Neil Young’s Lonely Quest to Save Music

I admit I do use Pandora and have done for years but just when travelling and playback through my laptop in the hotel.

Built up some killer stations over the years, something that I agree neither Tidal or Qobuz seem to got a handle on yet.

I usually stream Qobuz from my phone to any rental car I have via Bluetooth and it's fine in the car which is always background music tbh.

At home it is nearly always Qobuz hirez.

At home I listen to Qobuz more than anything else, unless I can't find something, then I go to Tidal.  I can use it in my car too, but Spotify is a little more user friendly.  It's integrated with Waze, which I use all the time and it's also on the touch screen panel on the Kenwood music player in my truck.

I saw Neil Young and the old members of Buffalo Springfield play at the Bridge School Benefit a few years ago. He was still married to his ex so must have been 5 years ago. I think Pearl Jam also played with Neil that day (or year before).  Anyways, Young was still an excellent performer back then.

As Tim Cook, the head of Apple, recently told a reporter, without any evident trace of humor, “We worry that the humanity is being drained out of music.”

That is the first positive statement from Apple regarding their destruction of music quality.

I would not get my hopes up. The dystopian reality of Silicon Valley is they have decided that whenever their hoped for fantasies fail in the real world its easier to write programs to keep people from learning about it than to actually figure out how to do it right.

Question- does/did Neil Young get it right with his Ponomusic system? The weak link is still the back end of that system for most average music consumers, no?