Buying music

[goofy328]

Originally Posted by dontaskwhy

The answer to your question requires you to confirm what type of phone/Operating System you are using. Android, Apple or other ? Are you looking to download songs, entire albums or ringtones ? You need to explain your request a little more.

You don't download songs to a Samsung Galaxy phone from Apple iTunes for example.

You can install Apple Music on an Android and do it that way.

[goofy328]

Originally Posted by Fleet

I have only had a smart phone for a little while.

What are good sites to use to buy/download music to my phone?

Last I heard, it costs about $1 per song.

treble.io is cool. You have to watch ads though, but it is free to download. They have a coin system; you get coins when you download and/or watch ads, or you can pay $1 to get more coins.

7digital is also interesting.

I'm a sucker for trebel.io. Now that I'm talking about it I might just download it again to see if there's anything new there.

Easiest way is to just get Google gift cards and download directly through Google Play.

[stanley-88888888]

i like murfie.com because they offer flac's.

[markjames68]

Originally Posted by SoCal_Native

You pretty much do. It says if it is flac and most MP3 is 320 and you can tell my the file size. If the CD is like 140 megs it's 320, if it is 50 megs it might be 128.

What bit rate is music streamed?

At “high” usually either 256 or 320 depending on the provider. Tidal does hi-res but for only a fraction of their titles.

[lyla_can_wait]

I suggest you go for any streaming services such as Apple Music, Spotify, Pandora and so on. For you don't have so much storage for songs and buying music is relatively expensive. There are also so third-party apps like TunesKit Audio Converter can help you convert music to mp3.

[ozonkan]

Originally Posted by Fleet

I have only had a smart phone for a little while.

What are good sites to use to buy/download music to my phone?

Last I heard, it costs about $1 per song.

Buy a subscription to Google Play Music or Apple Music or Spotify or something else. There will be all the music and nothing to download. You can even listen to it without an Internet connection. I have the first two services, I pay for Google Play, but I'm still testing Apple music (3 months for free).

[forgotten username]

I still buy actual records. They always come with mp3s now. Also sites like Bandcamp have a lot of stuff, even for just buying files.

Streaming is cool I guess, but I can't be bothered with renting and I would rather own the music. I only use the free versions like a radio with adds.

And there's still peer2peer.

[RMESMH]

Originally Posted by ozonkan

Buy a subscription to Google Play Music or Apple Music or Spotify or something else. There will be all the music and nothing to download. You can even listen to it without an Internet connection. I have the first two services, I pay for Google Play, but I'm still testing Apple music (3 months for free).

In order to play a selection from your Apple Music library without an internet connection, you do have to have downloaded that selection from Apple’s server to the device (in addition to just having the selection in your library).