erland;604341 Wrote: > I understand the issues at the moment because all music isn't available > from streaming services and the audio quality isn't good enough and the > network might not always be 100% reliable, but let's imagine that those > problems were solved and you were also able to listen on your streaming > service subscription anywhere. With anywhere, I mean that it will be > available both in home (Squeezebox, computer) and in car stereo and > portable devices. On portable devices, let's say you are able to > download it locally on the portable devices at home so you can use it > even without a network connection later on when you leave the house. > > Let's also say that the monthly cost would be lower than what you spend > on music today every month, the difference is that you have access to > all music instead of just the albums you can afford to buy today. > > I guess what I'm asking is if the issue is mainly about the quality and > limitations on which devices you can play it, or if the main issue > really is about paying a monthly subscription. > > Since I got my Spotify account which I can use at home on my Squeezebox > and when I'm not at home on my iPhone (also works in the car), I can > honestly say that the only reason to buy CD's is the audio quality and > the fact that all music isn't available on Spotify. For the stuff you > really like, you still want the CD to get good audio quality, but it's > just a matter of time until that changes.
There is another factor a streaming service can choose to make some music unavailable if it's to unpopular why waste resources on that ? I figure a streaming service can never have everything really, and you still not in control really. I want all my music in an open source lossles format, for backup and data migration reasons. Yes I expect my files to be "forever" inherited by friends and family in the future. I can imagine that someone still playing one of my CD rips in 100 years from now :) Online streaming can be a "digital darkness trap" for our culture, some things would just dissapear without a trace ? And our culture would be in the hands of Apple and Spotify ? or similar. I think data mining old files would be a real academic profession/hobby in the future, just as we right now are studying old books and tape's for our history. With 10000 local copies of Flac album it is like to survive in to the future :) I'm just not fond off disposable culture yes I probably have to and will pay more for the privilege doing so. Streaming is great shortcut for a young person without money thou, you can actually enjoy a lot of music. But however it goes the streaming service will be in control over what library you can have, that is for me unacceptable . Democracy is not forever either we may have more censorship in the future and also market driven self censoring a strong factor in content providing (example parental advice sticker's on CD's can someone put people that invent such stuff on fire please). There is always a lot of "moral panic people" around trying tell others what music is good art or not. Just afraid that the streaming future will be some kind of sanitized Disney reality with no rough edges. -- Mnyb -------------------------------------------------------------------- Main hifi: Touch + CIA PS +MeridianG68J MeridianHD621 MeridianG98DH and assorted amps SiriuS, Classe' Primare and Dynadio speakers, Contour 4 Contour Center, and Contour 1.3SE rear ch. Rel Stadium 3 sub. Bedroom/Office: Boom Kitchen: SB3 + powered Fostex PM0.4 Misc use: Radio (with battery) PLEASE FIX BUG 112 http://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=112 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mnyb's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4143 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=84697 _______________________________________________ beta mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/beta
