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Which site is Best for Downloading/Uploading Hi Rez

Hi,

   I quite new to this game of streaming,uploading and High resolution music.Ive been for a good part of my life into Vinyl/CD.I would say for the last 1 or so ive been dabbling into the world of internet coupled with audio.I bought about 6 months ago a Cambridge CNX Internet Music Player(Streamer),and I must say,its quite impressive! I was excpecting it to sound artificial and "Clinical" sounding,but to my surprise it was natural in sound.Ive also gotton into DAPs or digital audio players! Im only using Spotify,and im not too sure what sampling rate this would be considered? Does there exist particular sites that I could get "High Rez" music,and that it wouldnt cost me much more than Spotify or even Tidal?
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Both Tidal and Deezer for sure allow you to download tracks and complete albums to your device providing you have storage room, in most instances a phone or tablet.
These downloaded tracks you can replay without a data connection being present BUT you do need a current service subscription for them to work.
So I connect my phone via Bluetooth to the car stereo and playback the downloaded tracks via my phone/Bluetooth to the car stereo and it works flawlessly.

So let us be clear you cannot download them from your device to a usb drive for instance, you do not ever OWN these tracks, you are still just renting them just as if you were using their live streaming service but yes it saves on your data usage definitely
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The whole concept of streaming music to the masses is just that, stream it , not buy/own it.
There are some options for downloading hires tracks for sure but none of the ones I have seen are what you would term cost effective but that is up to the individual of course.
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@mahler123.
 I feel for you but not quite sure what is happening in your case. I have had many updates to the vault2 over the air and to the Bluos app and have never had one single issue.
Also not sure what you mean by having to have playlists to make it work?
I think I have just one playlist i assembled over time but it has ,nothing to do with making it work.
I just favourite albums from searching and play them or go with new material totally, no playlists involved.

If you want to move your CD collection you just take that back up 2tb usb hard drive you should have made already from day one and regular updated and there is your CD collection.
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@kacomess.
nice summary and pretty much says it all.
Only difference I have noted is in the Deezer search function, I have found it to be near identical to Tidal.
However it could be your search for jazz as I seem to recall some other member having a similar experience searching for jazz.
With rock I would say Tidal and Deezer are pretty much the same in search, catalog and sq.
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I can 100% confirm Tidal Masters or MQA is available through the Bluesound vault2 via the Bluos app.

I honestly do not think there is any way for any app to differentiate between desktop pc and laptop tbh, after all a LOT of people do not even have a desktop any longer, just a laptop or even a powerful tablet.

But now I do see you were specifically referring to the masters side of Tidal.

Still some more options than WhatHiFi were indicating.
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asahitoro

No idea at present on Deezer and MQA,i am just waiting for Quboz to go live here in the USA.

Deezer is a good alternative to Tidal at the lower standard rate of 9.99 a month which both then give redbook cd streaming of 16/44.
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You can stream tidal right from your mobile phone if you want to, I do in the car!

What HiFi is definitely wrong on that one!

Tidal can be streamed by desktop pc ( worst interface imho!), laptop, tablet, ipad, iPhone, droid phone etc etc etc.
Basically anything you can download a Tidal app to you can stream from it.

Trust me I have been doing exactly this for nigh on 2 years!

I do have a Bluesound Vault 2 that I use at home and in all honesty the Tidal interface WITHIN the Bluos app is by far superior to any other I have tried,
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