They don't sound as good in actual play back as the CD's.
I've tried.
Many of the albums I like sound like trash compared to the cd when streaming even on their HiRes...their stored compressed so playback is crap....

The oversampling on disc's I feel smoothes out the sound.
And the selection of download able music in high resolution music is pretty awful frankly.

Depends what you consider to be a notable release on CD. Heck it's hard to even find info on some of the CDs I want anywhere on the internet. Granted a lot of them are Japanese who are still at around 75% CDs as the preferred media choice.

See how much Jun Fukamachi you can find download able.
Heck starview was only released on Laserdisc.

Or Jun Miyake first 2 albums are vinyl only and never repressed not even once..

I can't even get these selections in any format...maybe I can download the crap compression from YT but that's not quality.

Lossless formats like FLAC and WAV will give you an uncompressed version of any CD or other format. The downside is that the files are large.

The biggest drawback in streaming and downloads is the extremely limited content.

I believe more popular content is stored and played back at higher resolutions. But it's just not what I'm looking for.

Bet you can't find the latest album from this guy for free in uncompressed form though. He only put it out on CD.

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yeah what albums of Fukamachi did you find? did you compare it to the discogs of his catalog spanning 50 years? and all the side projects and sit ins?

granted few people will want that stuff but I do.

show me links or it does not exist.

Ok then,obviously you know they don't exist. I like the jewel cases, I actually plant to buy 100 or so to replace the ones I threw out 25 years ago but still have the disc's in sleeve.


now I'll give you that you can probly pull a good amount off YT and separate the audio, but it will not be the kind of audio quality I am looking for, I understand this is a music site and not an audiophile site, and 20 years ago I would of been happy just listening to ripped music off YT as I listened mostly to mp3s then and I did not care about it.