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What is really the purpose of streaming??

What is really the main purpose on streaming?? Is it just a big convenience to have music and artists at your fingertips? Is it that you get a better sound than cds? What if you have a cd player with an exceptional DAC built in like the Rega Saturn R . To me when cds came out i never looked back on my LPs. I thought cd playback was the best. Now i hear alot of streaming talk. Can someone clarify this to me ? 
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glennewdick
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I've let my Tidal Subscription laps when i'm away (sometimes for months, Navy) and when I re-sub all my stuff is still there as it was before. I have not listened to a CD since I started with Tidal/Roon why bother. most times I think of a CD and first look on Tidal if its there I don't even bother getting out the CD as its either the same sampling rate as red book or better and most times there is multiple versions of the same CD's but various remasters etc.

I personally feel disc spinners are dead tech.

When Vinyl is out selling CD's time to move on. I've been putting my CD's on a hard drive as well so they are also accessible with tidal/roon.

Lastly CD's are plastic and plastics are a huge bane on out planet and ecosystem (I've seen the floating islands of plastic in the oceans) so any time we can move away from making more its a good thing imo.

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glennewdick
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Oh and yes you can transfer songs from Tidal to your drive. I've never used this so maybe someone else can chime in here. I use tidal in my home system and have the app on my phone so I have it in portable mode this is where storing the files on your drive comes in so you can dl them using wifi and not use your data.
schubert
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Excellent post on plastic bane glennewdick .
Congrats !
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don_1
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I stream for pre purchase of CDs, SACD's and for convenience of listening to music I would not necessarily purchase.  In addition to my computer streamer with the audioquest Firefly, my amazon Dot is great as a streamer to my Bluetooth speakers. I can get Instant back round music for just about any genre.  Love it all! 
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jond
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@lowrider57 you can't download anything from Tidal but on the app you can have an offline queue where you essentially do download stuff but you can only access it through the app. I do that on my phone so I can listen to stuff when I travel if I don't have wifi or a cell signal.
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