I Sold my CD Player!!! Streaming sounds so incredible!!!

I thought old Linda had run out of money...I could be mistaken. Oops. I should have asked her myself but I lost her number.

I still have 100% of my vinyl and about 95% of my CD collection. I sold off a few CDs years ago knowing I would never listen to them again (mostly CD singles). I stream about 95% of the time as well.

I still have a ton of DJ only/promo CDs that I will not part with and still listen to them on my vintage system. These promo CDs will not end up on any streaming services---they're too rare. They're still fun to listen to and they have a lot of good memories to me. And even if they did end up on Spotify, I'd still keep them. Glad you're enjoying your streamer.

Here’s a true example of how musician’s are used and abused by the music biz:

In the late-60’s Bill Graham held auditions at The Fillmore Auditorium on Monday nights. Numerous bands played a set, and those chosen were given an opening slot on a regular night. The Fillmore was a union house, so to perform there you had to be in the Musician’s Union.

I knew the guys in one San Jose band who joined the Union just to play the Fillmore audition. They were paid whatever the amount was that Graham was paying, and waited to hear if they would get a regular night gig. They instead heard from the Musician’s Union, who informed the band that all the members were being fined for paying below union scale.

So Graham let the band members know they had to be Union members to play The Fillmore, then paid them less than union scale for doing so, presumably knowing they would then be fined.

Another Bill Graham story:

When Graham was closing The Fillmore he booked all the San Francisco bands that had played there over the years for a grand finale. Dan Hicks inquired as to whether he would be included, and was told by Bill no, that Dan & His Hot Licks Band did not "assault the senses" of the audience.

Speaking of San Francisco bands: Jerry Miller of Moby Grape passed away a few weeks back. I went to a Portland club about a month earlier to see him live, glad I did.

I’ve been streaming for almost 20 years, using Apple iTunes, amarra, pure music, audirvana, lightning DS, Lumin, and now Roon. 5 years ago when I upgraded my dac that uses i2s and Ethernet, running dsd and MQA, I sold all my vinyl and all my analog gear that cost me $20k, and haven’t regretted it 1 bit. Running pure music and audirvana back in the middle 2000’s, I sold my $3500 Classe cd player. Still have my Sony few thousand $$$ sacd player but haven’t turned it on for over a decade if not longer

My last computer died. When trying to have it repaired, I was informed it was not repairable!  I lost so much data, I was close to tears. Now every 3 months I download all new files to my collection of USB's. Which is in a dedicated draw.

Are your music files securely backed up against such a failure?

Or am I living in the past? Or do you believe that the new technology is (perhaps) fail proof? I am close to buying a new SACD player. If it dies, I still have my CD collection. And by the way, I don't have a TT, and never will.

Thanks for reading this, I'm new.  IAN.