Mick Seymour;400539 Wrote: > [off topic] > The vast majority of youngsters I know through my sons don't give a > hoot for hi-fidelity and that is what will drive the market. It is only > a relatively small amount of the older generation population that want, > nay, need this and there are less of us by the day. > [/off topic]
I know what you mean and you are right about youngsters basically not caring about sound quality - at least not until they settle down. At which point they buy a dock for their iPlayer! The fact that you can now buy $2,000 valve amplified iPod docks tells you where this is all heading. The iPod or MP3 player will become an add-on to a music system, rather than purely a standalone item. In time (5 years?) technology will make it possible to store and play a 1 terrabyte collection of losslessly compressed music files on something the size of an iPod nano. A monthly subscription will pay for unlimited streaming with either a premium service allowing unlimited losslessly compressed downloads or a pay-as-you-go download service. The MP3 player function will merge with the SqueezeBox Controller function (or the iPod with the iPhone) resulting in a single device which will both control the on-line music streaming system and store and serve music itself. Computers or servers storing music files will become redundant as people will use the equivalent of SqueezeNetwork (Napster/Spotify) or will stream direct from the Controller which will, by then, have the storage capability to double up as the music server. At the moment decoding Apple lossless files on an iPod severely drains the battery - but newer processors, electronics and batteries will get round that one. And so with storage densities continuing to grow at an exponential rate, I don't see any insurmountable technological barrier to this happening. Just my personal vision of Dystopia (or Utopia, depending on your age!). -- TheLastMan Matt SB Duet, Synology Diskstation 107+ with FW 2.0-0600 SqueezeCenter 7.3.1 on Synology Package Manager Naim 42/110 amp, B&W CM2 speakers. LPs ripped using Linn LP12, Naim 72/Hi-cap, M-Audio 2496. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ TheLastMan's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=16021 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=60096 _______________________________________________ ripping mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/ripping
