....and all this time I thought computers were supposed to make things like this easier.
![Duh! :duh](https://www.audionervosa.com/Smileys/default/duh.gif)
I mean.... it's just a bunch of files that need accessed and executed, right?
The Squeezebox killed it for me. It's what caused me to dump my MASSIVE library and start streaming.
Yea, I've still got the HDD, but honestly, I've been beaten down. I now get that "needle in the arm" for my music from Pandora, Spotify, Youtube, and a few other smaller streaming sites. When the audiophile bug bites me, I'll fire up the HDD and use MediaMonkey to play the FLAC.
But honestly, we're a dying breed and there doesn't seem to be a reliable piece of hard/software to play music. Seems like such a simple task, ya know?
It's just playing music after all, but it seem technology hasn't caught up to such advanced computational complexities as playing music.
Over the years, I've lowered my standards in order to achieve what I need without hassle. The solution shouldn't require anything that requires a four figure solution. That's completely unacceptable. I mean... We're just decoding "ones and zeros" through a machine that's designed to decode ones and zeros. Right?
Why do we have to spend a bunch of money to decode that?