NZtechfreak:

networkn:

1080p:

jarledb:

timbosan: I was thinking about the same idea for my collection, however streaming services offer crappy audio quality, and there are no HD streaming services in NZ.

networkn - when you RIP is it to uncompressed (FLAC, etc.) or MP3 (if so how compressed)?

Spotify high quality streaming has Ogg Vorbis 320 Kbit/s stream. I doubt you will be able to distinguish between that and CD-quality in a blind test.

Precisely. It does not matter how nice your kit is if your ears can't distinguish streaming audio from CD audio (which 99.99% of people cannot do).

Yes I would admit this to be true, I wasn't aware of the 320K streaming when I made my original assertions. I'll have a look. It's still not my preferred method of solving this problem.

I still like to buy and "own" my music. 

From your statement about your needs and wants where your music is concerned, I think the only way you will get the control and ubiquity you want is to curate your own collection and make it available via your NAS (and local storage where supported, since the NAS makes that simple too). 

Spotify is a good service, and if it has all the music you want then probably a good option. For myself there was a not insignificant portion of my collection unavailable through Spotify, so Spotify couldn't be a one-stop shop for me, there would have inevitably been some fragmentation. Since that is essentially the core of your problem to begin with it may not be for you either, even if you're happy with 320K.