I came across the find of the website Whitelabel.net which is a great music find for new releases and top chart hits, PLUS free downloads !! However, it only caters to SERATO users.
Traktor has Beatport, since NI is a partner. Beatport offers free downloads regularly (going to be quite a few in the next couple weeks because of WMC), and best of all - THERE’S NO STUPID DRM. You can play full quality Beatport tracks on any player.
beatport is damn expensive tho (~$20 for 9 tracks)
look into an mp3 pool. alot of them have high quality (256- 320 kbps) and unlimited dls from their database for $20 a month.
Beatport has its place but you gotta find a site that caters to the kinda music you like and has a bunch of it (www.mymp3pool.com - i just joined it - had alot of what was sitting in my beatport hold crate which woulda cost me a hell of alot more had i bought em all through beatport. )
I just wish Beatport had more pop, rap, and hip hop titles available though. Seems like they used to. I know there’s record pools like djcity.com and franchiserecordpool.com, but I’ve always been kinda suspect to the quality of mp3s coming from there. They’ll say something along the lines of “up to” 320 kbps. I trust Beatport more, just wish they had more genres to choose from.
yeah, because you pay more per track for beatport – more of a safe bet your getting what you pay for.
but im telling you, these tracks sound just as good quality wise from the mp3 pool as they do off beatport. (the one i linked above has alot of hip hop/top 40 remixes -electro/house/dubstep - as well as acapellas/instrumentals/intros and loops too…)
Does mymp3pool.com actually tell you the bit rate of each song that you download from them or not? Any others record pools you’ve tried that you would or would not recommend? I know there are other threads on here about record pools, but always good to get varied opinions as time goes on.
Are whitelable.net DRMed to only work with serato?? in my opinion its of no use to anyone because you could amass a great music collection from their and loose half of it, if you decide to switch software.
Not sure I’m getting this “mp3 pool” concept straight. You get unlimited free legal downloads for paying less than 50 bucks? I’m currently ‘legalizing’ my music library and I still have a couple of thousands of tracks to go, so instead of buying all these through iTunes I could just pay 1 monthly fee for a DJ pool and get thousands of tracks for free?
I know they won’t have everything I need, but I’m guessing a whole lot… Seems too good to be true to be honest?
Don’t know if you saw it in another thread, but I posted about how Satellite recently reopened their site, and pretty much blows beatports interface out of the water. check them out man.