Mnyb wrote: > I have some misgivings about this idea . > > I do love my lossles flac files for archiving my own discs and local > content and music bought elsewhere , Great lossless and free can be kept > in pristine quality forever transcoded to new formats forever , my > grandchildren can inherit the files. > > But for streaming it makes less sense . As you don’t need to > archive perfect copies you only listen to rented tracks in the moment OK > ? > > [.....remvoved to save space] > >
I agree with Mnyb's points. I mostly buy CDs and rip to FLAC and like having my archive copies in FLAC. (by the way, I'd be happy to buy lossless downloads instead if more existed...I don't want to pay high prices for high-res versions....just a good/secure CD quality lossless file priced at NO MORE than buying the CD, and preferably a bit less.) I currently use Spotify for streaming, and mostly for hearing things I might be interested in buying, or for listening to one off things I'm not interested in owning. The cost is not the issue for me (who knows how much I'm spending on "streaming" when I add up my monthly fees for spotify, hulu+, netflix, amazon prime, audible, etc.) The reason lossless streaming doesn't replace owning the music for me is the randomness of selection *and* the fact that albums are there one day and gone the next. Spotify has many milliions of tracks, but at least 1/3 of the time I'm looking for something, they don't have it. I'm sure I'm not the normal spotify customer of course (I have zero interest in whatever is hitting the charts currently unless I'm trying to entertain a 14 year old niece). Furthermore, it is frustrating to have saved an album in spotify only to find a month later that the album has been dropped from Spotify's library for whatever reason. So for these two reasons, music I want to listen to more than, say twice, I will want to own in some format. *Location 1:* VortexBox 4TB (2.3) > LMS 7.8 > Transporter, Touch, Boom, Radio w/Battery (all ethernet except Radio) *Location 2:* VBA 3TB (2.3) > LMS 7.8 > Touch > Benchmark DAC I, Boom, Radio w/Battery (all ethernet except Radio) *Office:* Win7(64) > LMS 7.8 > Squeezelite *Spares:* several Touch, Radio, SB3 *Controllers:* iPhone4S & iPad2 (iPeng7 & Squeezepad), CONTROLLER, or SqueezePlay 7.8 on Win7(64) laptop *Files:* ripping: dbpoweramp > FLAC; post-rip: mp3tag, PerfectTunes; Streaming: Spotify ------------------------------------------------------------------------ garym's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=17325 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=102351 _______________________________________________ plugins mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
