You should rip your DVDs and store them on a hard drive connected to a Roku/WDTV...

snarkyturtle · on Sept 6, 2014

That would require more work though. It's like telling someone to rip all your CDs and put it on your phone instead of streaming it from Spotify.

booruguru · on Sept 7, 2014

People don't rip CDs anymore? You can't depend on a streaming service to stream your favorite content forever. Also, you don't actually "own" your DRM-riddled digital downloads from Amazon, iTunes, etc. What's more, CDs and Blu-rays offer high resolution content than any streaming service currently offers.

For the HN crowd, I thought ripping would be a no-brainer.

dragonwriter · on Sept 7, 2014

> Also, you don't actually "own" your DRM-riddled digital downloads from Amazon, iTunes, etc.

iTunes downloads aren't DRM-riddled (which is why my entire iTunes library is now part of my Google Play Music library.)

> For the HN crowd, I thought ripping would be a no-brainer.

Buy individual tracks and archiving them to your own media is a no-brainer, but ripping CDs isn't necessary to that when the major music download services all are (or allow you to export) portable, DRM-free copies.

davidgerard · on Sept 7, 2014

I have over a terabyte of media here ... and I still play songs I actually own a copy of from YouTube, 'cos it's so much more convenient.