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Neil Young Is Pulling His Catalog from Streaming Services Due to Sound Quality

neil-young-le-noiseNeil Young announced this week that he is pulling his entire catalog from streaming services such as Spotify and Apple Music.

But while much of the controversy around streaming music has been with regards to how much – or rather, how little – artists get paid, Young says that for him, it’s not because of the money.

While Young does have issues with how artists are compensated by streaming services, a post on his official Facebook page says it’s about sound quality.

“I don’t need my music to be devalued by the worst quality in the history of broadcasting or any other form of distribution,” Young explained on Facebook.  “I don’t feel right allowing this to be sold to my fans. It’s bad for my music.”

Young later continued with a second message, saying that he doesn’t care if fans “copy” his songs for free, as long as it’s with the sound quality that he intended.

This has long been an issue for the Canadian rocker; his digital music device and download service, PONO was released in 2014. Pono offers high-resolution 24-bit 192kHz audio instead of the compressed audio that MP3s and streaming services offer.

Earlier this month, Prince pulled his catalog from all streaming services except TIDAL, which offers a higher percentage to the artist than either Apple Music or Spotify.

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