12:28 PM

i use these sties
www.djdownload.com
www.allhqmusic.com
www.mp3.com.au
www.beatport.com

support ra -

http://uktrancealliance.trackitdown.net

i like uktranceallience`s store thingo..

Piracy is still illegal,

It's what killed computer games, people stopped putting effort into making them coz there wasn't enough money involved anymore.. Started porting games to consoles.

Some of the songs I can't find on the net, in the end I don't bother, it's easier for me to go to beatport.com/audiojelly.com and just click something and have it download immediately and not have to worry bout the chance that it's shit quality.

Vinyl rips are absolute shit, I will never play one out, all the groups that release promo vinyls i.e, TSP, NRG, BPM, DOC, KLF, LGU, MPX, TGX, QMI, USF, FML, POW, QMI, etc..... have really worn out turntables or something because all the vinyl rips I obtain all have so much noise, their pitch doesn't hold, etc...

Each to their own I guess, I mean you're going to get away with it and it's cheaper than legitimately buying stuff.

But i'm with ProfessaB on this one, most of the stuff that's released illegally is pretty shit quality. Well all the tunes I get. Like sometimes I download 6 different versions of the one song and they're all really bad and scratchy, or of low bitrate, or 320kbps but vbr on the lowest setting...

www.beatport.com is really good
no point comparing vinyl rips (legal or not) to a pristine audio source hehe