I would like to collect lots of music CDs. It takes too long to download 100s of entire CDs and I only want lossless (WAV) copies.

It seems to me I should rent CDs, like one can do with DVD's. I do not see any online CD rental sites. Why not??

Am I missing something here?

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks

...would you mind steering me in the right direction? What/where is the best way/place to download, with "lossless" compression, entire albums for playback on high-end home audio?

Is it realistic to expect to collect several hundred albums of full CD quality?

Thanks you.

Because it's not profitable. A new CD costs between $16 and $20, and there's no point in renting it, as the difference in price between buying it and renting it would be of a few dollars. Besides, as peerless said, you could convert those tracks to mp3 or wav, and then you wouldn't rent it any more.

Oh, and the place to discuss how to obtain copyrighted material is not here.

Ivan
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Unlike Videotapes and DVDs it is illegal under US law to rent recorded music. I can't remeber the exact law to cite, but it was passed in the 70's best I can remember.

Try your library - the won't have all the titles you want, but they may have some and it's free.

It's the Record Rental Amendment of 1984 which adds to the copyright act of 1976 forbidding the rental of sound recordings by anyone except the copyright holder (i.e. artist or record label).

Movies can be rented because they fall under something called the first sale doctrine which allows anyone who buy a copy of a film to do what they want with it - except of course copy it and resell the copies.

Check out findlaw.com if you even have legal and copyright questions

...I guess that answers the question.

Thanks.

Have you thoght about your local LIBARY? and it dosen't cost a dime.. you then can rip them and then share them with us... LOL