90s dance music and streaming platforms

[teapea]

I think I've made a mistake. I put all my CDs in the attic figuring I'd make a move to streaming.
So far I've been through Tidal/Qoboz/Spotify/Deezer
But none of them carry a while subset of my music, that being late 90s club/dance/chill out.
The entire "Back to mine" series which I collated on CD just doesn't exist.
None of the standard MoS or Hed Kendi albums exist about pre 2017. I can't even re-create the albums as playlists as the tracks don't even exist! (And some were huge back into the day!)
Now, I'm not suggesting this is all good music, but it's good background music for either being in the home gym, BBQs etc and yes, for nostalgia.
So now I'm going to have to dig them all back out, rip them and store them. And then have 2 platforms, 1 for streaming and 1 for local library.
Now sure, I could use Roon to collate the 2 together but then the nice advantage of Deezer is it works via Google Home, and honestly that's so easy and useful for other household members to just ask Google for music and it works it's a shame to lose it, and it's become my default now because of this.
Not sure there is an elegant solution, just wanted to wag a fist to the ether to show my annoyance

 

[sigbergaudio]

I miss the Hed Kandi albums too. There are some user created playlists though (example: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1bWln0Rn9bFhBiv8dAIIv4) - but yes, not all tracks are available.

 

[Waxx]

Most of the electronic music i listened to in the late 90 and early 00's is not on streaming as far as i know. But it's rather extreme electronic music (raggacore, hardtek, early breakcore, digital hardcore, ...). Some of the bigger hits maybe, but most that we listened to at that time is not. Idem for the music i listen now to (old reggae, dub, jazz, african old music, ...).

Streaming services have an awfull lot in store, but there is so much music in the world that is not on it that limiting yourself to streaming is cutting of a big part of the underground music that is arround, underground music of this time and of the past. It's probally just not profitable to host those for the streaming services, and neighter for the artists to put it on streaming as their streams will be low. They earn more with direct sale of vinyl or even digital files trough internet and on partys.

 

[teapea]

This 100%. I figured the "internet" would be archive of everything. But it's not.

 

[Timcognito]

They are in the attic, buy a NAS and stream from it. Exact Audio Copy is free and finds all the metadata on the internet for you.

EAC Ripping Guide

 

[Trdat]

I'm a big fan of classic house and old school hard house(1997-2003) and I have so many tracks without a track name and even when I manage to find the title name its near impossible finding the track to purchase. The best luck I have had is Juno download but only still find about 20% of the tracks I am looking for. Streaming is a bit better in terms of finding the tracks.

 

[JohnnyAudio]

SOMAFM

 

[Soniclife]

I think I've made a mistake. I put all my CDs in the attic figuring I'd make a move to streaming.
So far I've been through Tidal/Qoboz/Spotify/Deezer
But none of them carry a while subset of my music, that being late 90s club/dance/chill out.
The entire "Back to mine" series which I collated on CD just doesn't exist.
None of the standard MoS or Hed Kendi albums exist about pre 2017. I can't even re-create the albums as playlists as the tracks don't even exist! (And some were huge back into the day!)
Now, I'm not suggesting this is all good music, but it's good background music for either being in the home gym, BBQs etc and yes, for nostalgia.
So now I'm going to have to dig them all back out, rip them and store them. And then have 2 platforms, 1 for streaming and 1 for local library.
Now sure, I could use Roon to collate the 2 together but then the nice advantage of Deezer is it works via Google Home, and honestly that's so easy and useful for other household members to just ask Google for music and it works it's a shame to lose it, and it's become my default now because of this.
Not sure there is an elegant solution, just wanted to wag a fist to the ether to show my annoyance

Roon works nicely for this, so would a CD player if you don't need them multi room.

 

[JohnnyAudio]

I think I've made a mistake. I put all my CDs in the attic figuring I'd make a move to streaming.
So far I've been through Tidal/Qoboz/Spotify/Deezer
But none of them carry a while subset of my music, that being late 90s club/dance/chill out.
The entire "Back to mine" series which I collated on CD just doesn't exist.
None of the standard MoS or Hed Kendi albums exist about pre 2017. I can't even re-create the albums as playlists as the tracks don't even exist! (And some were huge back into the day!)
Now, I'm not suggesting this is all good music, but it's good background music for either being in the home gym, BBQs etc and yes, for nostalgia.
So now I'm going to have to dig them all back out, rip them and store them. And then have 2 platforms, 1 for streaming and 1 for local library.
Now sure, I could use Roon to collate the 2 together but then the nice advantage of Deezer is it works via Google Home, and honestly that's so easy and useful for other household members to just ask Google for music and it works it's a shame to lose it, and it's become my default now because of this.
Not sure there is an elegant solution, just wanted to wag a fist to the ether to show my annoyance

Streamers serve their own interests.

 

[Leeken]

App on android and iOS called Mixcloud,absolutely fantastic for dj sets,all for free,from the glory days of 90/91 to now.

 

[klettermann]

Perhaps not exactly the right genre, but much of the Buddha Bar stuff falls firmly into the 'chill out' bucket and is available on Qobuz.

 

[Ropeburn]

Rule number one for any remotely specialised taste:

Never go full streaming.

The services can't possibly offer any niche music comprehensively - that is, what they determine as "niche" according to their user statistics. Besides the obvious downside that you lose all access instantly the moment there's a problem with your account. Rare, but when it happens, you're screwed.

Ripping all your CDs and tagging and archiving them is a big, but one-time effort. After that point, you can stream it in any modern system easily and with never degrading quality (CD rot is a thing, let alone simple wear raising the need for error correction). Backup is simple and cheap too. Big external hdds cost basically nothing these days in the context of this enthusiast hobby. So with basic care, you can't lose it.

What may seem as a "dinosaur method" of managing your library is actually the most futureproof and failsafe. Flac files will still be playable in 50 years, when some or even all current streaming services are already defunct. And cost you comparably nothing.