Neil Young Archives now available globally on BluOS offering HiRes streaming of the legendary Canadian rocker’s fan-focussed service on leading HiFi brand kit. The BluOS HiRes wireless distributed audio and management platform has extended its integration of Neil Yong Archives (NYA) previously only available to North American customers to a worldwide audience. The launch is timed to be available for the 20th November 2020 release of a 131-track multi-album collection ARCHIVES VOL. II: 1972-1976, which will be available as a 10-CD Limited Edition Deluxe Box Set and as streaming content to NYA subscribers.
Using the BluOS Controller app and via a BluOS enabled device from NAD Electronics, Bluesound, DALI Loudspeakers, and Monitor Audio, subscribers to Neil Young Archives will have the ability to stream the musician’s entire discography in Xstream studio-quality resolution. Non-subscribers can sample Neil Young Archives’ ‘Song of the Day’ and ‘Album of the Week’ in Xstream HiRes for free. Additional content is available to NYA subscribers via the NYA website and app, including all of his audio and video content, memorabilia, notes, lyrics, original manuscripts, and news.
The Xstream integration is built on OraStream’s adaptive streaming protocol utilizing the MPEG 4 SLS codec in BluOS, introduced late last year as part of its goal to offer high-resolution music content options for its users. Music files are encoded and delivered in their native resolution, thereby retaining and preserving the nuances and details of the original source file.
Young says, “I am very pleased to be able to expand access to my archives to the global BluOS community since I know that they appreciate great Xstream hi-res sound and would never settle for what mainstream devices and streaming services could offer. Although my music already sounds better on all devices because our master’s high-resolution source is so pure combining the best source with the superior playback of devices using BluOS will easily unwrap the true emotional hit from my hi-res music.”
The Neil Young Archives (neilyoungarchives.com) is a website and app where fans have access to Neil Young’s audio, video, memorabilia, notes, lyrics, original manuscripts and an eight-page newspaper. All of his music is streamed in Xstream, NYA’s name for adaptive HiRes streaming developed by OraStream. The site went live in December 2018 and has tens of thousands of paid members. A subscription costs $19.99 per year.
BluOS is a multi-room audio ecosystem that manages stored and cloud music sources and playback, with support for high-resolution audio streams up to 24-bit/192kHz. It offers integrations with popular streaming music services like TIDAL, Spotify, and Deezer, as well as featuring support for FLAC, WAV, MQA, and other high-resolution formats and codecs,
