Building your music digital music collection


Hello all, just looking for some pointers on how to go about building your own storage library of music which is better than digital streaming (tidal/qobuz). I guess it is the uncompressed wav files or maybe dsd where applicable. From what I understand Flac is compressed. 

I am doing just streaming now, but I think having offline collection and room might be useful. 

saurabhgarg

Showing 1 response by milpai

While I agree with others, I also have ripped a few hundred CDs as FLACs and about 150 SACDs as DSF files. I use Foobar2000 and have configured it to output DSD 512. I like that. I still download albums that I REALLY love and they go to my media library. My setup is using the audio server that I have built myself.

Most people use Roon to stream Tidal and Qobuz. I do not do that, since I use Spotify. Its quality is not as good as Tidal/ Spotify, but it has many albums/songs not available in those 2 services. While I am an audiophile, I prefer to choose music over quality. And as others have said above - rare CDs or albums not available on streaming might be a good reason for you to build your own library.