The thing about streaming services is that their license for a particular artist or body of work comes and goes. Kind of how things are always showing up and disappearing on Netflix.
The other thing is reliability. The local file will never suffer from the same kind of network outages and jitter issues of streaming nor the Wifi streaming issues we encounter in a congested area.
Having said that, about 70% of the music I listen to is streamed. I still on occasion buy files, especially DSD's from
https://bluecoastrecords.com/
which is another reason, AFAIK there is no DSD streaming service since the files are too big.
So I do think local storage for purchased music is useful for me I barely use 500Gigs.
Best
Erik
The other thing is reliability. The local file will never suffer from the same kind of network outages and jitter issues of streaming nor the Wifi streaming issues we encounter in a congested area.
Having said that, about 70% of the music I listen to is streamed. I still on occasion buy files, especially DSD's from
https://bluecoastrecords.com/
which is another reason, AFAIK there is no DSD streaming service since the files are too big.
So I do think local storage for purchased music is useful for me I barely use 500Gigs.
Best
Erik