I agree, digital music storage is the way forward for convenience that's primarily why I went that route however, I now miss browsing my cd and vinyl collection. Browsing the music collection on the Sonos or PC just is not the same, maybe it is just nostalgia.
Yea, I understand, but growing up in the cd age I don't have any nostalgia for vinyl and I don't like how it sounds anyway.
I also don't miss having to load up cd's and sort though them to find what I'm looking for either. I had a 300 cd Jukebox player in the late 90's that held all my cd's at the time, but it was still a pain to wait for it to rotate to get to a cd, much less use it on shuffle!
I think you're absolutely correct on that one, an unstoppable tide, the future of music and hi-fi.
Hopefully. So much easier and convenient and even indestructible (as long as you have hard drive back ups).
But this is one of the reasons some people, myself included, stubbornly cling to the old, inconvenient ways, however illogical. Basically, I'm a physical media guy. Yet I do not deny that the ultimate resolution will be achieved with server-based systems in coming years.
It's not illogical, it's just emotion based. These two things don't always conflict.
However, as you know, I totally question that anything will ever get better than the 16/44.1 resolution of the redbook cd so I don't care about that, at least as of now, until solid evidence is presented for these "hi-res" formats. So the ultimate in hi-fi resolution is here and now and has been for almost 30 years: redbook cd. In the last 10 years or so we now just have the option to get rid of the physical cd and still retain all the fidelity. And for those who think vinyl is still the best fidelity, they can also rip it to lossless and rid themselves of all physical copies. Both cd or vinyl based lossless are at least much more convenient than the physical forms, but I understand those who like that as well. I just don't.
But not to go off topic here.
Plus, my lp and CD collections have been so carefully and lovingly assembled, I couldn't bear to give them up.
I sold many cd's back years ago except the "essentials". Couldn't care less about not having them now, physical copy, even if many I bought just as I was getting into music and thus were "special". Even my cherished Rush cd collection of which I bought 2 copies of each by the time I was 20 (original pressings and then all the remasters that came out in '97), sit in a cabinet I haven't opened since I ripped them years ago. Album art work is online!