Best streaming service

[coolpianoman]

I often stream piano pieces from Spotify to refer to when I am practicing a piece but find the selections very limited.  Can anyone recommend a better streaming service for the classical repetiore please?
Many thanks
Chris

[visitor]

I use my naxos music library subscrption. Premium is worth it you get access ti aljyst about everything in their library and all their partners libraries. Were yalking thousands of pieces recordings etc. Including lots of rare and less often recorded works since those recital albums are also made available. It is likely the biggest and broadest database available.  Its prettyamazung actually.

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[coolpianoman]

many thanks for this - I will have a try. I presume like Spotify you can download music to listen to when not on line as the internet is extremely poor where I live and I am often on the move too.
Chris

[visitor]

many thanks for this - I will have a try. I presume like Spotify you can download music to listen to when not on line as the internet is extremely poor where I live and I am often on the move too.
Chris

it's a premium subscription streaming service. You can go to the sister store and purchaseach tracks if you want to download

[coolpianoman]

shame not the one for me then - I don't want to buy tracks to hear them off line.  With Spotify I pay a subscription and I can either hear them on line or download them and hear them even when not connected to the internet and it sounds like this service does not work like that?
Chris

[medtnaculus]

Spotify is far from limited. Through my time using it I've discovered endless amounts of new composers, and some incredibly obscure works. You just need to know how to look.

About a year ago I started making a "to listen" list by just adding stuff to a playlist that I wanted to listen to later, and would delete as I go along. Needless to say it got out of control and now I have about 80,000 tracks across 8 playlists (only listened through about 6000 of them so far!) delving deep into obscure works and unsung composers.

I do think that using it along with lastfm really helps you discover more. Perhaps through the use of certain youtube channels, you can also discover new music to then explore on spotify.

While NAXOS is nice, you have to stay on the website to stream the music and it's not the best in terms of navigation and eaze of use. Spotify already has most of what it has to offer anyway (may I recommend music from the excellent Timpani label, or Toccata classics). I do wish you could filter through labels though on Spotify, would make it easier to discover similar music.

[coolpianoman]

Many thanks for this. I agree the Spotify indexing is poor but I have been using the service for a few years so usually find stuff if it is actually there. I also go to You Tube too.  I do like to find new repertoire and usually find this at masterclasses competitions/festivals R3 and people who play at my piano club too. However my main reason for this post is that I want to find out how something I am practising sounds rather than increase repertoire per se. The off line playing is essential as we have frequent internet outages here.
Chris