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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
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saugertiesbob
49 posts
 

Wow, I'm impressed! You like your Quboz playlists enough to purchase them ??? How many songs do you have and what would the purchase price run for each and the entire playlists? 

 

I have probably a thousand songs in a dozen playlists in Quboz but candidly for the $20 a month Quboz costs I'm perfectly fine with stopping right there. I'd never consider buying them all. 

fatdaddy2
462 posts
 

No concern here.  I don't stream.

dynacohum
748 posts
 

If you have a Node N130 or Icon, I would NOT go into a Vault 2i, but why do you need more than an SSD NAS to host your local files?  Even a USB backup drive can plug directly into one of those Nodes.

moonwatcher
532 posts
 

Buying the music is great if the expense isn’t going to hurt your wallet too much, and hey, I'm sure it supports the artists far more, but as @ghdprentice noted, there are several third-party apps that can download your playlist as a .csv (Excel type spreadsheet file) or a .txt file for you to save to your PC.  Then you can import that list into other streaming providers and get most of what you have. 

I did that using TuneMyMusic when I finally got fed up with waiting on Spotify to go lossless and switched to Tidal. I think I only "lost" a very few albums, maybe 10 or 20 max. 

I subscribed to TuneMyMusic for a month, used it to download a .csv file, and do the transfer to Tidal, then I cancelled the service.  And I have an offline searchable database (the Excel file) to be able to remember what I enjoyed listening to. 

 

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