Downloading Lossless Compressed Albums??

[Lawrence Gould]

OK - I admit that I'm a bit behind the curve on P2P issues. Mostly I want to download high quality full albums either in wav format or compressed using lossless compression.

Here is what I currently do: I use WinMx and search for mp3s that are 320 bit rate and that have the phrase "albw" in them. That gets me high quality mp3s that are assembled using a program called AlbumWrap, which puts all of the songs in an album into one file.

My problem is that I don't know how to use any other P2P program - and to do a search that will bring up high quality full albums. (most -P2P programs will allow you to search for mp3s, but, for example, albums encoded with Monkey's Audio lossless encoder have an ".ape" extension - and none of the P2P programs I know of would allow me to search for all files ending in ".ape".

Can anyone give me some ideas on how to do this?

much appreciated....

[the_matrix_has_you]

Well lawrence you r right about some p2p program's not carrying lossles compression files , i got mine from bit torrent site's , if you get lucky you'll fine some on the edonkey network but better try torrent's.

[WackoTacko]

i find that an excellent prog for downloading full albums is dc++ just search for the artist + album name under "directory" and there it is

simple

[mp3MaStA88]

Winmx is one of the greatest programs to download full albums in high audio format... But since you don't want Winmx, then i would suggest Bitorrent... try http://www.torrentopia.com/ (torrentopia - bitorrent client that has a search engine inputed into the program) or search online for torrents and use a downloading bitorrent client like ABC (yet another bitorrent client), Bitornado, or anyother client that you can find that supports bitorrent link downloads.

[rebirth]

Don'tcha love oxymorons? Compressed lossless

>_<

[broadwayrock]

ed2k is great for lossless music.

There are quite a lot of albums in the APE and FLAC formats there.

[Afn]

ed2k is great for lossless music.

There are quite a lot of albums in the APE and FLAC formats there.
Flac is not perfect, but better than mp3.

[aqlo]

Don'tcha love oxymorons? Compressed lossless

>_<

You love to attack things you have no clue about don't you?
http://www.cs.sfu.ca/cs/CC/365/li/squeeze/

You're going to make a great peasant in an angry mob scene at Castle Frankensteinn someday.

[crackerjacker]

oggs a great format
well if u want loseless i think you should over to dppoweramp.com
they have alot of information on loseless filetypes etc.

[CRLocky]

also check out www.Archive.org , they have a ton of live shows, usually in lossless format.

[wapazoid]

Flac is not perfect, but better than mp3.

Cross-platform compatibility, reasonable compression efficiency, open source, replaygain support...not to mention lossless. If not perfect, then it sure is close.

Lawrence, have you hunted through usenet?
alt.binaries.sounds.lossless