Naxos Online

[cmr_for3]

Just signed up for this via a local library service. Seems rather good. SQ sounds a touch flat (there is a higher quality option, however it's not functional ) but cannot complain for the amount you get including booklets etc.

Anybody here also a member?

[Edgy 2]

I'm a member of the Naxos Online Music Library,which I use most days,accessed with my Manchester Library card.
It's an amazing resource,loads of my favourite labels,Lyrita,Chandos,CPO etc,I don't have a problem with the sound quality

http://www.for3.org/forums/showthread.php?7506-Online-Naxos-music-library

[LMcD]

just signed up for this via a local library service. Seems rather good. Sq sounds a touch flat (there is a higher quality option, however it's not functional ) but cannot complain for the amount you get including booklets etc.

Anybody here also a member?

sq = ?
(And why has my 'sq' been decapitalized?)

[Edgy 2]

sq = ?
(And why has my 'sq' been decapitalized?)

I assumed sound quality

[Cockney Sparrow]

Sound quality - see #25 on the NML thread (link above). I have to say I'm surprised at the quality I receive (via Local Library service access) and have wondered if it is in fact higher than the stated 128kbs.. I don't have golden ears and my enthusiasm for higher bit rates, resolutions etc don't go beyond CD quality. But then again, I mainly use NML whilst I am working in my home office (so attention divided) or in the kitchen (Audio system but via Bluetooth - also same in workshop) or working in the garden - bluetooth speaker.

I also use it as a "try before I buy" resource. Sitting in front of my main, quality audio system is usually CDs but that works out at a few hours per week.

Some recordings in some labels never seem to make it to NML (I keep checking for Regula Muhlemann's Cleopatra Album on Sony). Other CDs seem to arrive a month or two after release - perhaps to boost all important initial CD sales. However, I find it an astonishing resource - with, as you say, many of the labels providing PDF booklets - an exception being the behemoths of Decca/Universal, Sony and Warner.

I still buy CDs for performances I would regret being without. Its always possible that a label could pull out from NML (Hyperion have never participated). Melodiya was on NML but I note that sometime in recent months the label has disappeared. Apparently the label has been "taken over" in the style of modern day business in Russia - its thought with much more interest in the mega value of the company's Moscow property than the priceless cultural asset of its recordings.

[cmr_for3]

I'm a member of the Naxos Online Music Library,which I use most days,accessed with my Manchester Library card.
It's an amazing resource,loads of my favourite labels,Lyrita,Chandos,CPO etc,I don't have a problem with the sound quality

http://www.for3.org/forums/showthrea...-music-library

Thanks for the thread pointer - was not aware of this one!

[cmr_for3]

sq = ?
(And why has my 'sq' been decapitalized?)

Good question - You have spotted the perils of posting when tired! I shall amend.

[cmr_for3]

I assumed sound quality

Well done that man (or woman) on second thoughts I shall just say person! :)

[cmr_for3]

Sound quality - see #25 on the NML thread (link above). I have to say I'm surprised at the quality I receive (via Local Library service access) and have wondered if it is in fact higher than the stated 128kbs.. I don't have golden ears and my enthusiasm for higher bit rates, resolutions etc don't go beyond CD quality. But then again, I mainly use NML whilst I am working in my home office (so attention divided) or in the kitchen (Audio system but via Bluetooth - also same in workshop) or working in the garden - bluetooth speaker.

I also use it as a "try before I buy" resource. Sitting in front of my main, quality audio system is usually CDs but that works out at a few hours per week.

Some recordings in some labels never seem to make it to NML (I keep checking for Regula Muhlemann's Cleopatra Album on Sony). Other CDs seem to arrive a month or two after release - perhaps to boost all important initial CD sales. However, I find it an astonishing resource - with, as you say, many of the labels providing PDF booklets - an exception being the behemoths of Decca/Universal, Sony and Warner.

I still buy CDs for performances I would regret being without. Its always possible that a label could pull out from NML (Hyperion have never participated). Melodiya was on NML but I note that sometime in recent months the label has disappeared. Apparently the label has been "taken over" in the style of modern day business in Russia - its thought with much more interest in the mega value of the company's Moscow property than the priceless cultural asset of its recordings.

Don't get me wrong I have no major compliant re sound perhaps I was over thinking it.

Thanks for the info on Melodiya, not a label I was aware of. I shall look it up.

[cloughie]

Don't get me wrong I have no major compliant re sound perhaps I was over thinking it.

Thanks for the info on Melodiya, not a label I was aware of. I shall look it up.

Melodiya has moved around labels and companies for distribution forever it seems. The 60s and 70s mostly on EMI for the wonderful Svetlanov/Rozhdestvensky/Kondrashin recordings -then in the 80s on RCA - some great CD issues there. I think since the Wall came down they have moved time and again and appeared all over the place. I have benefited from some low priced downloads of the Svetlanov Miaskovsky Symphonies and the Kondrashin Shostakovich Symphonies.

[jayne lee wilson]

For the record the NML is 128 kpbs aac Standard, 320 aac Premier - this latter identical to Radio 3.

I was surprised to see that the monthly cost is a few pounds higher than Qobuz, which of course has CD/hi-res quality. So if you had to pay for your NML service it may not be the best value out there........

[Cockney Sparrow]

Melodiya has moved around labels and companies for distribution forever it seems. The 60s and 70s mostly on EMI for the wonderful Svetlanov/Rozhdestvensky/Kondrashin recordings -then in the 80s on RCA - some great CD issues there. I think since the Wall came down they have moved time and again and appeared all over the place. I have benefited from some low priced downloads of the Svetlanov Miaskovsky Symphonies and the Kondrashin Shostakovich Symphonies.

I wonder if you are referring to distribution/outside partnership deals which yes has changed over the decades. The Feb 2020 story about Melodiya is that ownership of the master recordings, reproduction rights etc has passed to new owners. And it may be they are more interested in realising Moscow property values. Perhaps they'll sell off the artistic heritage to others (British Home Stores style.....who knows?).

Slipped disc (I know, I know…) :
"Russia sells off its recorded heritage for next to nothing"

https://slippedisc.com/2020/02/russia-sells-off-its-recorded-heritage-for-next-to-nothing/