I have at least 3k vinyl, over 3.5K cd's, I'm completely overwhelmed with storing all these albums, cd's don't take up quite so much space. I have albums stored all over house, most will never get played again. Accessing and playing this much physical media is a complete hassle, and I'm pretty much forced to listen through an entire side with vinyl, not going to skip tracks or only play one track. And if I do play an entire side, I'm only listening to very limited number of artists/albums over an entire listening session. All my cd's ripped so cd plays pretty much exactly like streams. Between vinyl, cd rips and streams I have a huge library of music to listen to, streaming absolutely necessary in order to hear a wide variety of the music i love. And streaming sound quality doesn't have to take a back seat to any physical media. In my present situation, I've determined physical media to be an obsolete means to hear vast majority of all the fine music in my streaming libraries.
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