In Reply to: Please post your experiences with music stored on a hard drive posted by bboroski on May 20, 2015 at 13:51:18:
Didn't read all the other responses here but for me, the second I plugged my Apple TV optically into my Dspeaker Antimode 2.0 dac, I knew it was all over. Was using a computer for years before that. Listen to internet radio, hear song you like, while it's still playing do a search in the Apple library and buy it for 99 cents. Go back later and preview the rest of the album to see if you want the entire album. All from across the room while it displays on my 55" tv. There has never been a better time in history to be a music lover.To use an Apple TV you have to be able to use an up arrow, a down arrow, and a select button. When you buy music through Apple TV, it's stored on the cloud for you - no hard drive, no computer. But of course you can download it to a pc should you decide to go that route.
I have purchased probably 30 albums in the past few weeks now - all I owned before on various media, but that's ok. I understand Apple musicmatch will let you download the albums for free if you can show you already own them on other media? Sadly, I'm just too lazy (now).
Don't really care about all the tweakophile ultra-high-rez crapola, most of the old albums I want aren't worthy, and new recordings seemingly mastered digitally from square one fill my room nicely, all I'll ever need. Don't think about audio any more - only music. Cliche I know - but true, finally.
Edits: 05/22/15
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