music streaming

[sterling shoote]

I have no experience with music streaming services. As I understand it Tidal is a service which streams the highest quality files. This made me think, wouldn't folks be inclined therefore to just record this music and build their librarys without having to pay for downloading, just by recording computer digital output to a digital recorder with appropriate digital input jacks? Seems the artists would have a problem with that. How does this all work out legally?

 

[KenM10759]

Because you don't have to? The music is always there, what you are paying for is the new releases, thousands of them. You are saving a trip to the record store and countless dollars (or £, or €) buying something you may listen to a couple of times or once.

You are also paying for the luxury of listening to so much content that you might never hear on the radio or find in the record store. Yesterday I stopped in at a local place and bought 4 used CD's, that hasn't changed. Some were old favorites I always wanted to have, others were cuts I'd recently heard on Tidal Hi-Fi and I wanted to own them.

You can actually download many of the Tidal selections too. I thought about doing what you're saying, but discovered there really isn't any reason to go through the effort.

 

[Latent]

Even if there is nothing stopping you technically recording the content the time and effort required to do so to get a usable media library with track info and meta data would make it impractical for most people. The terms of service also state no copying and if you breach this then you are liable for copyright infringement so its no different that using any other (probably easier) illegal methods to get the content. For these reasons Tidal is probably not overly worried about this loophole.

 

[KenM10759]

Tidal does allow downloading some files for off-line use on registered mobile phones and tablets. I haven't yet had a need for it, but may soon download some for an upcoming weekend away on my motorcycle.

 

[Hi Ho]

Yes it is possible to record the music in real time and that is not legal but the reality is that the vast majority of people do not have the technical know how or the inclination. I love streaming services. I was a Spotify member for years and now use Apple Music. I have discovered tons of artists that I never would have discovered otherwise and I have bought quite a few albums just to support them even though I have access through Apple Music.