Do you buy music or stream?

Like most people today, I tend to stream music rather than play physical media, but streaming services pay artists very little money.

So I occasionally buy physical media. So far this year I have bought eight new CD’s and a few second hand vinyl albums.

I rip my CD’s to Flac and import them into Roon to manage, thus I can stream them when out on my phone and around the house to any Roon end point.

So every few months I run a report in Roon on my listening, and any artist that comes up high on the list I go out and buy their CD. I have a physical copy and they get paid better.

Recently we had workmen digging up the road and they cut through the main fibre optic cable delivering broadband to the village.

We have very poor mobile phone signal in the village so suddenly no streaming services. With the several hundred CD’s I own ripped to my own media server I could still stream to devices around the house.

I also buy DVD’s still. These are also ripped to file and held on my media server, so we could still stream movies from our own library.

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