First of all, most people don't have music ripped from CDs sitting on a hard drive, and that was the primary source of music on drives.
Naah.... tons of folks got music on drives from tons of other sources (I hear Apple made a buck or two selling digital music for example- plus folks from back in the napster days
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If I had 10,000 CDs that would be all I could listen to. That sounds like a lot, but what about the new albums?
What about them? They sell NEW music too ya know. LIke, to actually own.
And ripping CDs itself is an issue, computers don't have drives anymore because it is OBSOLETE.
Right- which is why you buy a digital copy to start with.
It sounds like your knowledge of obtaining owned music stops around 1996 or something.
Second, the streaming services don't just download to a hard drive and let you do what you want with them. You can't put them on a stick because of copyright laws. They allow you to download music for offline listening but only through the service software. If you don't have an account you can't listen to them. You may be able to get around this by downloading everything and killing your account and using the software when not connected. There may be a time limit on this though and the link would expire. Third, I get all the new music I'll ever want over streaming. Much of it I listen to once and never again. Some of it has become my favorite. Fourth, the services offer suggestions on other music to hear. I don't always agree with their selection but that's why we sample.
I mean, I get using streaming to find entirely new stuff you'd never have heard of otherwise... .but at that point there's 2 paths:
1) It sucks, you don't like it, you won't want to hear it again, and the fact it's not HIGH quality isn't really relevant.
or
2) It's good, you DO like it, and WILL want to hear it again. In which case owning it might be worthwhile. And you can do so in max quality too.
Fifth, it is lossless CD quality. Is your FLAC any better?
Yes, it is (or rather it can be, depends what the master was of course)
. And just what is USB music?
It's music... played off a USB drive.... which can be as high quality as you wish, since the car will natively play entirely lossless HQ formats like FLAC.
Not sure how that's confusing to you?
Plus- unlike Tidal apparently... USB music can be shuffled
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You've been arguing about flac on a stick since I joined this board. It's obsolete. Get over it.
Apparently it's not, since it keeps giving me fantastic lossless results I'm happy with- and you keep being mad about the low quality streaming you're listening to.
Thus I've been enjoying perfect quality music for years- and you still aren't and still appear upset about it.
I don't think I'm the one needing to get over something
Spotify and slacker sound terrible imo.
@Knightshade I don't mind listening to music on USB but in my old age this means I listen to the same stuff over and over. No new music. The interface is better in Spotify/tidal/slacker then USB music as well..
See above for my thoughts on using streaming to discover new stuff you might like, then owning it if you do since you'll want to hear it more in the future and can insure doing so at highest quality easily that way.
FWIW I've got hundreds of gigs of HQ music-- so "same stuff over and over" is a LOT of listening before I'd hear the same thing twice if I just went through it song by song.
