As we’ll see, there are many different aspects to these services: their look and feel on the phone and the desktop, how you search, what audio quality they provide, their different ways of helping you choose what to listen to, and a number of special features. The other four, Apple Music, Qobuz, Spotify and Tidal, cover all genres.
Two of them, Idagio and Primephonic, have been created specifically for classical music listeners. To help you find your way through the music streaming maze, I’ve looked at six of the available services. And classical music – particularly opera and large scale choral or symphonic works – has extremes of dynamic range and spectral detail which means that for discriminating listeners, highly compressed audio just doesn’t sound good enough. Classical music doesn’t fit neatly into the “Artist / Album / Track” schema used by most of the download and streaming providers, so seeking a particular artist playing a given work is hard. For classical music and opera lovers, however, there have been two glaring snags: metadata and quality.
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