Building your music digital music collection

I see no reason to store files. If the system that provides our music goes down, we'll have much larger problems.

Yeah, I too question your premise that ripped music will sound better than uncompressed music from the likes of Qobuz and Tidal.  And as @ghdprentice mentioned, and especially with Qobuz, you can get tons of music in hi res in addition to full 16/44.1 CD resolution.  Personally I think building an offline library is a waste of time, but that’s me.

I ripped my cd collection, other wise it’s LPs or stream from Q.

@hilde45 what if Q goes down not the entire inter web? 

@saurabhgarg

Building a music library makes sense if,

1) you own a large enough collection of rare CD’s that are sourced from analog masters and currently not available on Qobuz/Tidal. I own over 500 such albums, majority of them still not available on any streaming services and sounds much superior than streaming counterparts.

2) you plan to buy DSD downloads….do this if your system is high resolution and you can honestly tell apart DSD from Qobuz stream, otherwise Qobuz files in 24bit/192kHz is pretty darn good for most part.

I have hundreds of CDs I ripped and I’ve downloaded many files from Qobuz and HDTracks with the intention of doing just what you are planning.  That quickly lost steam once I started to stream with Qobuz and Tidal.  I now almost exclusively stream from those two services.  There are titles I cannot find on either and I use my local files when I want to hear those.  It’s so easy to go down rabbit holes on either service finding new music and listening for hours.  I particularly like the related artists and albums both services provide.