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Originally Posted by tubemonkey
I rarely listen to music when away from wifi (except car radio), so streaming satisfies most of my needs (AOL Radio, Pandora, Prime Music, etc). If I want to listen to a particular song, it's YouTube.
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Originally Posted by Jessica Lares
Yeah, well understand that most of us here took the time to dig out all our CDs and copy them to our computers, and probably spent hundreds to thousands on digital albums over the years. If we didn't have a passion for our existing music libraries, we wouldn't be so bothered by this.
Telling us to stream our stuff is like telling a film enthusiast to settle for Netflix.
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One of the main reasons I purchase music and store it locally is so I always have it available. Although YouTube is a great resource for music (I've purchased a number of albums due to what I've happened upon while looking around YouTube), one thing I've learned through experience is that a YouTube video can disappear at any time without warning. I've located a number of YouTube videos for songs that I like that have since disappeared (such as "I Need To Be In Love" by Akiko Kobayashi) that are not available for purchase.
As far as wireless goes, I rarely listen to music wirelessly since I don't have ready access to wifi and rarely listen to over-the-air radio for anything other than the occasional talk show. My only practical option is to carry my music with me, and podcasts give me access to new music and other types of programs to discover.