Game Changer - Spotify lossless flac stream €15/ month

Posted by: Sloop John B on 08 February 2013

OK it may not be quite there yet, but by a similar law to Moore's Law it really is when rather than if. 

 

It may not even be Spotify but someone will do it. 

 

And when it happens not alone would CDs become obsolete but why would one bother to rip to NAS if they are all there in a big NAS in the sky. 

 

Streaming is the future but maybe not quite as it is imagined at the moment. 

 

I don't know if I would particularly like where we would end up, being nearly 50 and a bit of traditionalist, but the logic of the way things are progressing seems to me to point to Spotify being a bigger game changer than mp3, CD or even Baked Beans. 

 

Posted on: 08 February 2013 by jobseeker
I can see the principle but I think we're many years away in practical terms
Posted on: 08 February 2013 by Guido Fawkes

Apple Radio will be with us soon ... I hope it delivers. 

Posted on: 08 February 2013 by garyi

The issue then (as always) comes down to the quality of your 'pipe'

 

I have 100meg into the house with 5 meg up and to be fair its pretty consistent. But then I am in Andover, birth place of telewest later to become virgin, the building where they maintain this bit of the country is but a stones throw away. 

 

Yet in the past year have suffered a couple of outtages, one that took a day.

 

For those on any less than 10-13 meg broadband, forget all this stuff, you are too slow.

 

Also you can bet that apple radio and any other service offering high bitrate services will be subject to variable bandwidth, i.e. peek times the quality will drastically reduce. 

 

Home storage is so bloody cheap now, I have a HP proliant which cost 100 quid after rebate and four 1.5tb drives at 50 quid each plus another two for back up. £400 for 6TB of data, 3 backed up. 

 

Yes I come from an age where I have hundreds of CDs already and the tech being proposed is not aimed at me, but for all those 'me's' out there, its not expensive to have your own cloud (my music is accessible when out and about)

Posted on: 08 February 2013 by m0omo0

Qobuz does this for €29, so it's already here. Or not, depending on your take on the price.

Posted on: 08 February 2013 by BigH47

I helped on the integration and commissioning of telewest Andover, I'm sure the outages were not my fault.  

Posted on: 08 February 2013 by garyi

Touch wood Andover has been awesome, I bent over and took it for another year from Virgin, only to find out some American outfit has bought them out! 

 

Hope they can handle me as I am too real.