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Original and fan-made Touhou music coming to iTunes/Google Play 10/14!
niektory:
Well, in this particular case I'd settle for the cheaper option. I'm not that crazy. :)
Lebon14:
--- Quote from: Drake on October 15, 2018, 01:08:46 AM ---Uh, what do you mean by this? Circle participants? I was able to buy music just fine.
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Go to iTunes, choose the Canadian store, search for exemple "Toho Eurobeat" (from A-One, participating). No results. Search the US store: they are all there.
That was just for checking anyway; I have all physical TEB CDs (And I'll have their new promo single too, thanks to Forza). I buy the CDs for lossless. If I need more storage, I'll just get more Hard Drives. And lossless let me choose the format I want to format to lossy to, if needed. Those saying you can convert a MP3, sure, but you lose even more quality, even at the same bitrate. Also: preservation. Preservation is important for me. I also collect CDs and that's my hobby.
EDIT 2:
Oh and, it was never about hearing a difference.
Drake:
--- Quote from: Lebon14 on October 15, 2018, 02:15:50 PM ---Go to iTunes, choose the Canadian store, search for exemple "Toho Eurobeat" (from A-One, participating). No results. Search the US store: they are all there.
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Again, not sure about iTunes because I have none of those devices, but it's available on Google Play, so clearly there's something more going on there. And you're saying you can't find them through search; have you tried going to the website and clicking the iTunes option on an album? That should at least open it on your device.
--- Quote from: Lebon14 on October 15, 2018, 02:15:50 PM ---I buy the CDs for lossless. If I need more storage, I'll just get more Hard Drives. And lossless let me choose the format I want to format to lossy to, if needed. Those saying you can convert a MP3, sure, but you lose even more quality, even at the same bitrate. Also: preservation. Preservation is important for me. I also collect CDs and that's my hobby.
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Nobody was criticizing that, to be clear, I do exactly the same.
Lebon14:
--- Quote from: Drake on October 15, 2018, 09:07:39 PM ---Again, not sure about iTunes because I have none of those devices, but it's available on Google Play, so clearly there's something more going on there. And you're saying you can't find them through search; have you tried going to the website and clicking the iTunes option on an album? That should at least open it on your device.
Nobody was criticizing that, to be clear, I do exactly the same.
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I said, not available in iTunes Canada. Screenshot: https://gyazo.com/2bac15dfff6c80afd3f124988d09db2d
Item not available
The item that you are searching for is not available on the Canadian Store.
Tried: https://touhou-music.jp/introduce/toho-eurobeat-vol-19/
On Google Play, it's available though. And, also, you don't need an iPhone to play AAC. ANY software and hardware these days play AAC. It's as common as MP3.
Also, you called niektory "dumb" because he said that he was not paying for lossy. I'm the same. Hence my deviation on lossless.
P.S I have a deep hatred against MP3. I just wish it'll just disappear.
Drake:
--- Quote from: Lebon14 on October 15, 2018, 11:18:04 PM ---I said, not available in iTunes Canada. Screenshot: https://gyazo.com/2bac15dfff6c80afd3f124988d09db2d
Item not available
The item that you are searching for is not available on the Canadian Store.
Tried: https://touhou-music.jp/introduce/toho-eurobeat-vol-19/
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Interesting. Like I was saying, it's probably something pretty particular that's keeping iTunes from having them, because I doubt it's the artists' intent to allow Google Play but not have it on iTunes. (Also, you initially said "Canada is NOT one of the countries" without referring to iTunes, hence the confusion)
--- Quote from: Lebon14 on October 15, 2018, 11:18:04 PM ---Also, you called niektory "dumb" because he said that he was not paying for lossy. I'm the same. Hence my deviation on lossless.
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Nah, the typical case for saying something like that is that you won't pay for the music at all because it doesn't satisfy very particular sensibilities, not because you will go out of your way to pay more to buy the music in a way that does satisfy you. In the case where you were already okay with importing CDs to fill that sensibility there's not much need to go out and comment that you won't use this platform because you already have acceptable options. In the case that you're okay with only having digital but still would prefer lossless (like me), that's fine, but if you're refusing to buy the content entirely because you need to have lossless or a different encoding without lossy transcoding, I would at least hope you can acknowledge how narrow of a demographic you're a part of and accept you often won't be catered to, rather than be cynical about it.
Even if unintentional, I also find these kinds of comments inherently demeaning and in poor taste in the sense that it's glossing over how impactful these developments are in the grand scale of things and taking a dump over it just because you personally don't benefit -- especially when it's entirely out of a personal taste. The fact that I have the option to buy digital is just a net gain even if it isn't completely optimal, and I'm much more concerned with how this affects the doujin ecosystem as a whole, both from the side of artists and consumers. I hope you can understand my frustrations with these sorts of comments because they literally come every time some huge development happens.
By the way, it looks like it isn't even possible to have anything other than MP3 with Play Music, so even if the creators want to use different formats or lossless it's irrelevant in this case. If anything pray that the uploaded files didn't have to be lossy transcoded.