Do you count non physical product that are in your streaming library as part of "your collection"?

Mine’s good.

Like my streaming library?

 

No

 

NO

 

No

 

Yes
Yes
Yes

 

Not sure if this is you in the video below. Lots of car noise but you may still be able to hear the streaming:

 

No.

 

No.

Well, actually i don't use a streaming service. But all the music i downloaded and is only stored on my pc / external harddrive i don't count as part of my collection. When i put it on a cdr / dvdr with proper cover art then i do count it as part of my collection but list it as cdr /dvdr in stead of cd / dvd / lp.

 

No no no no no no

 

Yes yes yes yes yes yes.

A "library" is a library. Doesn't matter if it's a piece of 40 year old plastic or a modern stream. When you want to hear Bat Out Of Hell on demand, you can. They're both the same.

 

Still, fighting the good fight Philip?

 

I own over 400,000 books. My local library houses them for me, but I own them.

 

I'm so proud of you helping out your local library: They are important to the community and are invaluable to the distribution of knowledge and reference tools

 

I guess I’m starting to move past the idea of “a collection.”

What am I collecting for? There is no one who will want my collection of LPs and CDs after I’m gone. It’s passé, and my musical preferences are highly individualized to me and me alone.

Right now, there is just “the music I love.” How I access that music is almost beside the point. 30 or even 20 years ago, I shared “my collection” with others. That sort of thing doesn’t happen now. I tell people to go check out a specific thing on YouTube or on Spotify. There is no more trading. “Ownership” of music has no value or meaning any more.

 

I like how you state your opinions as if they were facts.

 

Sorry, did not mean to come across that way. Obviously everything I write is my own opinion and based on my own personal experience. I have always despised it when people present their opinions as fact, and have always tried very hard not to do so myself. I’m not sure why I am suddenly doing it now myself.

It’s probably best for me to bow out of this discussion now. It took a very long time for me to arrive at my opinion, which happened rather suddenly. Maybe you will experience the same sudden revelation yourself some day.

 

Hmm, doesn't look as though there's much love for your library Philip judging from the responses upthread. If you haven't already, add the mighty Zepp along with Jimi and you might get a few more likes.

What I can say is from here onwards given my recent experience with WMG concerning faulty Blue-ray discs in the Pink Floyd Immersion box sets, I will only buy music which is not available to stream apart from the odd exceptions such as the forthcoming Cream's Goodbye Tour box.

 

Right on, preach it, Sister Brownie. There is no point in "a collection" anymore, and hey, most of us have physical collections whose core is 30-50 years old anyway, those collections are done, they're over, it's not like we're going to covet the new Styx release, it's not like Tears For Fears is still relevant.

Streaming is a different way an audiophile can experience their collection, augmented by new recommendations that they wind up really liking. It's just amazing. It's why so many audiophiles have parked their old vintage setups in the garage and not looked back. Marantz and Pioneer had their day in the 80's, it's a new world now.

 

I'm an audiophile but I only listen to wax-cylinder recordings. But I'm still an audiophile. As an audiophile, sound quality doesn't matter to me.

 

I own every Jimi Hendrix and Led Zeppelin album ever made. I have a collection with 45,000,000 songs, the biggest on SHF.

 

This guy was a cool audiophile. He was into Huey Lewis, Phil Collins, and other audiophile stuff. But check out that equipment too. Definitely audiophile.

 

audiophile
noun
/ˈɑː.di.oʊ.faɪl/

A person who is very interested in and enthusiastic about equipment for playing recorded sound, and its quality.

HomePod
noun
/hom.p.ah.d/

An audiophile-level wi-fi smart speaker designed for audiophiles interested in reproducing their streaming collections.

 

Definitely not: look at those unbalanced EQ sliders

 

A discerning audiophile knows which system his Huey Lewis music sounds best on.

 

Philp, I love ya like a brother but come on

(HomePod. A Siri virtual assistant and wireless speaker from Apple. ... HomePod is also a hub for controlling lights and accessories in the automated home. See smart speaker, virtual assistant and smart home.)