Neil Young’s frustrations with Spotify go far beyond COVID-19 vaccine misinformation. A day after his music was removed from the platform, he said he” felt better”after leaving and slammed Spotify for its sound quality compared with other streaming services.
“Amazon, Apple Music and Qobuz deliver up to 100 percent of the music ( quality) moment and it sounds a lot better than the shitty degraded and fixed sound of Spotify,” Young wrote in the rearmost letter published to hiswebsite.However, you’re destroying an art form,”If you support Spotify.”He prompted suckers to switch to”a platform that truly cares about music quality. Young, who claims”Spotify streams the artist’s music at five percent of its quality,”has long been vexed by the audio quality on some streaming platforms. He temporarily removed his music from them in 2015. Youthful launched his own audio player and music download platform that time, but Pono shut down in 2017.
In February 2021, Spotify said it planned to roll out a CD- quality music streaming option in some requests that time. That did not be. The company said before this month it was” agitated to deliver a Spotify HiFi experience to Premium druggies in the future,”but did not offer a timeline apple Music, Amazon Music and Tidal all started offering CD- quality music streaming as part of their standard plans last time. Deezer and Qobuz also offer hi-res streaming.
Before this week, Young indicted Spotify of allowing Joe Rogan to partake COVID-19 vaccine misinformation and gave the platform an”it’s him or me” claim. Spotify, which reportedly paid north of$ 100 million to secure the exclusive rights to Rogan’s podcast and said it has taken down further than COVID- related podcast occurrences, slightly squinched. The service pulled the musician’s songs, however said it rued Young’s decision and hoped he would return soon Meanwhile, Young wrote that he supported free speech and companies’ right to choose what to benefit from,” just as I can choose not to have my music support a platform that disseminates dangerous information.” He said he was standing”in solidarity with the frontline healthcare workers who risk their lives every day to help others”and”as an unanticipated perk, I sound better everyplace differently.”