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Not sure where you are so this may not apply. I haven't seen lossless in any mainstream store but boomkat is the only place I know that does flac. Also, for dancey stuff juno and beatport both do wav files (no compression).

Trance is super popular in Europe, have to check there:
http://www.juno.co.uk/trance-music/this-week/all/
http://www.amazon.co.uk/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Dpopular&field-keywords=trance&x=0&y=0

DJs have to buy it somewhere too:
https://www.beatport.com/en-US/html/content/genre/detail/7/trance

I don't know where you go to buy trance videos though. You can do that?

I think that says more about dancerecords.com, than anything else. Take a look at: http://www.juno.co.uk/

• http://www.juno.co.uk/
• http://www.3beatdigital.com/
• http://www.beatport.com/
• http://www.necodo.com/
• http://www.psyshop.com/
• http://www.dancerecords.com/

I've never once had an mp3 delivered in anything but it's pure non drm laden form. also available are .wav and .flac, multiple bitrates, package deals etc. It stuns me that people would actually pay for such files from the likes of microsoft or apple, why?

I guess DJ specific music has to be provided this way(i would never accept any limitations on my files as a DJ such as not being able to burn or transfer them between machines, this is essential to our work), but is it really impossible to purchase something like a beatles boxed set from other sources than itunes?

If you live somewhere that doesn't have much in the way of good brick-and-mortar record stores, you should try the following links:

http://www.londonwestrecords.com/ AZ-Based record store. Great Selection.

http://www.shopsolid.com/ This is a store that's set up for a specific set of dance music labels, but don't let that fool you, their selection is good.

http://www.dancerecords.com/ Would-be best online record store, if only they'd stop using RealPlayer format for their samples.

http://www.juno.co.uk/ If you live in the states, any record from here is expensive (since it's an import), but you run a better chance of finding some really outstanding records, or records that haven't sold out in the states.

http://www.beatport.com This site specializes in REALLY HIGH quality mp3 files (at good prices) of all kinds of dance music. Unfortunately the entire site interface is built in Flash. It works well, as a Flash interface, but not if you can't run Flash.

http://www.satelliterecords.com/ Record store based out of NYC, great selection, excellent organization, POOR customer service and delivery times. If you can find it here, check DanceRecords.com first. If you can't, bummer.

Those are the goods. All of them have samples you can listen to before buying, and most have great recommendation systems built in to the store. Happy Hunting!

Flat fees range from $100 to over $10,000, while royalties to recording owners range between half a cent and three cents for every copy of the track sold. Musical composition licenses typically give "the copyright holder a percentage ownership in the new work's musical composition copyright," as well as an advance of a few thousand dollars on the expected publishing income.

I personally produced a RSS->HTML feed. Instead of implementing the solution as an application I wrote a PHP script using the XML parser to convert RSS feeds to HTML. Customisation of the output is often as simple as a CSS file, more "complex" arrangements can be made by modifying the PHP code.

There really isn't very much more to it than that, the page auto-updates every 30minutes. The only feature missing are the user configurable persistent storage of your favourite rss lists, but for the environment it was needed this was no major problem.

Maybe I'm wrong. It's just that I didn't see the point in creating a seperate app + GUI when all the portability I needed was already present on the host machines. I doubt there are many places where there is access to RSS but not to an HTML browser.

For an example go to... http://www.burnttoys.co.uk/rss.html and cut n' paste this into the box.

http://rss.slashdot.org/Slashdot/slashdot
http://newsrss.bbc.co.uk/rss/newsonline_uk_edition /front_page/rss.xml
http://www.juno.co.uk/all/feeds/rss
http://www.spacedaily.com/spacedaily.xml
http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer.rss

then hit "feed". Yes, it's not very pretty and the one major disadvantage is being able to get a user click on an RSS feed to auto open in the webpage. This I have never discovered how to do and this sort of feature could be considered a security flaw IMNSHO. I wanted to implement user storage with the ability to maintain a global list of all RSS feeds, typed and rated.

Oh no you don't. I've got a Disco Inferno joke and you're not going to stop me from using it. Ya bastard!

Dougal & Gammer - 3000 Cycles :)

This will surely improve the realism of boobie bounce. :)

So THAT's what this song is about - I've wondered all these years:

http://mp3.juno.co.uk/MP3/SF153578-01-01-01.mp3

The LP: Like a big CD, and BOTH sides play music!
http://www.juno.co.uk/products/153578-01.htm

This will surely improve the realism of boobie bounce. :)

So THAT's what this song is about - I've wondered all these years:

http://mp3.juno.co.uk/MP3/SF153578-01-01-01.mp3

The LP: Like a big CD, and BOTH sides play music!
http://www.juno.co.uk/products/153578-01.htm

.. I'll still get most of my music with SoulSeek, Kazaa, WinMX and Overnet, and buy the rest from second hand CD shops.

Anyone with me on this?

Not me. I get most of my music from Juno, Substance or Vinyl Addiction. The gratification is not instantaneous, but I still don't have to move my arse. But I do visit used record stores from time to time. What a shame that the old New Order records are so overpriced (at least if they are original Factory releases)

My favorite place to shop is Groovetech. They cater more to DJs and consequently carry mostly vinyl, but they do have quite a few CDs. Probably the best thing about them is that they have lots of audio samples for pretty much everything they've ever carried, in stock or not (RealAudio, but nobody's perfect). You could probably spend the rest of your life listening to tracks on their site.

If you find yourself appreciating DnB in any of its numerous flavors, a good DnB-oriented US retailer is Breakbeat Science. Their website isn't as groovy, but they get in lots of stuff that Groovetech doesn't.

If you find yourself doing more than casual buying and you're in the US, another option to consider is to buy stuff directly from Europe (which really is the epicenter of the electronic music scene). After VAT deductions, and with no import duties, the cost is usually competitive with buying in-country; the upside being that you have a huge selection (basically everything that's released), the downside being the time it takes for your purchases to wing their way across the pond (unless you choose to splurge on speedier shipment). I've ordered from Juno Records in the UK several times and have never had a problem.

If you get into DJ-style trainspotting for releases in your favorite genre, you'll quickly come to realize that despite being huge in Europe, the dance music industry still is mostly driven by a large number of small labels, mostly created and run by the artists themselves. It's similar to the US Indie Rock scene. Consequently, distribution is not nearly as universal as one might hope for. You can spend a lot of time checking many different sources for releases. Fortunately, most labels and many of their distributors sell directly through their websites.

Lastly, don't be afraid of vinyl! Eventually, you will discover tracks in mixes or DJ sets that you want that won't ever be available in any other format. A Technics SL-1200/1210 MkII or M3D turntable, still the preference of the vast majority of working DJs, will set you back $500-$600 with a good cartridge, will probably last longer than you will. With 78 dB s/n, it's a perfectly adequate source for making MP3s (not CD quality, but is your sound card even that clean?), and then you can store your vinyl away and not have to worry about wear. There are similarly priced offerings from Vestax which are more popular with scratch and other technique-oriented DJs, as well as lower-priced DJ- and consumer-oriented offerings from such companies as American DJ, Denon, Gemini, Numark, Sony, Stanton, and Technics. There are also innumerable pricey "audiophile" turntables, but unless you're in the tube-amp camp I'd steer clear. A more recent class of turntables such as the Stanton STR8-100 and Denon DP-DJ150 have internal A/D and a SPDIF output. A 24/96 card such as one of the M-Audio (formerly Midiman) Delta cards is probably a more flexible way to do the same thing; use quality audio cables to minimize noise pickup between the turntable and sound card.

My background--I used to do college radio, but now I'm just a semi-obsessive music lover. I've never been a working DJ. My favorite dance genre is dark/tech DnB, but my other music love is death metal ;-)

Seconded on Groovetech, for shopping and listening.

Juno's good for checking out new tracks. More releases than Groovetech, but only 30 second clips.

Betalounge is very good for mixes and live sets. Nice variety, and no shit trance.

You should also try Juno Records, who have most stuff available on MP3, and have really fast delivery too!

Rob.

Now I would kill for a site with just "sample" MP3s and the like, designed specifically for consumption by end users.

The german label Kanzleramt already does this. They use realaudio and Shockwave though (you cannot d/l, only listen online).

The Dance Music Resource Pages offer short mp3 samples of the records they offer.

Same here. I can only check The Dance Music Resource Pages at home..If the fees to set up one of these digital radio stations isn't too steep, it'd be really cool to hear some shoutcast type programming on it..off the cuff, fuck Zeta (Miami alternative rock bullshit..i thought south florida was 'anti-alternative'), fuck KROCK (xcept for stern), etc... I'm not too thrilled about the fee, but it's not too bad I guess. Content preview is a must before I shell out the bucks for a receiver though.