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In Reply to: RE: Which classical music streaming service ? posted by Tadlo on January 16, 2017 at 13:22:32
Check to see if your local library offers Hoopla Digital. It's free with a library card. I don't know the resolution, but I find the sound quality to be very good, beyond my expectations. The catalog is fairly wide, but the metadata is horrible. Not a problem if you know what you're looking for and can find the names of movements, etc. elsewhere, i.e. Google. I use it mainly to access a greater repertoire than I have on hand. It's at least worth looking into.
-Bob
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My County library website offers "Freegal" music service which provides free, high-bitrate MP3 downloads from Sony's enormous catalog (only 5 "songs" a week so it takes a while to download a full album- haha) but I keep a little list and chip away at it. You have to have a library card and PIN, but Bearette has a library card too...
They also allow unlimited streaming of any title from Sony via a pop-up player. The sound quality is pretty good, not suitable to be played at concert levels maybe. But, hey, it's free and I'm a Bear on a budget.
...included with a membership to IMSLP.org. It's 128 kbps, but you get access to the entire Naxos label and many other labels that they distribute. DG and BMG/Sony are accessible as well. If you hear something you like, go and buy the CD.
Edits: 01/18/17
Just went to there site. Naxos Music Library is $315/year. Have no idea where you get $22/year. If you want premium service ( 320kbps) and pay by the year it is $26.25 per month. If you pay monthly it is $31 per month. More music than Tidal but worse sound
Alan
Go to IMSLP.ORG. Click on Other, then choose Purchase Membership. You will see that the membership of $22 per year includes access to the Naxos Music Library.
Didn't I already explain this in an earlier post? I'm at work, where I can't look back at earlier posts.
Sorry, never heard of IMSLP
Probably will not give premium streaming
Will check it out
Alan
No, they don't offer premium streaming. 128 kB per second is fine, in my opinion, for auditioning the quality of a classical music performance or listening to historical recordings, but I would definitely buy either the CD or the downloaded CD-quality files if there were a performance that I wanted to keep.
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