I’m using a 2Tb sata SSD that I purchased in November 2019 for 120€. Plenty fast for music files 
if I ever manage to use up 2tb for music I will look into nvme SSDs with a thunderbolt enclosure.
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that’s the good thing about ripping
If someone gives you a Mariah Carey CD, you don’t have to rip it and you can hide it in the back of the closet.
Only a joke 
FIB-not joking.
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I just found 3 CDs I thought I had lost. Happy camper saves me a few pennies replacing them.
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Was watching this video today and thought of this topic:
While I don’t agree with his conclusion (that we will move away from intellectual property and centralised technology), it does seem like streaming increasingly makes less sense, financially speaking, for artists.
Downloads seem to support artists by an absurd amount more (as he points of through bandcamp) and I wonder if artists in the future may switch to a hybrid model. You can stream their album once or a couple of times and then after that, it grey’s out until you pay for it. Try before you buy. Everyone keeps the ubiquitous access to music but they also have to pay to listen to music frequently.
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Bandcamps model is great if you ask me, you can hear it all then decide to buy if it’s your cup of tea and much more goes to the artists.
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I still retain the original cd’s. For instance the old Kraftwerk albums before the terrible remixes. These albums can no longer be ripped and recognized by any database because the remaining artist still alive, Ralph Hutter has withdrawn the old tags from online databases. And from any streaming.
So they have to be tagged manuelly. 
I agree. It can be frustrating to invest a significant amount of time and money into a music collection, only to find that you are unable to access it without an internet connection here in roon. However, owning and curating a local music collection can still have many benefits.
One benefit is that you have complete control over your music collection. You can curate it to your exact taste and play it without any limitations or restrictions. Additionally, owning a local collection means that you don’t have to worry about losing access to your music due to changes in streaming service policies or other external factors.
Another benefit is that having a local collection allows you to have access to music that may not be available on streaming services, such as rare or out-of-print recordings. And having a backup of your collection means that you can always restore it in case of a hard drive failure or other technical issues.
Additionally, listening to music from local collection can be a more satisfying and personal experience, as you can play the songs that you want, when you want, with the sound quality you desire (inside or outside roon) And also it’s an investment that you can enjoy for many years to come.
That being said, it’s understandable that you may be considering switching to a more minimalist approach, as streaming services can offer a more convenient and cost-effective way to access a wide variety of music. Ultimately, the decision of whether to keep your local collection or switch to streaming will depend on your personal preferences and priorities.
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I have two tape machines, one open reel and the other a Nakamichi 70s art cassette deck. Working fine but I only keep them for archeological reasons, and they look good.
Physical media is not dead, it just smells funny. 
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That is so true. If I value it, I have it locally. In addition to plain removing stuff (thanks netflix), they often offer newer versions that have been remastered and a bunch of second string crap tacked on at the end, etc.
All my music that I like is local, and will remain so until they slam the lid on me.
Sheldon
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Sigh, how true…
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I value local music VERY highly. OOP recordings, personal concerts, concerts by others, LP rips, etc.
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Absolutely! The majority of my albums locally aren’t available on streaming services in the format or version I want.
I buy the albums I like—that way the artist actually gets paid for his work.
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On the somewhat amusing front, I bought this album off an ebay seller recently because I couldn’t find it on Qobuz or Tidal. The day it arrives and I ripped it, it appeared on Qobuz. I don’t really begrudge the world anything - I’m an adult and I know how this works, and maybe this is in part why I have a local library. Because if it just appeared it’ll disappear too. But this wasn’t such an important recording for me that I would have paid $20 to avoid license flapping. If I was going to pay $20 for insurance I would have bought it for something else that I care more about. Like African Piano by Abdullah Ibrahim. or something. This Don Pullen is a fabulous album however if you haven’t heard it.
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Intrigued, so I tried to hunt it down. Not finding it on Qobuz (or Tidal, for that matter)… do you have a screenshot or Album ID for the album on either service?
cool, found it by searching for “Richard’s Tune”
weirdly, it doesn’t come up when i searched for Don Pullen. (And I searched for sweet malcolm and suite malcolm under albums, not tracks)
Thanks, I’ll check it out!
sorry for the derailment! Carry on!
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That must have been why I didn’t find it, and why I bought it. The album was reissued anyhoo, and renamed Richard’s Tune instead of the Solo Piano Album. Ok, this is a serious edge case. And now I own it anways! Sorry to everyone for the extended distration, carry on!
Yet another search idiosyncrasy? It does for me. Not on the first result page but under Albums > More and scroll down a little.
I keep local music because of copywriting. When the executives will become reasonable I’ll delete.
I hate the missing tracks in an album or the appearance - disappearance of a whole one.