New streaming/itunes store like think test launched today - streams flacs!

[nat8808]

Kim Dotcom soft launched his new music site today, www.baboom.com

Is a site for artists to directly distribute their music and get 90% revenues of advertising during their plays and where it can be bought too.

Most interestingly you can stream flacs!

Is only a test launch so only plays Kim Dotcoms own Euro Dance music (made for the launch).

Something to keep your eyes on perhaps, depends who gets on there - bet will be new music and independent labels only as I doubt major US influenced labels will touch it for now, being Kim Dotcom etc

(that should be a "thing" in the title, not "think" - funny how so many typos are my fingers typing the wrong word of their own accord! )

[nat8808]

Cheers for moving this - didn't think about where to put it...

[nat8808]

Must be the first music service like this which actually recognises that FLAC is better than MP3! Let alone 96KHz being better than 44.1KHz ...


So the 20th January launch is primarily to promote your new album?

Yes. The album will be available through Baboom and you can stream it for free. The coolest thing about Baboom is that you can stream music in the FLAC format. What makes no sense at all is that everyone is using MP3s – still. MP3 was created when we were still in the modem age. When you go to YouTube and watch a video, it’s full HD now. Why didn’t they do that to music already?

Baboom is going to be all about the quality of the music. I want people to embrace the FLAC format and stream lossless music. Yes, OK, each stream is probably 70-90MB in size and it will cost more bandwidth, but in the end I want every artist who puts their music up there to be confident that it’s being played in the best possible quality.

I am a perfectionist, so when I go into the studio, I can hear the difference between my 96kHz master and a CD. I can hear that. Baboom is all about making music streamable in the highest possible quality.

http://musically.com/2014/01/22/kim-dotcom-interview-baboom-music/

[Peter Stockwell]

www.qobuz.com offers CD quality streaming, via Qobuz desktop and on IOS/Android devices, on a catalogue that's way too big to get my head around.