Are you more musically experimental with n-Serve/n-Stream?

Graeme, absolutely. Streaming is a real boon to the music lover, it so easy to delve into remoter corners of your CD collection.. It's probably not too much of an exaggeration to say since I started streaming CDs my recorded music enjoyment has been transformed.. And the number of CDs I buy has hugely increased on a monthly basis. I am freed from the burden of cueing records and loading CDs and other 'hifi' paraphernalia, which apart from reading sleeve notes got in the way of actually listening and enjoying my music, but horses for courses and I do understand many get a lot of satisfaction of cueing records and spinning discs. 

Simon

Graeme,

   Have to agree big time.

I really enjoy using n serve on the ipad, and treating it like a random juke box, just flick the finger and see what album it lands on,

Get some really nice surprises

Paul

Agreed, although I'm in the early days of streaming and had been frozen with only 238 albums ripped for a while. That's sorted now and I've been spending much of this weekend loading CDs into the server. However, I have found that I've been inclined to create lists of single tracks selected on the fly. Until I started streaming I always had the habit of listening to an album all the way through and I'm now actually feeling a bit guilty for selecting favourite tracks! Maybe I'll revert to my normal practice when the novelty has worn off...

CB

Agree with the above comments - I'd hate to have to go back to cds, they belong in the loft as last resort backups!

I'm definitely listening to more albums which were rarely played when I was just using CD.

the convenience encourages experiment.

like others, I'm also buying more music as well.

Strange really, but true and very satisfying!

Same here! 

Me too. My biggest 'problem' these days is actually deciding what to select and play, what with the dusty corners of my CD collection having been opened up, all my other music files on the NAS available through my US/n-Serve, Internet radio stations, etc, etc.

I find that I listen to tracks that I had previously written off during listens in previous years. Amazing how tastes can change over the years!

And streaming and n-Serve have been the perfect tools to enable this.

nStream definately changed the way I play and discover music. Especially the latter - given quite some albums - came with nStream. When listening to a nice song or album, I tend to read the album background info. Very often too, I try some of the albums from "comparable" artists which brought me some positive surprises so far.

iver

Same story in these parts. Assembling a diverse queue is great fun too. 

Having assessed enjoyment per pound from a music reproduction POV and become convinced that streaming had the most to offer, the versatility which comes with using, say an iPad to manage it is a big and welcome bonus. But only a bonus.

Superuniti and n-Serve: for me a paradigm shift, liberating voyage of discovery and re-discovery, and a one-way street 

I agree with all the above posts. When I started out with streaming (on a Sonos thru SN) I was suddenly playing stuff that I'd forgotten I had.

however, there is a corollary too this; I now find that I rarely listen to an entire album. It's just too easy to flip from one thing to another. When I was spinning cd's, if there was a track I didn't like I would bear with it, but now I reach straight for the ipad.

steve

Thanks for the input, most interesting.

FWIW I still listen to complete albums in the main. G

Another important way to discover new music is internet radio. Maybe one day I will end up with Spotify or something similar, but I would still like a kind of cd collection instead of too many choices, just playing a lot of randum songs.

Like many of you I have now ripped hundreds and hundreds of silver discs and perhaps like you I have found another music resource I didn't know existed - her indoors' CD's.