Streaming Music and being able to keep them as your personel files

@dweller 

Sure, that's not fundamentally different from using the tape loop with a tape recorder back in the old days to record from a turntable or a tuner.  

You're not going to end up with a bit-perfect copy of the original though, and it's not going to have any of the metadata that makes it easy to manage in a portable player.  

It's also a bit more dubious from an ethical stance - making mix tapes and copies for personal use of music you already own or that's being broadcast freely over the airwaves is one thing, doing it to make permanent copies of music from a streaming service where the royalties to the artists are paid per stream/play is another.  

Agreed it would most likely constitute an infringement of copyright... In other words piracy.....not that it has ever stopped some folk.

Wow...

      dgarreson,you answered some questions in that single response about Tidal streaming and hi rez files! I was going to start a whole new disscusion of the "How To" transfer streaming music into a lossless digital hi res portable media players,( e.g.Fiio x5,Cayin N3).Because these players do in fact have built in DACs.So I may have just cut out a few "Third Parties" in reaching my final quest.. 

@zyac39 Well, I guess I raised more questions than I answered.  Several hours after copying that file into my NAS for replay through the Roon core, the file and its folder mysteriously evaporated!  However, it still resides on the PC to which I originally transferred it from the digital recorder.  So for the moment it looks like Tidal and MQA have thought this through.  I surmise that it may be possible to keep such copies alive on a device that doesn't ping the net-- but there are precious few of those. 

Hmmmm,

            You may just be redtricted in just how many devises you will be able to "Sail through Safely"..
Meaning,locking in your info,and than moving onto the next step,without being rerouted to your first place of origin,which is your pc...