ECM Records streaming?

[Musicophile]

To my knowledge, ECM is very restrictive with streaming rights. On Qobuz for example, they have most albums available but limit streaming to 30 sec extracts.

[Musicophile]

This may not be the answer the op wants; but purchasing the albums on Qobuz does give you full lossless streaming rights for those albums.

 

I find this useful because they are then available to stream wherever I may be.

 

Geoff

 

Confirmed.

[Musicophile]

Streaming is being great to us consumers but bad for most artists due the extremely low income they get from streaming...Many artists have been looking for alternative ways of distributing their music, some going direct ways, some just focusing on live performances.

 

I would love to have ECM streamed to me as is maybe the most important record label for the jazz I ear; but for those kind of artist that are already a niche inside jazz, streaming would pay maybe a lunch from time to time. Makes no sense...

I only partially agree. It is pretty obvious no Jazz artist will ever live on streaming revenues.

 

However, I believe that the Jazz audience is actually one of the few customer groups who is actually still buying albums. I often use streaming like I used to use a record shop: to sample an album.

 

The beauty of streaming is you really only have to buy an album if you really like it. For me, if there's an album I like, I usually buy it.

 

These days, if an album is not available for streaming, I'm actually less likely to buy it as 30 second samples really don't mean anything for 5min+ jazz tracks, and unless I love the artist, I hate buying blindly (and there simply aren't any record stores out there any more).

 

I have no idea how many people are out there like me crazy enough to pay for both streaming and downloads. But I hope Manfred Eicher has done this assessment properly before making his decision.

[Musicophile]

What there used to be was places to go and see what new released cds were available and then listen to those releases that just came out. One bookstore chain in particular (Borders) had a great revolving selection of cds so that you could put headphones on and listen to cd after cd. Nearly every time I stopped and looked what was new I ended up buying at least one if not multiple cds, including ones from ECM. That wonderful experience is now gone. This was probably 4-5 years ago. So. Here we are in 2017, 5 years later, and where do I go to listen to recordings to see which I'd like to buy?

Name one of the major streaming services.....there you have it. No listen, no buy. Get the picture ECM or risk losing your artists to more forward thinking recording companies. The times are changing and they had better change or they will find themselves an even smaller niche player than they already are.

 

Sad but true.