[Fuze]

My brother introduced me to AOMP3 many years ago. I was on it regularly for about a year but dabbled in it for quite a few. I remember when my brother said that I should make sure to spend all of my money quickly because something was price-wise was going to change. That's when the prices nearly doubled. That was quite some time ago. After the prices shot up soon thereafter Aomp3 got shut down. I realize now what an amazing asset to the music community was. I now realize the importance of a good mp3 which is becoming increasingly more difficult to find. Aomp3 let you CHOOSE how you wanted your music encoded, be it LAME or otherwise. All of my things were 320 LAME. That seems to be the exception not the rule which is terrible. In short, my question is, is there another website that allows you to choose how to encode your music files when you download them or is there a place that is semi cheap where I can download 320's? Price conveince, excellent quality and customer satisfaction (not to mention an astounding catalogue) existed once with Aomp3. It has to happen again. The question is, where is it? Any suggestions. Thank you very much. All the best.

[Martinman]

Originally Posted by Fuze

My brother introduced me to AOMP3 many years ago. I was on it regularly for about a year but dabbled in it for quite a few. I remember when my brother said that I should make sure to spend all of my money quickly because something was price-wise was going to change. That's when the prices nearly doubled. That was quite some time ago. After the prices shot up soon thereafter Aomp3 got shut down. I realize now what an amazing asset to the music community was. I now realize the importance of a good mp3 which is becoming increasingly more difficult to find. Aomp3 let you CHOOSE how you wanted your music encoded, be it LAME or otherwise. All of my things were 320 LAME. That seems to be the exception not the rule which is terrible. In short, my question is, is there another website that allows you to choose how to encode your music files when you download them or is there a place that is semi cheap where I can download 320's? Price conveince, excellent quality and customer satisfaction (not to mention an astounding catalogue) existed once with Aomp3. It has to happen again. The question is, where is it? Any suggestions. Thank you very much. All the best.

Hi Fuze, welcome back;

The home page (Allofmp3 Community Forums) has a section with all the different music sites (AllofMP3 Alternatives). There you can go through the different music sites that are represented here to see their catalogues and choose which works best for you, combined with the prices and bitrates.

Millisong offers nothing but 320 kbps and albums range roughly from $1.50 - $3.00 depending on the size of the album. (Songs are about 14 cents to 30 cents.) An astounding catalogue is subjective so it's up to you to decide what site best suits your needs. Many members here belong to two, three or four sites to broaden their music need requirements. Also, MP3Sales has excellent customer service, as well as MP3Skyline as their reps frequent the forum here regularly.

Somewhere on here is a review of all the sites but I can't find it; maybe someone will put up the thread. You have to do some homework to find out what's right for you -- no one can just jump on here and tell you what is the best and what is the worst. There's no one size fits all.

Personally, I've found that by being a regular on here and seeing what is going on is very beneficial. Sorry I don't have "the answer" for you but the information is here and for you to look through.

Good luck,
Martinman

[tomhr]

On the off-chance that Fuze isn't already aware of this fact: MP3Sparks is the direct successor to AllOfMP3. However, MP3Sparks is harassed by the RIAA and IFPI, and so it is "challenging" to get money into your MP3Sparks account.

[Nightfly]

Originally Posted by Fuze

My brother introduced me to AOMP3 many years ago. I was on it regularly for about a year but dabbled in it for quite a few. I remember when my brother said that I should make sure to spend all of my money quickly because something was price-wise was going to change. That's when the prices nearly doubled. That was quite some time ago. After the prices shot up soon thereafter Aomp3 got shut down. I realize now what an amazing asset to the music community was. I now realize the importance of a good mp3 which is becoming increasingly more difficult to find. Aomp3 let you CHOOSE how you wanted your music encoded, be it LAME or otherwise. All of my things were 320 LAME. That seems to be the exception not the rule which is terrible. In short, my question is, is there another website that allows you to choose how to encode your music files when you download them or is there a place that is semi cheap where I can download 320's? Price conveince, excellent quality and customer satisfaction (not to mention an astounding catalogue) existed once with Aomp3. It has to happen again. The question is, where is it? Any suggestions. Thank you very much. All the best.

Allofmp3 no longer exists you can get an account at Alltunes which is the same as MP3sparks the site that took over it's database and business model.
But as Tomhr points they are Very hard to fund and not easy to use because of it.

[chris7]

Hi Fuze, welcome back.
As mentioned mp3sparks is the way forward for you, also a big tip, start posting non stop to get your numbers up and then buy one of these below:-

http://www.aom3.org/forum/f7/100-mm-...sale-3614.html ($100 mm/mp3sparks vouchers for sale)

[Martinman]

Originally Posted by chris7

Hi Fuze, welcome back.
As mentioned mp3sparks is the way forward for you, also a big tip, start posting non stop to get your numbers up and then buy one of these below:-

http://www.aom3.org/forum/f7/100-mm-...sale-3614.html ($100 mm/mp3sparks vouchers for sale)

Good one Chris!

[fbsdmd]

Originally Posted by Fuze

My brother introduced me to AOMP3 many years ago. I was on it regularly for about a year but dabbled in it for quite a few. I remember when my brother said that I should make sure to spend all of my money quickly because something was price-wise was going to change. That's when the prices nearly doubled. That was quite some time ago. After the prices shot up soon thereafter Aomp3 got shut down. I realize now what an amazing asset to the music community was. I now realize the importance of a good mp3 which is becoming increasingly more difficult to find. Aomp3 let you CHOOSE how you wanted your music encoded, be it LAME or otherwise. All of my things were 320 LAME. That seems to be the exception not the rule which is terrible. In short, my question is, is there another website that allows you to choose how to encode your music files when you download them or is there a place that is semi cheap where I can download 320's? Price conveince, excellent quality and customer satisfaction (not to mention an astounding catalogue) existed once with Aomp3. It has to happen again. The question is, where is it? Any suggestions. Thank you very much. All the best.

Although as Nightfly mentioned, MP3Sparks/Alltunes is a major pain for funding, the ability to listen to full length, uninterrupted samples is quite nice.

[chris7]

Originally Posted by fbsdmd

Although as Nightfly mentioned, MP3Sparks/Alltunes is a major pain for funding, the ability to listen to full length, uninterrupted samples is quite nice.

Yes you are correct, it is great to hear samples like that, trouble is, many people then buy their albums cheaper/easier/available elsewhere because of all the competition now.

[Martinman]

Originally Posted by chris7

Yes you are correct, it is great to hear samples like that, trouble is, many people then buy their albums cheaper/easier/available elsewhere because of all the competition now.

That has always been the drawing card for me with Sparks, but you are right Chris, I go then look for it elsewhere. I've found now that I don't bother with Sparks and just use MySpace because a lot of artists are putting up full albums. And even if I only get four or five songs, they are full length and give me enough to go on as to whether I'll look for them or not. Sparks is expensive but you do get the choice of bitrate, although if you check the other sites, you can find stuff with good bitrates.

Maybe it's because I'm a member but I think people need to get over Sparks. Maybe they were the top dog once but the difficulty with payments and cost of albums has diminished them in my books. Plus they have crap service and no representation here.

Martinman

[Therio]

Originally Posted by fbsdmd

Although as Nightfly mentioned, MP3Sparks/Alltunes is a major pain for funding, the ability to listen to full length, uninterrupted samples is quite nice.

You are able to do this on Lavamus now as well.


Therio