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In Reply to: RE: What for? posted by Awe-d-o-file on December 20, 2014 at 15:22:51
"I would never pay an extra 3-6$ for a CD and have no idea why you assumed I or anyone would."
I will pay the extra in an instant. Why? Lots of reasons but mainly because I can walk out of the store NOW with what I want.
While I not an instant gratification type of person for most things when it comes to music I am. Most of my musical purchases are impulse buys. When I want some new music I want it now, not tomorrow or the day after, but now.
A couple extra bucks to get it now? Not a problem.
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If you want it now why not Spotify or Tidal?
Alan
I have Spotify. It has its charms, a great way to explore new music and scratch the itch.
My preference is for vinyl. When I want a new record I want it now. Sometimes I have no choice but to order on-line but fortunately I live in a city that has lots of great record shops. A couple shops that have large inventory of new vinyl, new releases.
Bottom line for me is I am not going to quibble over a few dollars and if I can get something immediately and it is a few dollars higher than what I would pay on-line so be it.
I am interested in Tidal, lossless streaming would be great and the price is pretty good. I went to the web page to see what they have, perused the FAQ wherein it states:
"If you would like to browse our music library, please visit our web player at listen.tidalhifi.com (no log in or account required).
Here you can browse our entire music catalog to see if TIDAL has all of the content for your musical interests."
However when clicking on the "Artists" link, the only way to see the list is to sign up... Meh...
copying their CDs to files. For what? If you've alphabetized your CDs, you can grab one, stick it into a CDP and be listening in seconds.
Or, you can find your laptop, go through the log on stuff, do all those commands--- and still have to convince yourself that all those extra steps lead to similar sonic results.
I ascribe to the tenet that every piece of equipment, every manipulation of data leads to some loss. There is no audio free lunch.
It's your choice to stick to CDs and that's OK.
Your reasons why it is a superior choice are based on your ignorance.
my blog: http://carsmusicandnature.blogspot.com/
not only to YOUR ignorance, but your complete lack of civility.
I welcome, of course, some evidence to discuss, but you're obviously impotent.
You have never experienced a server based environment where any title is immediately available.
... Especially if you have thousands of CDs and even more so if you have more than one system and more than one person accessing the music collection. (which my family certainly do)
I find having my entire library automatically categorized alphabetically by either title, artist or track is an enormous convenience.
Now, I am not into having a streaming service so maybe you might have a valid point there.
However I have my music collection on a desktop PC with multiple hard drives and it is accessible to 5 systems throughout the house and everyone can individually accesses the interface on their iPad to play whatever they want on the system in the particular room. (trying playing a physical CD if someone else is using it in a different room)
Yes, everything makes a difference but if you play your digital files through a decent DAC then there really should not be a problem.
Of course, YMMV.
Smile
Sox
need to spend researching the best devices, installing them, etc.
I'm too lazy.
I don't see the benefit since it's not inconvenient to grab a CD and have it for the car or a portable CD player ("what's that?").
It's all good.
... One of my kids actually likes a lot of my classic rock music.
Having about 20,000 tracks (and rising all the time) at my finger tips is far more convenient for me than searching for the physical media. If you think it is easier to play the physical media then more power to you, but it is extremely hard to believe how you think this unless you don't have a proper grasp how computer based audio works.
If you are lazy then computer based audio is for you.
In our cars we have iPods loaded from a computer with lossless music. Far easier than having a stack of discs in the car. I don't listen to much music in the car but my wife and kids do always in their cars.
Oh, we have portable disc players and various boom-boxes (the boom boxes have docks for ipods & iPhones), but they are just ancillaries to the systems in the home.
Enjoy your music however you like but believing playing the physical media is just as convenient as computer based audio is just a tad naïve.
Smile
Sox
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