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Originally Posted by pwalker8
It's nice having media in the cloud, I use both dropbox and iCloud myself, however I also like having my media available for those times where I'm not connected. For example, I download my audiobooks and specific playlists to my car iTouch so I can listen in the car without worrying about connectivity. Streaming is fine at home, not so good on the road when I'm using my cellular data plan, or am driving in an area where the coverage is a bit spotty.
I downloaded all my music, movies, TV shows, ebooks and audiobooks to my main computer, so I can get at them whenever I want. I have plenty of capacity, so why not be safe rather than sorry. Cloud services are just as likely to go belly up, or be dropped by a company as any other service.
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Well, of course with books and movies, there are copies on the devices I'm using, so they don't require connectivity beyond the initial download. At the same time, I'm almost never "not connected." Google Music does allow downloads and I do have some music on my phone, but I can't tell you when is the last time I had to rely on downloaded music rather than streaming. Streaming music isn't going to make a dent in my data plan, and Google Music does cache several songs ahead, so in the rare event I hit a dead spot, it's not much likely to be an issue. For the most part I don't worry about "having" media, in the sense of an owned collection, so long as I have access to media. And again, libraries provide a lot of that access.