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I ran Roon for a year and also ran HQPlayer on top of it. I bought myself an SGC i5 sonictransporter running Linux and attached an external 1TB SSD drive. I went down a similar journey about 3 years back and I started along a similar path. They may cease to exist at some point due to that lack of profitability, but suffice it to say if you are looking for the party responsible for poor compensation to both the streaming services and artists, that would have to be the record labels. The blame for the cloud streaming payment model to artists doesn't seemingly lie with those services per se, not when you consider none of them are profitable and never were. It's not impossible, and the old model wasn't always kind to artists either, sometimes just pennies per record depending on how good the artist's representation was at contract time. I don't want to hi-jack this thread on that topic, however I have heard a few compelling numbers-based arguments for why the cloud streaming services can make money for an artist.
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I had done exactly that until somewhat recently, and though I am now a Qobuz subscriber, the jury is still out there and I currently prefer accessing my locally stored files that are disc rips, over streaming from the cloud. Owners of an existing disc collection (including myself) have been able to skip the cloud-based streaming if they so choose. While many people choose to do both, some do only one or the other.
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Thats a different thing than streaming using a cloud-based service such as those listed above.
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This thread at least at the onset is going to be about storing a CD collection on a local server hard drive, and use of server and playback software that allows the CDs themselves to then be stored away. Tidal, Qobuz, Deezer, Amazon HD, etc) with what is known as streaming from a local server. I've used JRiver, Roon, Foobar2000 and Audirvana.You are conflating cloud-based streaming services (i.e. RE: Is There an Audiophile Music Player for Windows? - Dawnrazor 21:32:26 04/09/19 RE: Is There an Audiophile Music Player for Windows? - audioengr 11:26:38 04/09/19 RE: Is There an Audiophile Music Player for Windows? - DewDude 19:17:00 04/13/19
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"Man, that mouse is Awesome." - Kaemon (referring to Jerry, of Tom and Jerry fame) If you know of a quality player, please let me know. Is there such a thing as an "audiophile" music player for windows? I saw Media Monkey and something Bee mentioned but am unsure if any one is better than another. I initially thought the rip was bad but when I take the track in question back a few seconds the sonic mishap won't happen, which leads me to believe something with the Sony isn't quite working as it should. I thought I would use the Sony Music Player for listening on the computer, also, via a PS Audio headamp and an incoming PS Audio DAC but I've noticed that the Sony Music Center sometimes skips or chirps or makes a distortion-like sound.
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My music player currently is Sony Music Center, as I recently purchased a Sony ZX300 Walkman portable player. Had ripped all my CDs using Apple many years ago and recently decided to make a switch and re-rip all my CDs in FLAC uncompressed format using dwPoweramp.