Neil Young pulls streaming catalog, says quality is worse than AM radio

[Słash]

I was there.
AM radio kicked streaming's ass.
Analog Cassettes and 8 tracks also kicked streaming's ass,
and absolutely rocked compared to streaming.

Streaming sucks. Streaming is the worst audio in history.
If you want it, you got it. It's here to stay.
Your choice.

Copy my songs if you want to. That's free.
Your choice.

All my music, my life's work, is what I am preserving the way I want it to be.

It's already started. My music is being removed from all streaming services. It's not good enough to sell or rent.

Make streaming sound good and I will be back.

Neil Young

http://www.slashgear.com/neil-young-pulls-streaming-catalog-says-quality-is-worse-than-am-radio-15393130/

[dalsh327]

The world is dying to hear Letters From Home and Arc in 24 bit on Pono

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[magisme]

I think a streaming site got on his lawn.

[ZoSoRose]

Love Neil Young, saw him last night.

But insane audiophiles can be annoying. Jimmy Page is the same way. No, an mp3 won't sound as good as an LP, but its pretty good. Especially if you have good headphones

[AxlisOld]

320kbps audio is fine, but it wouldn't surprise me if some streaming sites drop down to like 64 or 96 to keep data usage down.

[DieselDaisy]

Neil Young has super sensitive ears to electric noise and audio. People who recorded with him would say that he would tell you if a wire was out or something really minor that the engineers had not been able to detect.

[Estranged Reality]

certainly this isn't just a curmudgeonly reaction to the lackluster sales of Pono, eh?

[tomfriend]

On Spotify you can choose your bitrate.

But yeah, I hear Neil Young once stopped a performance to yell 'OK, who's making that fuckin' racket when I'm trying to play?" Turns out a gnat had farted 6 blocks away from the venue.

[Gackt]

[dalsh327]

On Spotify you can choose your bitrate.

But yeah, I hear Neil Young once stopped a performance to yell 'OK, who's making that fuckin' racket when I'm trying to play?" Turns out a gnat had farted 6 blocks away from the venue.

There's also signs all over the place when he does his acoustic sets not to make noise in the middle of the song and hold off on applauding until the song is over, those shows are "you can hear a pin drop" theater gigs.

It's a given he wanted to be a presence on Spotify and then pull out of there "to make a point" because of Pono, but he still put his new album on there. Dylan had the Complete Basement Tapes on Spotify then had it taken down 2 days later, but they still have the sampler up. His new album of standards isn't on there but he made a deal with AARP (I think he's done with Rolling Stone) and random subscribers got free copies.

I do like Neil's two books and his interview with Howard Stern. I'm kind of surprised he didn't make a deal with Sirius to do a 24 hour channel but if you want to talk shitty audio quality, Sirius would make an audiophile jump out the window.