I've been buying all my music from iTunes for the last 18 years. All my music is on my NAS and I can stream to multiple devices using PLEX. You can connect to PLEX remotely if you wanted to but I don't have mine setup. When I'm at work or traveling I just load up my phone and bluetooth to headphones or my car.

I have no desire to go back to the CD format. But, interestingly my last CD purchase was only a few weeks ago because it was the Judas Priest British Steel 30th Anniversary that also had a DVD with it.

Maybe it's time to hit up the thrift stores for cheap CDs to rip? I haven't been thrifting in a long time so I have no idea what's out there.

I've already been down that road with MSN Music many moons ago. I have a bunch of WMA files I can't play anymore cuz the service is no longer active. Luckily I burned a lot of that stuff to CD so I could play in the car and then ripped the CD to remove the DRM.

It took me a lil while to figure out DRC didn't stand for "dirty rotten ****"

This thread got me to install Spotify last week. The free version has limited skips (if memory serves 6 per hour) and the ads are few and 30 seconds long (with no ads in succession). I like that I can pick Judas Priest and listen to just them for hours.

For me streaming won't replace digital downloads. I still enjoy listening to live bootlegs and albums from front to back. And with digital downloads I can create my own playlists in Plex where I rarely skip a track and can stream to multiple devices wherever I am in the house (and could do it remotely if I really wanted to). And Plex is available on all my devices where Spotify is not.

Roku. A lot of times I sit in the living room, fire up the TV and Plex and listen to music.

I guess I'm going in the wrong direction...just bought two albums from Bandcamp and two albums from iTunes last night...