Thoughts and suggestions please


I only stream and have spent 3 years building my playlist. I have recently been thinking about purchasing my playlist on Qobuz in the event something happens (they go out of business or some major crash) that would lose what I have spent so much time building. Is this a concern for others as well? If I do decide to purchase my list I would need a new streamer with storage capacity. I am looking for suggestions for streamers. I have an N130 node now with Teddy Pardo LPS. I like the BluOS app and am considering a new Node with storage but with all the positive feedback with Innuous and Aurrender I will strongly consider those too. Do their apps compare favorably with the BluOS app? I’d like to stay in the 3-5k cost range.  Thank you for your thoughts. 
 

Ron 
 

 

 

ronboco

Showing 1 response by oberoniaomnia

Your concern about disappearing music on your playlist is justified. Consider artists leaving streaming services (yes, it has happened: see story for instance here https://www.midiaresearch.com/blog/some-artists-are-leaving-spotify-again-heres-whats-different-now), a new remix being substituted for your beloved OG version, etc. 

I only play purchased digital files locally. If you play minor, living-active, artists, there is also the aspect of supporting those artists with your $$$ as opposed to some corporate exec salary.

Re local storage, there are packaged options like the nook, aurender etc. or you can go home grown. I use a Mac mini running Roon. Then you *may* be able to feed the local files via USB into your existing streamer. Alternatively, you can also only get a DAC. With computer - DAC route, the advantage is separation of components and independent swapping, the disadvantage is having more components. Typical trade-off situation. I want more flexibility with occasional digitizing vinyl, so need a computer anyway.