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Every “major” US symphony concert stage / venue I’ve attended is fully armed with audio recording infrastructure. Every sound is being saved for later use either by live or delayed “live” performance streaming or eventual release on some physical audio-video media ( CD, SACD, BluRay, vinyl and etc ).
The issue is and remains how to best monetize the “digital” data to “best” reward the artists and their producers ( as well as the “data” distributors ). Physical formats come and go but the “data” remains and will always have value it is just a question of how much!
In my opinion, music streaming services are very cheap, and should cost more. I like owning music, i.e. I purchase albums when I like them in the hopes that the artist gets paid.
Sub $20 dollar per month is a joke, for all the music you can access, without any limits.
I support the idea of different price tiers, and also, what if there was a limit to how many times you can play one and the same track/album? After a certain number, say 3, you will need to purchase it.
It would only be fair to the artist, since they get peanuts currently.
I agree his idea of the Netflix style system of an ever changing library is awful.
I shop with my conscience as well, I won’t use Spotify nor Apple any circumstances, just my personal choice.
It also doesn’t help that some people are just tight fisted, they want something for relatively nothing. There has been outrage on this forum when a huge discount on a streaming service abruptly ended and people were asked to pay the full price.
I have a friend, he works with me, has a good, secure job, earns maybe £50k, he subscribes to Spotify via a Filipino VPN set up by a friend over there, to save what, a few pounds a month.
Sorry to rant a bit but music is not free, we’ve still got the option to buy music only, like the old days, I remember the days before cd, but my music collection was tiny.
We now have the GIFT of streaming, we either get on board with Qobuz, Deezer, Tidal, or they will vanish and we will be left with just the big names.
If they revert to a Netflix style system and someone wants to listen to a release that’s not available, they may well just download it, the major Russia based torrent sites are still there, no one touches them.
And lots of us use VPN these days, getting caught is unlikely.
I’m not condoning this activity btw, I just think it will be a consequence of restricting lawful availability.
I continue to acquire music in CD form and use both a Roon Core and a NAIM Uniti Core for that purpose. For me, streaming is essential so along as it (1) provides quality of sound and (2) information allowing for the identification of additional music you want to hear. I use only Tidal and Apple Music as streaming serves. The former is for what I describe above and for its synergy with Roon. Apple Music talks to some of our speakers and is easier to use for some members of the household.
I use a NAIM Uniti Core to store my CDs as Wav files. They sound amazing on my Cambridge Amp and Bowers and Wilkins speakers. Roon Nucleus manages all the saved files and establishes playlists and I can access those files even when not at home through Roon Arc.
My view on this is :
1 Streaming is there to stay
2 when every streaming service has the same content to offer in the same quality ( it’s moving in. that direction) then metadata + pricing is all what is left
3 next step ( it is a matter of time ) is that we move all music to one central cloud location and your streaming service just create a tunnel for us the end user to get to that content.
4 I would not be surprised that a company like Sony who owns many music content is going to be on of those cloud provider.
With content no longer stored on the streaming companies own servers they must focus more an more on additional info related to the music we are listing to.
Perhaps there will even be a connection with the audio hardware you are buying ?.
I would not be surprised if Roon will become a player in this field.
You can, but I prefer wired sound. Did discover today there is BBC Sounds app for Windows but only available for Windows 11 - don’t know if it will access network speakers
Airplay is wired if it’s going to the node, WiFi from phone to router then wired to node. I would very much doubt using airplay will change much to an all ready lossy stream but if it’s stability your after then I can understand that.
I don’t stream, can’t find many music I own, and the ones they have, I own in higher resolution. I own more than 60k songs, 70% in hi-res and 30% CD quality. No interest in investing in a good streamer and good cables.
I had to try the streaming services just to see how they sounded
I’m old fashioned. I like owning the music I play
I like owning the films and TV series I watch
I’ve a massive bluray and 4k bluray collection. Quality is so much higher than streams.
I used to have my own music business and sell rare underground prog, psych and krautrock. Consequently in addition to collecting music since the 70s I’ve also acquired a large amount of music via my business. When I quit I kept much of the music.
I like quality. When travelling I have my music on my phone. I don’t stream via a service.
Amazon keep bugging me with free offers for their music service. They’ve offered 6 months
Why wouid I want a substandard source like amazon.
I’ve used spoty, tidal, qubit and not been impressed.
I’ve tried Netflix, prime and the same applies when it comes to quality.
Streaming services not only own the music but they own the people who subscribe.
I’m old fashioned and like to own myself.
Self empowerment is a wonderful thing.
If that makes me an anachronism then I’m proud to be so.
I’ve noticed this too… your tv is probably already hooked up to some sort of sound system, its familiar, and you get nice album art/lyrics/whatever on the screen - lots of my friends seem to be doing this now. Perhaps this is why Harman/Samsung just bought Roon?