aspendl828 wrote: > I agree with you both. I also want to own the music. The problem is I > struggle to justify that position other than on sound quality grounds. > If I could load all my FLAC files into the cloud and stream them in all > their pristine quality to whatever player I wanted wherever and whenever > I wanted then I suspect that is what I would do. I might even pay £10 a > month for the ability to do it. > > No costly servers to keep powered up. No need to do back ups (OK, fair > enough, no way am I trusting a 'cloud' provider to guarantee not to lose > my stuff) or worry about hard drive failures. > > See where I'm going? > > What is the difference between that and 'renting'? When I sit and select > an album on my SB+ do I care which NAS it is coming from? So equally I > wouldn't care if it came from Cloud Storage. Where is the line then that > would stop me (and you guys) wanting a Lossless Spotify? > > IF Spotify or similar were lossless and had 'enough' content depth how > do I justify my strange need to 'own' the music? Even though I know I > need to own it, I don't really understand why.,,,,, > > Cheers > > Andrew
.. Because you own the actual file it could be a family heirloom and transcoded to new lossles formats forever for generations :) No time limit , I think this is an aspect that the music industry don't like, kiddie could just copy mom and dad's collection for a starter kit in music ! And the also want to prolong the copyright times so that it last longer before getting into public domain . I would like to see the opposite the artist ( and record companies ) from the 60's and 70's have already got everything they ever expected out of their content . If [ insert online service ] fold tomorrow , your " collection" and carefully crafted playlist are gone . And keeping stuff online means some privacy invasion , and it probably will get worse . Can you store whatever you want ? Is there or will there ever be a cloud service that just treats your storage as an encrypted blob of data that only you can access ? And if the content is in the cloud it will get "managed" and censored in some fashion, basically someone else is in controll . I have to worry more than Gary as I think my porridge drooling days are one or two decades further in th future ;-) ( just a guess as Gary seem to have been on concerts venues when I was on my first set of teeths ). ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mnyb's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4143 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=95885
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