There's Bandcamp.
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That's what I mostly use.
Qobuz is good but lately they want you to install their software to just download albums you buy, or else you have to download one track at a time. Really petty and annoying
Oh no. If that's true, I will not buy from there again.
I like 7digital. Haven't used the other ones.
I'm an Android guy, always have been, always will. But I use Apple music; best quality music and you can download the tracks.
Any store that gives you access to the actual downloads is the way to go.
iTunes is suprisngly good about this - on a PC. Wherever the library folder is, you can just copy the files to your phone's music folder (You might have to convert them from m4a to mp3 first). (You can also export ituens playlists to transfer them)
bandcamp, and amazon are good alts to itunes. (Not prime music, search for a song or album and buy the mp3 version just as if your buying anything else).
FYI: there are easy to use music converters online. For YouTube, SoundCloud, etc.
most itunes songs are drm free so unless you need to buy on your phone i just buy on desktop and save the songs to google drive
Does iTunes still even sell music? I really miss $0.99 tracks…
They sure do!
Buy used CDs and rip them to FLAC. It's always high quality and it's usually cheaper than a digital store. Then you can either keep them or resell them!
(Your local library also likely has a large library of CDs you can check out)
There's an Apple Music app. I don't use it, but can't you buy music through that? Or just through Apple's website?
Apple Music is more in-line with Spotify. You can’t buy music through it; it’s for streaming only.
Amazon is probably your best bet. I am not sure if they still do this but I bought a few CDs back in 1999 and Amazon added the MP3s to my "owned" library. I found it to be a cool way to own both physical and cloud stored digital copies.
I also found this CNET list that might be useful.
Amazon's Music app is the worst thing ever conceived. Don't.
Not Amazon Music the streaming service. Amazon the store. You can (or at least you could) buy your music in MP3 format. I have to check.if you still can.
EDIT: Yes, they still sell MP3s
I see, and you can just download them? If so that's good. I've seen issues where people are struggling to play their purchased music on the Amazon Music app, but if you can download them then that doesn't matter..
Yes.
It depends on where you live. Amazon doesn't sell digital music in Canada.
There's free good quality music apps on F-Droid, a sort of catalogue where you can side load apps. That's Android, power to the user!
Here is the link to get F-Droid, https://f-droid.org/