In article , Bob Latham
wrote:

I've been using home network streaming now for 3 or 4 years and would
not go back to CDs. I have all of my music anywhere in the house at
anytime with no discs cluttering up the place and needing storage space.
Biggest step forward in practical home music ever, IMHO.

I can play a CD and hear it via the same sound systems I can use to play
files from a NAS. So have the choice. I keep the CDs I've ripped:

A) Just in case I need them again because I've lost the rips and their
backups.

B) Copyright. It seems fair enough to me to use a ripped copy for
convenience *provided* I don't sell or give away the source CDs. Doing than
and keeping the rips would be piracy in my view.

Similarly, I keep the LPs I've made files from.

It does save some space as I can forgo things like the CD cases. But still
have to store the CDs and LPs somewhere safe from damage.

Jim

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