Reddit reviews Shostakovich Under Stalin's Shadow - Symphonies Nos. 5, 8 & 9; Suite From "Hamlet" (Live)

> Lol sorry but you cannot tell the difference between 320 kbps mp3s (spotify) and a cd. You cant. Dont kid yourself.

yes, i can. and when you account for other factors, like hardware, yes you can. there's no way for me to actually prove to you whether i can or can't, so i'm not even going to worry about that.

>and its blatantly obvious lossless streaming is coming to all platforms in the near future, anyway

i bit and went and looked around for some evidence of this, and i can't find anything, so i have no idea what you're basing that off, especially as a "blatantly obvious" thing. show me something. i'd be happy to know that this is actually happening. but again:

>Bye bye data and battery. Unless cell phone companies start bringing back unlimited data commonly, your suggestion here is moot in the context of the market share for wireless services.

not every company has unlimited data, but if you're going to use your streaming service to its fullest, you would probably want to have an unlimited data plan because if you're streaming lossless, it's going to eat up data like mad, not to mention your battery.

>I much prefer to click two buttons and listen to any recording ever made

good lord, i can't count the number of times i've spent five minutes looking for a decent recording i know exists, only to find that it's not on any streaming service, much less the ones i subscribe to. not every service has an identical catalog, so you're stuck with what you subscribe to. that aside from the fact that not every recording that's been made has been transferred from analog formats. you want to talk about not kidding yourself? it's with this. that's not even to get started on metadata, which is horrendous for streaming services, generally.

>then continue to have to spend 20 dollars for each recording

not sure i see that many brand new recordings that are $20. here's one that you can get brand new for well under $20. here's another. oh, hey, and that one isn't even on spotify because streaming comes with a boatload of issues you aren't even bringing up. plenty of used record stores out there, too. and the heck with collectors.

look, i'm not saying streaming is valueless. far from it! there's a lot of convenience with it, and a crazy amount available to us as long as we have access to the service (which, that's not guaranteed). but this:

>There is virtually no benefit now to physical media over streaming, and definitely no benefit to buying digital media.

is ignoring the reality we live in, which is that (contrary to what you seem to think) not everything is in a streamable catalog, and not everything will be. and if you look at something like netflix, the catalog of which fluctuates, you realize that licensing doesn't guarantee that everything will be on there forever. that you think "any recording ever made" will be on streaming services shows a limitation to your experience or knowledge or something, which is sort of ironic given the subreddit we're in here. there is a huge amount of historical recordings that are still stuck on vinyl and CD. does that mean that those formats are inherently better? obviously not. my point is that streaming is not the only format we will (or should) use in the future, and there are so many reasons why. if you've ever been to club, that's a prime example scenario against a streaming-only future. or a presentation where you need a clip of something. or a scenario where internet is not readily available. i could go on...