What is All Streaming?

All Streaming collects all streaming available from Spotify, Tidal, Apple Music, Deezer, Bandcamp and YouTube and embeds them onto our site, on a separate page each. After each year, they will be added to our ‘previous-years’-section.
All Streaming is thereby an excellent overview of the most important releases per year, but also a good overview of what matters in the current music world.

When added, I look especially for releases from labels I trust, and if they're older they must have statue of some kind. For instance, a Wikipedia-page helps, or a healthy score on sites like Rate Your Music. The current availability on CD or Vinyl also has an influence. We also try to avoid commonly accepted bad albums by artists, but we love our guilty pleasures. Actually, we think there's no such thing as a 'guilty pleasure'. Music is either good, or it isn't! The main focus is on studio albums, but ever so often live albums, compilations, mixtapes and archival albums are added too, but only if their legacy supports that. 

The purpose of All Streaming is to urge visitors to delve into our rich history of popular music. I zealously advice people to albums from back to back, but also to discover some unexpected deep cuts. Good music has never gone away. If All Streaming proves one thing, it's that each and every year gives us stunning classics and unexpected gems, worthy to be listened to, a hundred years from now.

Do why are you doing this?

Most importantly because I'm a big fan myself, and I want to urge newcomers and old fans alike to keep in touch with what’s out there, while also investigating old stuff and maybe be surprised into liking something they thought they didn't. Plus – while I hold CDs and LPs in high regard – I just love streaming. Isn’t it amazing that even obscure albums, in the old days just a rumor, legend or high-paid-for import item, are now just a mouse click away? I constantly urge listeners to go out on a hunting trip, go on safari, and explore the gems that are out there for you to discover!

So how should I use it?

Just delve into my site, and click the albums you would like to investigate. For actual listening to full albums in some cases you need to download a program (Spotify for example) or have a real account (the others). Apple Music offers in our opinion the best way to listen to 30sec. clips. Bandcamp and YouTube are free and will play while you remain on All Streaming. 

Can you just do this?

Yeah. It’s all just links, and links are allowed. Even the artwork, while permitted through fair use, is downgraded in quality, although I have taken great care to find the best artwork-pictures available. Of course the really good thing is, if you click a Spotify-, Deezer- or Apple Music-player, the bands get paid. Of course, if you buy a CD and/or Vinyl, all hail to you the more. So I just can’t imagine anyone not liking All Streaming.

What’s more that I should know?

First you should really, and I mean REALLY, click some of the Amazon-buttons. While compiling this site I was amazed how many albums are still or again available on LP, sometimes new, sometimes second hand. And not at all expensive.

Any other thoughts?

If you miss a certain album on my site, tell me. Albums that I might have missed out, or if you're in a band yourself, or representing an artist, send me a e-mail at progstreaming@gmail.com and I’ll consider adding it. If you have a GREAT idea what to add to my site, please use the same link.
So, there’s my concept. It was designed and is still maintained with a lot of love by my dear friend Ron and we both hope you will enjoy and discover lot of new excellent music!

Cheers,
Markwin