Neil Young's complete archives are now streaming online for free
Back in April, we reported that Neil Young was working with a company called Orastream to develop a new streaming service called Xstream that would present high-quality audio files that could adjust to lower qualities based on a user’s internet connection and computing power, all at a reasonable cost that would avoid making it “an elitist thing.” It was a better version of an idea that Young has been pushing for a while, previously with a $400 iPod competitor called Pono that was terrible in every way (it was triangular, albums were more expensive, it was called Pono, etc.), all in the name of introducing people to the wonder of music that isn’t outrageously compressed—like what you might find on iTunes.