From a long, strange e-mail.
Choose a Soundtrack for Your Solitude (Music Streaming)
JRiver’s new streaming is completely lossless, just like Tidal, Qobuz or the new Amazon service, but at a much lower cost.
JRiver has an extremely reliable server at Amazon, and you can use it. It’s listener supported, so you decide whether and what to give.
(They say they have 170,000 files and that they are paying a license.)
This their cloud player service (or whatever they call it). It’s basically like Napster for streaming. I don’t know how they get around the legal issues but basically if you have your library in JRiver, you can pick songs to upload to their cloud (I guess maybe they call it backup to avoid the cops). The files go into a shared space where I can stream your files and you can stream mine. It is nothing, I repeat, nothing like Tidal or Qobuz except in the mind of the guy who owns JRiver. Customers have been asking him for years to enable streaming from these services and he refuses because he says their business model doesn’t make sense and they are all going to go bankrupt, so he isn’t going to invest in enabling them. He’s been saying this for a long time. I suspect JRiver will go under before Tidal or Qobuz.
Very weirdly he starts by saying save internet bandwidth so don’t watch Netflix listen to music. Then segues into “upload your songs (which you have locally) then stream them” () brackets are my commentary.
Oh yes and use this great music playing system to organise your photos.
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