Neil Young’s online music archive is here: every single song ever recorded by Young is available to stream for free in high-resolution quality

[ferenc]

Neil Young’s online music archive is here, and it’s fucking incredible

Every single song ever recorded by Young is available to stream for free in high-resolution quality

http://www.neilyoungarchives.com

 

It is a trial as free it seems, but interesting anyway. 

[esldude]

Some of these sound really, really good.   Odd quirky interface.  Like Neil I guess. 

 

Glad you made this post. 

 

Looks like much of what is there is 24/192 though not everything.  If your internet connection can't cope with that it drops down a step until it works.  Or you can manually drop to 320 kbps mp3.  

 

I received an email saying it would be free until June 30th.  

[ferenc]

It sounds really good. I like it a lot.

It is not over engineered, modern mastered. Very simple mastering (if any). It sounds as my old 1/2 inch tapes digitized. 

[FredericV]

Bitrate stays below 5 mbit for 24/192 and it's the real deal, not decimated 17/96 upsampled back to 24/192. Even the cheapest ISP subscription in my country can stream  several concurrent streams at this quality.

[#Yoda#]

24/192 PCM is nice, but as Chris Connaker mentioned in his comment in the other thread about this topic, you need a computer with a web browser, tablet or smartphone to enjoy the Neil Young Archives. This are usually no preferable sources for best sound quality and to enjoy the benefits of HiRes music.

 

 

[ferenc]

Actually on my average VDSL web connection, I could listen it in 192k, without any stuttering, drops, no problem at all, just fine music. I use Macbook Pro and Safari to a Heed Abacus DAC, and do not miss any of my high-end players, it just sounds very good this way.

[mansr]

The indicator in the web page says 192/24, but Firefox is very adamant about playing it (presumably by resampling) at 44.1 kHz.