. Apple went so far as to call itself “the home of Neil Young,” though it seems Young is also rooting for the much smaller Qobuz, which has pushed hi-fi sound since its launch. Young continues to completely ignore Tidal, which is frankly brutal since Tidal led the lossless streaming wave before Amazon and Apple joined in.that it first announced a year ago has left the door open for Young to continue denouncing the service’s audio quality.
In his note, Young directly mentions Spotify CEO Daniel Ek, explaining that he met Ek back in the service’s early days. “It sounded to me like he was really going to be getting into it. I wonder what happened.” Young closes by saying he’s happy and proud about the decision he’s made, which he says is meant to show solidarity with health care workers and others working to save lives during the COVID-19 pandemic. “As an unexpected bonus, I sound better everywhere else.
Considering the new financial advisor for the company who bought 50% of your songs is an ex CEO of Pfizer ofc they were going to make up pull from Spotify. Either way he’s just not relevant so who even cares he’s gone?
People still listen to Neil Young? Anyway, I highly doubt Spotify would trade his thousands of listeners for Joe Rogan's 11+ million listeners
Thank you for your honesty ❤️👍🦋🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶✅
Well, I'm not giving Apple my money.... Soooooo
WHO the f**k is Neil Young
ByeFalecia
Lol
sure that Spotify is well known world over eh but who the fuc is Neil Young?
Perhaps he didn’t notice the sound quality problem is him
Neil Youngs music catalog is owned by Hipgnosis ( Hedgefund ),who is partners with Blackstone group who invests billions in individual business deals Blackstone announced that they appointed Pfizer’s former Chairman and CEO Jeffrey B Kindler as the company’s Senior Advisor
Neil had been a no factor for a long time…… who cares!
Yeah, it’s Spotify. That makes me feel better also.
Neil Young sound quality is horrible with or without Spotify.
Oh buddy....it's not Spotify that has shitty sound quality. You were never a good singer.
Good, now people can listen you on discmans or walkies :)
old man yells at clouds worries about who is touching his potatoes
The sound quality didnt bother him before though.
I feel better after he left too...
The only thing with shitty sound quality is Neil Youngs God awful nasal falsetto. It sounds like he is trying to put a spell on you and then then bake you in his oven.
Spotify shitty sound quality could make Neilyoung music sound any worse.
i curse youre entire family
you look like courtney love
probably only remembers the bad shit that happens to him by the fans he already considers stupid
so, you aint grunge punk
Them hearing aids were turned off 🤣
me too.
Neil Young can eat it
Every great artist has a stupid side. Nobody is perfect.
I’m fine with Spotify. Unless Ek buys Arsenal. Then I’m off. 😂
Spotify really does need better sound quality
That's his voice! I use his albums to scare ferel cats from my property!
It's not spotify's sound quality that's shitty. It's Neil's music that's shitty.
Does anyone else see a slander suit Neil Young’s future play nice in the sandbox Dude
Nobody cares
I use Spotify in the shower and in the car, sounds quality is fine (normal - recommended). Not a huge difference and I wouldn't be able to tell the difference. I doubt most users would.
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neil young felt better after he did what his owners and handlers told him to do.
Why can't he be sued for slandering the man and impacting his business. They all should be open to legal liability.
Neil Young
God bye Old Man😁
He must have only been listening to his own music
Shitty sound quality 🤣 only when his music is played old Salty grandad
Idk YouTube music high quality sounds good to me Far better than Spotify
He’s regretting it😂
This is political manipulation. Ironic that Neil would do this considering what he represents to an older generation.
Audio quality is only as good as what you use to listen on. If you have a decent set of headphones or speakers you will notice a difference a service like Tidal has compared to lower quality sound on Spotify.
Good, weirdo
I felt the same way Tidal really does sound better. Wish o had tried them out earlier.
I'm trying to understand your point of view: 1) who benefits from this 2) have anyone who hates Joe Rogan listen to his podcast? 3) do you as adults have to be told what to believe or not? 4) How much of this is ego or narcissism? 4) What is wrong with science having skeptics?
Neilyoung Let us all cheer for censorship! You have gone too far off the deep end.
My hero. Standing up for what’s right. It’s not possible or easy for other content providers like Mr. Young to remove themselves, but try s point is SPOTIFY IS WRONG TO HAVE DISINFORMATION THAT CAUSES DEATHS
Sometimes you have to take the high road. I think there may have been several lessons of life learned.
...his songs are still showing for me 🤷♀️
$50 bucks says he couldn't tell a difference in a blind test.
I don’t think it’s Spotify’s sound quality, I just think it’s your terrible music, neilyoung
Le-gend!!
Who?
Contrast this with Joe Rogan's good natured response on Instagram.
Imagine what this guy said about his ex-girlfriends 🤣🤣🤣
The only shi**y sound quality Neil is your music
So true lmaooooo
Yea he looks like he feels better 😂😂😂😂
Spotify users felt better after Neil Young left with his shitty music
this is the most Neil Young thing ever
Well, Spotify does use one of the worst audio compressions out there. Its a free service (with ads), thats why people use it so much.
OK boomer.
Sounds like sour grapes
Must have been listening to a lot of Neil young
He's not wrong. Politics aside the sound quality is abysmal.
I do not care, I’ve used Spotify for 5-6 years maybe, always been an amazing place to listen to music
Niel who? Never heard of him. Is he famous? and I'm not being sarcastic.
He did not leave. They DRopped his shitty music
Sounded a whole lot better without his lazy sloppy over-rated dirges, I'm sure of that.
Also, who is he? Genuinely?
Definitely not shitty if one of the best in class
Good riddance along with that depressing Joni Mitchell. What a wonderful day is today 😊
Spotify is ready to use unfortunately it's true about sounds quality. It sucks. And Apple sucks too. YT Music sound quality kills Apple, but the app sucks. I use YT Music because of best sound. Learn to use the shitty app, it's worth it
But he's alright with being on Apple music when they use Chinese slaves to manufacture iPhones?
Keep on rocking in the semi free world!
mensamusic 👀
you don't need good sound quality to listen to niel young music.
Neil young (and the rest of yall) is gonna look so bad if everything said at these podcasts are true.
Who?
I couldn't imagine that this issue will stretch so far.
Neil Young feels better bc he sold half his music catalog for 150 mil last yr, so none of this really matters to him. He’s a fraud.
I thought RIP van Winkle left because of political differences?
Freedom of Speech is more important than Neil Young
quantulates
fakenews neilyoung joeroganrules joeroganexperience
That’s just your ears old man lol
Neil Young became a tyran, hating free speech. Once a 'hippie', now an old grumpy anti free speech man.
Agreed. I too am glad he left Spotify and his shitty sound quality.
Maybe the sound at Spotify improved after he left? 🤔
Neil Young sold the rights to his songs to Hipgnosis, how can he control where his music is distributed? Wait…Blackstone has a deal w/Hipgnosis? Wait… wait… Blackstone hired an ex Pfizer CEO Jeffrey B. Kindler as Senior Advisor & still owns his Pfizer shares?!? HighEthics
Only listen to and say what Neil wants. Authoritarian
An accusation thrown only after the ties have been severed is the most cowardly of all.
If Trump said Neil Young was his favourite musician, they would flock to him without a doubt. Its a cult.
So long Neil… good riddance!
What's sound quality gonna do for shit music?
Bey bey maybe you should sing better.
Never heard of this guy before the Rogan saga. Who cares if he leaves or not, boomer. Nobody listens to you anyway
Hahaha he does have a point there.
Go listen to what joerogan said today. Otherwise sthu and stop this pandering and propaganda bs!
Neil who? I only know Neil Armstrong.
ok boomer
Never brought any Neil Young music before but I'm gonna have to just from statement alone 😂✊🏿
lol.. he sounds butt hurt
Haha! He’s totally right! Which is why he’s winning this, completely and swiftly. it almost feels like hope!!!
The truth is that Spotify have the worst sound quality. Deezer have Hi-Fi Quality and it’s better. And AppleMusic have higher Hi-Fi and it sounds just amazing. The music in Spotify is super compressed.
Yeah yeah, but half of the people who is complaining about it can’t afford a high quality headphones to notice it so… just hating and hating
Fuck Neil
His shitty music matched it perfectly.
If anythings shitty, its his music. Good riddance
I knew it wasn’t about freedom.
Glad I never even thought about down loading Spotify, but the INTERNET is still in my professional experience is it's the most lousy way to communicate.
Lol. Take a hearing test Neil. At your age, all the streaming platforms sound “shitty”. Still laughing.
It kinda bc tidal on Bluetooth is really nice
Never listen to him. Cope
I also feel better that Neil Young left Spotify with his “shitty thinking”
He must have been just listening to his own shitty music
Is Spotify bad? I don't understand exactly what the issue is.
Never heard of Neil Young.
Spotify has always felt like a morally bankrupt company when it comes to ethical standards for artist. And yes, Spotify does have some bad quality if you’re really trying to listen to the music. I agree with that.
Apple Music welcomes Neil Young with open arms, and this is how Apple does treat not only music artists, but their own customers better! ❤️
Sorry Neil, I tried Tidal for sound quality and found no real difference. Not going to start spending thousands upon thousands in equipment to hear a tiny little bit more either. I am pro-vaccine though, be sure of that.
He is in the great divide. He will be attacked by the right, especially Skynyrd fans. 'A southern man don't need him around anyhow.'
Didn't know he was still alive. Nobody cares about sound quality.
I don't listen to him anymore. Use to like his music but it got old, like him.
Totally fake news people. His music is STILL ON SPOTIFY. So stupid.
Not all heroes wear capes
Didn’t pipe up pre-pandemic
I canceled my family’s Premium Spotify last week & switched to Apple One Premiere which bundled my existing services & added Apple Music (plus Fitness + Games) for only $5 more per month = $11 monthly savings. Plus I feel so much better morally DeletedSpotify DeleteSpotify
Cry more
I agree about the sound quality
I am keeping my Spotify account because it is SO easy to use, and, I don't use it for anything but music. I get my medical advice from actual medical doctors, not Bro Rogan. But I TOTALLY respect Neil, and he is right about the sound quality. We lost that when we went digital.
Neil who ?
Neil Young... LGBTQI where you at?
I’ve actually cancelled my Spotify account but I have to say none of the other streaming services are as good. Yes the sound quality (in theory) is better but Apple’s high res lossless sound is almost impossible to get as no DAC streamer supports it.
the sound quality is fine its just this guys old ass ears that cant hear shit
Hey Neil.....
If only he had developed a high fidelity streaming service. He could call it like Pono or something like that
Content moderation aside, Spotify is definitely losing the sound quality race. Ironic, as I got Premium a decade ago for the 320k tier, which was substantially better than anything else available, but it’s been vastly outpaced since then!
I love this man.
This guy?
'Those grapes are sour anyway.'
He probably just needs new hearing aids
Nobody will miss him anyways
Lmao what a sellout
Umm second time you post the same garbage?
Makes sense. I mean he was the first artist to offer lossless as a subscription service. Neilyoung
huh, I thought it sounded ok.
He probably was paid by Apple to leave.
I don't find either party in this story very likeable.
Yeah right… Spotify is doing great without him.
🤣
Does Spotify sound as bad as Neil says it is?
All I know, it's that we are going backwards. We are trying to surpass racial segregation, and now Vaccine segregation. This is the stupidest course we have taken in humanity.
Shit sounds muted
so what? why don’t we have universal healthcare?
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
SOS
Better sound quality can’t improve shitty music
Didn’t listen to Spotify before. Don’t listen to it now. Don’t care what Rogan thinks. I think what I think. See how that works?
So he couldn’t give a shit what sound quality his fans got pre Covid?
SOS
Happy for him. I still have no idea who he is lol.
Copium
Swine...
That wasn’t Spotify. That was his so called “music”
hmm, I am still enjoying his heart of gold here in Germany ...
Sure people are now even forget what hi-fi sounds like.
LMAO at anyone thinking a streaming service could make Neil Young sound better.
He didnt hate Spotify's money however little that amount was he made 😄
Lmao, the shitty sound was his whiny voice. If media didn't make a big deal about this no one would have noticed his music was gone.
Neil Young is not my favourite musician, but he's got a point here. I'm considering switching to a different stream provider, too. What's a good one, in Ireland? Preferably: - With family plan. - With HQ audio. - With a big catalogue. - Usable in Linux, Android and Google Nest.
His music is shitty sound quality lol
Sound quality is hard to get from Neil young songs. He can't sing or play guitar at all
🤣
viberate
Who?
There’s always Canada if you don’t like the freedom of speech here , washed up musicians smh
The average Spotify user (50% under the age of 35) prolly dont know or care about Neil Young...Old timer is butt hurt and has to say such statements to try and heal his bruised ego
lol
Haaaaa
Spotify's compression is shitty, that's a fact. But so is the compression of other streaming services...
It wasn’t the sound quality that was shitty…
The only thing those generations, do is complain and shoot up schools. And repackage our inventions and ideas. Their music is mainly remix’s of our songs and raps. You haters should read more. Instead of burning books. Most people in those generations are Intellectually Limited.
Where can I listen to 'The Monsanto Years' now?
Goodbye to YOUR tinny music . . . . Neil!
Remind me again, who is Neil Young?
Southern man don’t need him around anyhow…Sweet Home Alabama 🎶
shitty music makes shitty sound
He sounds bitter
I'm with you all the way Neil ,why do we need a shit program to choose music for us ? My music collection consists of thousands of albums collected over 50 years, I don't need this rubbish or Apple music.
He's right though. I just switched from Spotify to apple (on android) and the sound quality is far better.
I can't believe people pay $10 a month to listen to mp3s Spotify and complain they can't hear a difference in sound quality over their airpods pro, when early 2021 Spotify promoted hifi with billieeilish and told how important it was, you tell me about misinforming
Think he’s a bit salty cause he lost 😂😂
320 kbps is not 'shitty'... its average, hes just a bitter old man
Neil Young sounds like a jilted teenage girl.
He’s right
Something I’ll never understand, if a service was shitty why were you using it in the first place? Nobody is forcing you, there is a door and you can leave whenever you’d like.
Hes not lying neils albums are known for be well recorded and for be a champion of sound quality. One of his hits, keep on rocking in the free world. Is on my playlist.
Regardless of sound quality, I will still listen to Neil Young wherever he puts his music in
“Leaving” now I’m no expert but he was removed from the platform if my reading of the previous headlines is correct. He tried to call them out and lost.
Joe rogan, all the problem
Does anyone under 60 years old listin to Neil Young 🤔
Yep,put another LP on.
Bye Bye
Sad to see old people acting this way. People used to age with dignity, now they go out crying and panicked over a little cold, holding everyone hostage along the way.
We all feel better. The shi77y sound was his shi77y sounding voice and lame band where everything sounds the same...and shi77y. Go back to Canada where they don't have free speech and stop trying to ruin our country. Like ef n Californians flooding Texas.
twelve-tone equal temperament is theoretically out of tune. it's like trying to shine a piece of shit
Dudes hearing just ain’t what it used to be
I’ve been using Spotify for years and the sound quality is top tier
World's first self-cancellation 🥁🥁🥁😂🤣🤡
You go to a supermarket and you see a faggot behind the fuckin’ cash register, you don’t want him to handle your potatoes.” – Neil Young in Melody Maker, September 1985 This is their hero?
🤣 this guy
Having a hissy fit over a company not caving in to censor ship. How pussified is that? I didn’t like you then and don’t like you more now.
He keeps going on and on about sound quality, but I’m almost willing to bet he’s legally deaf by now. Let’s also never forget the yellow abomination he called a high fi portable music player ten years back.
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Might be his shitty music.
Oh so he is blaming the shitty sound of his voice on something other then his own voice? Sounds about right🥴
Who’s Joe Rogan? Was he that guy in the wire.
Keep Rocking in the Free world bro.
Neil who?
None of the streaming services have the top quality, you get the right kind of quality in Music when you download and copy Digitial FLAC or High Bitrate MP3 files on to an Offline player and listen to it.
I mean we’re two years into a ‘pandemic’, we were told get a shot and it will be over and now it just keeps on extending. People are over it. There are scare tactics on one side and misinformation on the other. So much bickering and trying to control others.
I wouldn't invite the comparison.
If he's worried about sound quality, then shrine should tell him about how fucking terrible he is live.
No one on Spotify gives a fuck. Don't try and silence opinions you don't like and move on with your life.
That’s why it’s great right lol so salty
I hope he remembers we don’t need him around anyhow
I thought it was Neil who was shitty.
Such a strong person. In reality he is shitty and bitter about everything. byebyeneil
KING
Rockin in a free world 🤣🤣
Maybe he should do another freedom of speech your.
I literally use Spotify because of its sound quality, I can adjust the eq settings unlike apps like Apple Music, I love Apple Music but the overall sound wasn’t great and does not do my AirPods Pro any Justice, especially in songs with a lot of bass
He co-opted the civil right and anti war movements and played them. Now that he is in decay he wishes to use his new found power crush the people who were once his audience. The wall is the only place left for people like him.
Irrelevant has-been looking for attention.
Dude’s rationalizing already? He’s only losong a couple hundred bucks anyway.
'while noting that he’s strongly opposed to censorship and that “private companies have the right to choose what they profit from, just as I can choose not to have my music support a platform that disseminates harmful information.”
Fun Factoid: Neil Young still has an official Neil Young channel on You Tube,&so does Joe Rogan. YT carries Rogan&Neil,both. Okay, so Rogan posts video clips rather than complete shows. Still, if Neil doesn't want Joe as a 'strange bedfellow' on yt,he shd quit yt too, sh'dn't he?
Who is this old boomer and why is he mad at technology 😂
He's not deaf ?
I understand, that's why I only listen to podcasts spotify and not music. Has anybody tried listening to Joe Rogan his podcast is very informative?
Old man didn’t knew that Spotify has Advanced settings and that you can go “Very high” 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
many of us felt better also winer.
Lol, blames hearing loss on his personal L
Both sides are happy about this, it’s a 2022 miracle
He didn’t mention Van Morrison or Eric Clapton were still on Spotify.
K pookie
Sour old man. I guarantee you he’s never listen to a complete JRE podcast in his life
Yeah I don’t think it was Spotify fault for shitty sound
old man take a look at your life, you're a lot like goober
Finally someone told this!
When you do a walk of shame Niel, it typically means shutting your mouth too. So go on, carry on with your life quietly
🤣🤣🤣 Get better hearing aids Neil
Neil listens to his stuff on Spotify and finally realizes it sounds shitty... but then try's to blame Spotify .
Sorry, Neil. That objectionable sound that you hear has always been what you sounded like long before there ever was a Spotify.
Neil young is Not
Neil Young looks like a 90 year old woman. There, I said it.
bitter old prejudice relic wants anyone who thinks different in this case speaks the truth, to be silenced.
💩
Who?
Sorry, dude, you're not going to make it onto my Apple Music playlist.
Lol
Ok.
Just Pono it baby.
😂😂😂💙true fucking blue.
He’s not wrong.
Neil Young bitching about sound quality...
Obviously he’s never heard himself sing.
Sound quality was better than the Original Vinyls, Old Man young. Singing about racist Southern Dems, got some play long, long ago.
Spotify has been a dodgy cheating shit since its inception. We all know so well what Spotify did to Kim Dotcom’s MEGA MUSIC.
Wah wah wah that's all I am hearing. Who cares if Joe Rogan is protesting the vaccine? It's pointless anyways to get the thing lol
I remember the time when Neil visited the verge cast. Such a joy to listen to.
so he removed all his music from all streaming services in 2015 cuz 'all streaming services have poor quality'? then sold pono with its 'hidef' quality' and got feedback that all streaming music sounds identical so he returned to streaming on spotify?
Well I hope Neil Young will remember A free man don't need him round--anyhow.
I noticed a marked improvement in sound quality when I switched to YouTube Music. I had Spotify set to highest quality for downloaded songs, and my entire library was downloaded, but YT Music sounds much better already, and I don't even know if there's a quality option.
Keep on rocking in a... oh wait nvm... 😂🤣😆
No one gives a shit
No amount of sound quality could make Neil Young. Reminiscent of a dying cow. Don't blame spotify.
Maybe he can revive Pono? 🤔
Time to subscribe Spotify for another year
I mean
Been streaming Neil’s Essentials album non-stop for the last 24 hrs on Apple music. Let’s make this man some deserved $$$. Who’s with me?
you can file this under: not tech news
And which platform offers more than 320kbps?
Choose Pono!
Yeah he learned the hard way, he measured his dick against Rogans and came up 4 inch short.
Who fking cares? Freedom with responsibility. That should be the rule. I use it not to subscribe to any of those services but feel free to do what fits you.
That sound quality had more to do with his music than Spotify. They did not have autotune in his day.
Apple moosic better
when u can't won, say stupid excuses
✌️
Most press coverage that Neil has gotten in a very LONG time .. keep on rocking Neil!
TIDAL have any thoughts considering you guys are one of the main audio streaming platforms with loseless audio
Why is he still there though?
Coming from the guy who’s records have about zero fidelity. Give me a break.
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