>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. > It will never be everywhere. Streaming services will never have all music. You will never be in control over it.
There's always a concern that something will happen to the service, and you'll have no capability to play it. Then there's broadband internet costs - some people are effectively paying for the music every time it is streamed. It will never be available everywhere. You can't take a copy of the music to put on a portable music player. Maybe you can stream to a portable player, but that won't be available in all locations either. It will be expensive, and lower quality. Battery drain on the device is higher, so won't be able to play as long. Licencing issues too - some music may only allow to be streamed to certain countries, and I've seen some music initially available, only to be removed from the streaming service. I see almost no benefits, other than a good source for discovering/trying out music before purchase. I doubt that any music streaming service will ever stream a lossless format - it will always be compressed (but maybe high enough quality that some people won't notice). In terms of music library management, you can't organise the music as you would like. You can't find your music as easily, make dynamic playlists, rate songs, etc. You have limited ways to browse the library. You can't add additional tags, change genres, split albums into original content + bonus track albums to organise how you want. I you stop paying a subscription, you lose access all music. _______________________________________________ beta mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/beta
