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Old 12th Jul 2021, 11:42 pm   #59
jamesperrett
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Default Re: The end of physical media.

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Originally Posted by GrimJosef View Post
I went to a hifi day put on by a chap whose only music source was his subscription to one of the big providers (Spotify, possibly ?). I'd taken a couple of CDs with me and asked if I could play the title track from the King General album Money Run Tings https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lTe-s23tc78. "Sorry" he said, "not on my streaming service". Hmmm. Then I asked for Chris Jones' Set 'Em Up Joe https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y4hegzsIRTI. They didn't have that either. I wandered away thinking "Nul points ...".
It was probably a specialist service supplying lossless audio as both of those artists are on Spotify with hundreds of thousands of plays in the case of the King General track. Spotify don't offer lossless streaming at the moment although I wouldn't be surprised to see this change in the future.
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