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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
easola01
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2psyop
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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...


Steve N.

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uberwaltz
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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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easola01 OP
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Reason for music library:

You go to your streaming service one day to listen to your favorite Brian Eno album, and it is gone. Eno is gone, because of licensing changes/disagreements. The idea of streaming is wonderful to me for discovering new music, and also for listening. But I would hate to lose my favorite music just because my streaming service dropped my artist/album.
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