Another Clarence Shepard Day Jr. , another artist who ’ll soon be escape from your stream playlists .
On Wednesday morning , Neil Youngposted a subject matter on his prescribed Facebook pageannouncing that he ’s pulling his medicine from streaming service of process .
“ cyclosis has terminate for me . I hope this is fine for my lover , ” the artist wrote . By the prison term of writing , however , Neil Young ’s music was still useable to stream on Apple Music and Spotify .
While the music industry has vocally criticize rain cats and dogs services for paying low trope back to copyright - holder , Young claim , “ It ’s not because of the money . ”
Young has a dissimilar problem with cyclosis services like Spotify and Apple Music : that they compress audio data file to such downcast timbre in rules of order to swarm in effect .
“ It ’s about sound lineament , ” Young continued . “ I do n’t need my music to be undervalue by the worst quality in the chronicle of broadcasting or any other form of distribution . I do n’t feel right allow this to be sell to my fans . It ’s bad for my music . For me , It ’s about making and distributing music people can really hear and sense . I stand for that . ”
The story behind the story : Neil Young , of course , is not the only artist to have taken a stand against pop streaming services . antecedently , Princeremoved all his musicfrom Spotify , Rdio , and Deezer after we comment thathis catalog was missing from Apple Music . Apple Music did manage to convey other swarm critics onboard , however , notably Taylor Swift and Radiohead frontman Thom Yorke .
Neil has been ill-tempered about digital medicine for year , ranting against the MP3 , and finally developing his ownhigh - declaration Pono musician , terminated with a euphony store where you’re able to buy high - bitrate copy of all of his music … again . For a premium , of course . Most hoi polloi probably ca n’t hear the remainder , but it ’s a nice option for audiophiles .
But for Young fan , there may be a glimmer of hope if streaming services improve their audio quality . “ When the quality is back , I ’ll give it another look . Never say never , ” Young wrote . Perhaps Jay - Z should jump in and help his Tidal HiFi service score this sole .
