Qobuz or Tidal? Can someone explain the benefits?

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Fellow Roonites,

I know that I’m way off the back when contemplating Streaming sites. I still buy CD’s and then rip them to my MAC Mini…How could I benefit from joining a streaming service? It does not seem to be cheaper and I can find everything I look for on CD…so I guess I just don’t get it …

I hope someone can explain it to this idiot…

Thanks,

Larry

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There’s probably lot’s to say about it, but the basics:

It’s like renting a CD collection (hundreds of thousands or millions of CDs) for $20/month. It’s only cheaper to buy CDs if you buy one or two a month. Granted, you don’t get to keep all the “rented” CDs, but while you are a subscriber, you can “favorite” any you like and they will look to you like they are part of your physical collection (through Roon anyway).

HTH

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Hey HTH,

Thanks for the explanation…So the moment you stop paying the monthly fee…all your downloads disappear?

Thanks again!
Larry

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Yes They do. And they are not downloads. You are streaming the files, so need a robust internet connection.

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They are not really downloads. They don’t exist on your harddrive. You stream them from their servers.

HTH stands for “Hope that helps” by the way (BTW). I can see how it looks like a signature though! :crazy_face:

If one turns out to be a must have, I’ll buy it. Most music I like for a while then revisit very occasionally, if at all. When you constantly have new music to explore and play, having a physical collection becomes less important, IMO.

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Thanks Gary and Mr Strisik…hope that’s your name…

Thanks for the amusing answers…I have Fiber connection (Sonic)…though I do not get the advertised One Gigabit I do get from 500 to 800Mbps so I think I’m covered there…though for what ever reason…it still does not seem like a service I want…but maybe I’ll try it just to check it out…

Thanks for all the help…another great feature of this great community!