Attractive design. Large catalog. Podcasts. Lossless 24-bit audio support. 

It begins with the Primephonic catalogue. Before subscribers had the run of approximately 100,000 tracks – which sounds like a lot until half your searches return a blank – while now that number has increased ten-fold to more than a million. It still isn’t an entirely exhaustive library. Contemporary classical was a major blind spot during our initial testing, and it's still where Primephonic is most lacking, but, where some artists had been completely ignored, there are usually at least a couple of works now present. Composers we mentioned in our previous review such as Arvo Pärt and Philip Glass now have a more extensive catalogue available on the service, though you’ll still be left wanting for much by way of Lubomyr Melnyk or Nils Frahm. But the library is growing daily, and is of course reliant on the partnerships Primephonic is able to forge. The ones it has with Warner Classics and Sony Classical help, as do those with specialist labels such as Naxos, Harmonia Mundi, Chandos,... 

Primephonic is designed to let classical music lovers browse by period. During my review period, I pitted Primephonic against my Roon server (where I have Tidal integrated). 

Jul 04, 2019 ·  And the third pillar is the earning model; Primephonic works with ‘pay per second’ to overcome the problem outlined above of paying per streamed track. The longer a piece is listened to, the higher the fee. Until mid-June 2019, the American-Dutch Primephonic was only available in the Netherlands, the US and the United Kingdom. 

Primephonic Review - classical music streaming in up to 24-bit lossless FLAC. Available globally from £/$/€9.99 to £/$/€14.99/month. 

According to a survey, classical music fans are more technically savvy than pop music fans – yet they stream much less.Primephonic’s creators believe that disparity is caused by the lack of quality options for classical streaming, and so it decided to rectify that with a Spotify-esque service specifically tailored to classical music. 

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