All kidding aside I understand the popularity of the various music streaming services however if one is a fan and listener of other musical genres besides pop, rock, R&B, dance, rap, hip-hop then the music streaming services tend to fall way short.
I listen to tons and tons of all kinds of jazz and I've never a streaming service that has a decent avant-garde jazz selection. Sure they have a few token recordings but the most part they don't offer much music that falls outside of the popular music umbrella. I therefore maintain my own "streaming music library" and while it does contain the millions of tracks that are available on many music streaming services, the all of tracks it does contain are of interest to me. I hope that one of the many audio manufacturers now jumping on the streaming bandwagon will make an effort to acquire or, at the very least, license the Squeezebox technology and LMS software from Logitech. That would be much better than using the worthless DNLA/UpnP technology that so many of these manufacturers insist on employing. One can pretty much count on any new music streaming device that relies on DNLA/UpnP technology to be heavily discounted within 6 months of its launch and discounted within a year. Is it any wonder that the default high end music "streaming" system is now a Mac Mini tethered to a USB DAC with some iPhone remote control app. What a joke. Living Rm: Transporter-SimAudio pre/power amps-Vandersteen 3A Sign. & sub Home Theater: Touch-Marantz HTR-Energy Veritas 2.1 & Linn sub Computer Rm: Touch-Headroom Desktop w/DAC-Aragon amp-Energy Veritas 2.1 & Energy sub Bedroom: Touch-HR Desktop w/DAC-Audio Refinement amp-Energy Veritas 2.0 Guest Rm: Duet-Sony soundbar Garage: SB3-JVC compact system Controls: iPeng; SB Controller; Moose & Muso Server: SBS on dedicated windows 7 computer w/2 Drobos 'Last.fm' (http://www.last.fm/user/jazzfann/) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ralphpnj's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10827 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=103488 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
