Music downloading is a “transition technology” to streaming, Axel...
Music downloading is a “transition technology” to streaming, Axel Dauchez, CEO of Deezer, the French music streaming service, said Wednesday in London at the launch of new Deezer music search and recommendation features. “People may have had pride in owning…
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vinyl or CDs, but no one feels file ownership means anything any more,” Dauchez said. “There’s no pride in owning a file. We are moving to a streaming world.” Deezer now claims its streaming service is among the world’s “biggest,” with 30 million tracks, and an average of 27,000 new tracks from all genres and countries added every day. The number of paid subscribers has doubled in the past year -- to 5 million across more than 180 countries, the company said. Tracks are available at 128 kbps in MP3 (the default) with an option for 320 kbps, it said. Dauchez says Deezer has for the past six months been putting Free Audio Lossless Codec versions on its servers but is not yet offering them for streaming because 75 percent of all Deezer’s subscribers are using mobile devices with limited and expensive mobile connections.