A word of warning, about Spotify music service

[John_Carrick]

Thanks for the information. Another reason to like CDs and vinyl!

[Jack Daw]

I recently upgraded my "Home Theatre" with a Yamaha AVR that will play Spotify, XMSirius, etc. I've toyed with it a bit, but, I'm a die-hard CD audiophile. So, I bought a new CD player to replace my old Sony.

[ctbuchanan]

Thanks for the information. Another reason to like CDs and vinyl!

I like my CD and LP collection and I know this isn't what you were thinking John, but it would be pretty awkward carrying around 333 LPs (Avg LP contained 10 songs) or 222 CDs (15 songs each). Not to mention the device to play them.

All in all getting over 3,000 songs on a single device is pretty amazing coming from my day when I carried my 45s in a small case to my girlfriend's house. How different it is today.

But just a note - I use Spotify and literally never download to my phone. I just stream the music and it is never ending.

[Mathew MacKillop]

I'm just glad that I ripped all of my old CDs to digital versions, and have kept them all on my external hard drive ever since, to be loaded into whatever device I choose. I have something like 125GB of music, and have never had to purchase any of it from itunes, spotify, or any other online service. I purchased all the CDs in stores long ago, and even though I no longer have most of the discs (that's the problem with CDs and the old car CD players...the discs get lost and damaged!), I still have the music that I paid for, and can digitally preserve my collection and anything I add to it. Let's just hope my hard drive doesn't die on me before giving enough warning for me to transfer that huge file!

[MacEanruig]

What? Nobody has a collection of records anymore?

[unixken]

What? Nobody has a collection of records anymore?

What? People still have turntables? LOL

[Blupiper]

What? People still have turntables? LOL

Yes and some of us stored them with the turntable locked in the late 1980's. Everything still works, but can't find the owner's manual or remember how to unlock the turntable. There's your LOL.

JMB

[chewse]

I recently uninstalled Spotify from my computer. The streaming music (as well as spyware/ads in the service) was causing my computer's performance to degrade to a point where I couldn't to any other work on my computer without long delays in response. Loading my CD on my computer to listen to works better for me.