Passionato, a new UK music service for classical music fans may one day end up being seen as the benchmark for online music sites.
Classical music fans are often - not always - deeply committed audiophiles, many want high-quality music, prefer vinyl and listen to their songs using expensive music systems. Such users never been attracted by services such as iTunes because they feel the compression quality used makes the audio insufficiently HiFi - Passionato changes this.
Passionato sells DRM-free music as 320kbps MP3 files, or lossless FLAC files. Customers can hear 60-second samples of tracks, explore reviews, user ratings and more. And music fans can even tell others about their preferred composers using a series of widgets the service provides for sites like MySpace or FaceBook.
Marking the launch of the service, everyone who registers at passionato.com can claim 10 free pre-selected tracks, one of which is which is an entire 30-minute work (current pre-selected work isSaint-Saens’ Symphony No.3), a report claims.
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