Neil Young is disappointed with goes beyond COVID-19 vaccine misinformation. A day later his music was remove from the platform, he said he “felt better” after leaving and slamming Spotify for its sound quality compared to other streaming services.
“Amazon, Apple Music, and Qobuz deliver up to 100% of the music [quality] these days and it sounds a lot better than Spotify’s attenuated and disabled audio,” Young writes in publish to your website. “If you support Spotify, you’re destroying an art form.” He urged fans to turn to “a platform that really cares about the quality of music.”
Young, who claims “Spotify streams artist music at 5% of its quality”, has long been disgruntled by the sound quality on several streaming platforms. He’s temporary his music from them in 2015. Young debuted that year, but Pono closed in 2017.
In February 2021, Spotify said it plans to in several markets during that year. That didn’t happen. Company the company was “delighted to offer the Spotify HiFi experience to Premium users in the future” but did not give a schedule.
, and all started offering CD-quality music streaming as part of their standard plans last year. and also offers high definition streaming.
Earlier this week, Young Spotify about allowing Joe Rogan to share COVID-19 vaccine misinformation and issue “it’s him or me” ultimatums. Spotify, allegedly paid $100 million for and said it took down more than 20,000 episodes of COVID-related podcasts, barely faltering. The service pulled the musician’s songs, though said it regretted Young’s decision and hoped he would return soon.
Meanwhile, Young writes that he supports freedom of expression and the right of companies to choose to profit from it, “just as I can choose not to have my music support a popular platform.” harmful information variables”. He said he was standing “in solidarity with frontline medical workers who risk their lives every day to help others” and “as an unexpected bonus, I sound better at everywhere else.”
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