From the above post by amg56
“...CD’s backed up on a local hard dick (typically 2TB)...”
His streamer offers more features than mine.
My experience with Idagio was that it had a very limited catalog. For example, it may offer 5 versions of a Brahms Symphony, out of perhaps 200 currently available. One can logically argue the necessity of having 200 versions of a piece, but if they are available on other services, it would be nice to have. Tidal Classical offerings were described by another poster as “having been organized by a Chimp on Crystal Meth” and my trial suggested that might be an understatement. The first movement of the Beethoven Moonlight Sonata would be followed by Dukas Sorcerer Apprentice—you get the idea. I use Qobuz currently, which has a large catalogue and a reasonable search engine, although it can take multiple attempts to find something.
My bigger frustration is having an App that can find CDs once burned. The problem with Classical is that the algorithms designed for pop work terribly.
The Artist might be classified as the Composer, the Conductor, the Soloist, or the intern who fetched the recording engineer a cup of coffee. I have better luck locating a CD on my shelves than finding it in a streaming App, so I stopped disposing of them after I burned them, which defeats the initial purpose of getting into streaming. I get particularly frustrated with Bluesound and Bryston Manic Moose Apps because even editing the data in their app doesn’t do diddle—the program basically ignores the edits and stores it according to its own whims. At least with iTunes, once I edited something it stayed edited.
The best technique is to make a playlist. This is relatively easy with Bluesound, and I had created 20 or so, but then I had to do a Factory Reset to fix a hardware issue, and it wiped out the playlists.
I keep hoping that someone who enjoys Classical Music will invent a useful Universal App that can be used with any streamer. Until then, I have basically gone back to CDs
“...CD’s backed up on a local hard dick (typically 2TB)...”
His streamer offers more features than mine.
My experience with Idagio was that it had a very limited catalog. For example, it may offer 5 versions of a Brahms Symphony, out of perhaps 200 currently available. One can logically argue the necessity of having 200 versions of a piece, but if they are available on other services, it would be nice to have. Tidal Classical offerings were described by another poster as “having been organized by a Chimp on Crystal Meth” and my trial suggested that might be an understatement. The first movement of the Beethoven Moonlight Sonata would be followed by Dukas Sorcerer Apprentice—you get the idea. I use Qobuz currently, which has a large catalogue and a reasonable search engine, although it can take multiple attempts to find something.
My bigger frustration is having an App that can find CDs once burned. The problem with Classical is that the algorithms designed for pop work terribly.
The Artist might be classified as the Composer, the Conductor, the Soloist, or the intern who fetched the recording engineer a cup of coffee. I have better luck locating a CD on my shelves than finding it in a streaming App, so I stopped disposing of them after I burned them, which defeats the initial purpose of getting into streaming. I get particularly frustrated with Bluesound and Bryston Manic Moose Apps because even editing the data in their app doesn’t do diddle—the program basically ignores the edits and stores it according to its own whims. At least with iTunes, once I edited something it stayed edited.
The best technique is to make a playlist. This is relatively easy with Bluesound, and I had created 20 or so, but then I had to do a Factory Reset to fix a hardware issue, and it wiped out the playlists.
I keep hoping that someone who enjoys Classical Music will invent a useful Universal App that can be used with any streamer. Until then, I have basically gone back to CDs
