With Waffles and WhatCD gone, alternatives (PTH and Xanax, now Apollo) are popping up. Anyone on these trackers?
Do people even download music anymore? I pay $99/year for Groove Music (formerly Xbox Music, formerly Zune Music) for all I can stream/download on five different devices. I rejoice that I never have to relive the days of downloads, renaming and metatag cleanup.
Waffles isn't dead yet. They're in the process of moving servers again. I find that the streaming services don't offer the selection that I'm looking for. There are a number of artists I listen to whose music isn't on any of those services. So I'd rather download all my music so that I don't have to use multiple apps and keep track of what music is where. And when I want to support an independent artist, buying their stuff on a site like Bandcamp provides them much more money than the fractions of a cent per listen they receive from the streaming services.
I find that the bigger trackers have everything I need when streaming services don't. I also get a huge collection of MP3s from the artists I want to support when I buy vinyl on Amazon - as they usually give you their MP3s for free when you buy the vinyl.
Yeah, exactly, I've been moving back to vinyl (even on new releases) since a lot of music isn't post processed to hell (loudness wars etc.) on vinyl like it is on cd/digital only. Here's a nice database for what version/release is the best http://dr.loudness-war.info
