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Tidal, Deezer

Could someone with experience with music subscription services please advise. My confusion is that these music services advertise that you can download music for offline listening. Wouldn't that be putting music files in your storage...creating a music library? I have had itunes and rhapsody, both of which you can download music files into your computer. Surely there must be others you can do the same? Thanks for any advice
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Hey uberwaltz - 
You might be right but I have to stop short of saying "anything offline" as I've only tried offline Spotify access with iOS devices...MacBook, iPhone and iPod.  I'm kinda surprised about Tidal not working in similar fashion. I wonder if it has to do with file sizes.   Ogg Vorbis format used by Spotify crunches things down to a pretty small file size.  
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Can anyone tell me what the fascination is with "downloading files"?
I guess owning music? Is better than streaming music? I find that by exploring hundreds of artists on the fly and listening is very enjoyable.
I don't see any benefit to building my own library of music, when I have a much bigger, growing library of music at my fingertips ready to be streamed??? Especially with the quality of many Tidal MQA albums...
peter_s
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I've heard very good things about Qobuzz, better SQ than Tidal.  Anyone have direct experience?
audioengr
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I don't see any benefit to building my own library of music, when I have a much bigger, growing library of music at my fingertips ready to be streamed???

that is fine as long as Tidal stays in business...


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If not Tidal there will always be somebody else.
Whether we like it or not streaming is here for keeps and will only get faster, higher sq, more variety.
Its what they call progress even if  not all of us like and embrace it.......
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