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In Reply to: RE: Grim future for hi-resolution downloads unless- posted by ruxtonvet on June 16, 2014 at 20:33:17
If you go for dematerialized music, what's the point of local storage? It makes no sense.
The only future for this kind of thing is high quality streaming, Netflix style but for music. Qobuz has started doing that but even with Redbook quality, I found FLAC inferior to the equivalent WAV. It'll happen though.
The in-between we have to do with now is already old-fashioned
JB
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If you haven't yet been screwed by the cloud, then you will be. Music stored in your home on LPs, optical disks or hard drives are equally "materialized" and are in your physical possession so long as there is no DRM. If "your" music is in the cloud then you are at the mercy of some corporation(s) and you own nothing. If you doubt this, consider the case of Kindle users who purchased a book only to find a few days later that it had been erased from their hardware, because of a copyright "violation". This wouldn't have been terribly noteworthy, had the book not been Orwell's 1984.
There is a serious danger to the use of cloud storage to hold cultural and historical artifacts. The centralization of storage may lead to a 21st century equivalent to the burning of the library at Alexandria. IMO people who believe in cloud storage should wake up, before they become "sheeple", that is to say the 21st century equivalent of serfs.
Tony Lauck
"Diversity is the law of nature; no two entities in this universe are uniform." - P.R. Sarkar
Hi Tony,
You might be right on the philosophical side of things.
I'm only using CDs and LPs for critical listening so I'm not too bothered. I like physical media. I do believe in cloud storage as the future but I don't use it because I'm being deliberately old-fashioned and a contrarian (at least where music is concerned).
I'll just add that so far, I've lost more stuff which was hard-drive based than cloud-based!
JB
I have yet to lose any data on hard drives on a computer system that I personally manged. That's because I keep three backups and one of them is a RAID based system. It would take the failure of four separate disk drives for a drive failure to result in data loss. My backup system runs automatically, except that every month I resync with the fourth backup which is kept off-site. My backup system is set up in such a way that it would take multiple independent cases of "cockpit error" before I would accidentally delete my files.
Why am I so paranoid? I started out in computing in 1960 when you were lucky if a computer system worked for an hour or two without a fatal glitch. Multiple backups were essential unless one wanted to give one's boss the equivalent of "the dog at my homework".
If one is lazy one can always trust someone else to do one's own job. One could have trusted Bernie Madoff with one's money... I don't see any of the cloud services as objectively more trusted then Madoff, and that's before considering that one gives up one's Fourth Amendment rights of privacy when one stores one's data in the cloud.
Tony Lauck
"Diversity is the law of nature; no two entities in this universe are uniform." - P.R. Sarkar
But you already give all your mails to Google (for example), most people display their whole life on Facebook, Twitter, etc... So I'm with you but I doubt you or I are in the majority.To be honest, I'm using Netflix and I don't miss owning DVDs. For specific services I think "clouding" can be great. I would not put my passport and personal documents up there but I see no problem streaming Spotify High Rez in 2018 straight into a DAC. You pay a monthly subscription and have access to anything you want. Seems to me the way of the future even though I'll still prefer Redbook and physical media. But I'm not the one who decides here. Super-connected kids will.
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Triple back ups here..without exception.
Better to be anal than without 7 years worth of digital music collecting, archiving, ripping, and purchasing.
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