Uploading a mind to a computer and the art of music

A friend of mine, interested in the ultimate listening experience of music, once thought about what it would mean if you could upload your mind to a computer. So we had a discussion about that. The first though was that you could get rid of a number of analog transformations that added noise to the signal. That is, the music could be fed directly to the (simulated) ear nerves. And so you would get a totally loss-free music experience.

But why stop it at that? When you enjoy a piece of music, there is some kind of mechanism in the brain that do the analysis of the music, which in turns generates the pleasing feeling. Why not directly stimulate this pleasure mechanism? That means you don't need real music any more. Another problem with an uploaded mind could be that it may have almost perfect memory. I believe that surprise is one important part of music. Again, this shouldn't really be a problem if you can simply stimulate the surprise handling mechanisms, and no real surprises are needed.

But then you may as well take it to the next step. Why not directly stimulate the pleasure generating part of the brain, and get exactly the same satisfaction as when you listen to good music?

It can be questioned whether it is the actual experience of pleasure that is the important thing, or the memory of this experience. Why not skip the whole thing about stimulating pleasure, and instead plant a modified memory of having had the pleasure?

Somehow, this doesn't look attractive to me. But then, the technology of uploading probably isn't going to be available for quite a while yet.