Have you embraced Streaming?

whyaduck wrote: I have 100% totally embraced SELF Streaming via playback of rips of my CD, SACD, Vinyl from my on-premises NAS devices.

Yeah, same here. I can't think of a single reason I'd want to use Pandora, Spotify, etc. when I can put together my own playlists. I don't own
any "mobile devices" so those services are minimally useful to me anyway.

For listening while driving I take a slightly different approach...I put together these mix files using a freeware program called Zararadio. I
won't go into the boring details, but I'll let it run in roughly one hour segments, run thru some audio compression and saved as mp3 files that
I'll put on a flash drive. Since I'm an old-line radio guy, I'll have a jingle every 2nd or 3rd song, helps with what could be some trainwreck
segues.

Todd Ireland wrote: Warning: Do not ever become so complacent that you think you can rely solely on streaming services for all your music listening needs. Any songs that you do not physically own a copy of -- or at the very least have a lossless file copy securely saved and stored away on a hard drive -- are absolutely subject to being taken away from you at any point and time in the future by "the powers that be" (whoever they are at any point and time)!

Yeah. Bad enough with tv streaming services, they never seem to fail to drop a series just as I'm getting into the middle of it. I don't know if
the paid services are as bad, but the Roku channel is notorious for this. Sometimes a show will return at some later date, sometimes not.