Expand your Music Collection

Playlists are collections of tracks that you can create for listening at different occasions or places, or to suit your mood. They are replacing the concept of an album today (though you will always be able to listen to complete albums with Napster).

Any Music Lost & Found Playlist can be rapidly saved to become one of your Napster Playlists, and you can add or delete songs on this playlist instantly, or add them to other playlists you’ve saved.

Saving the playlist just involves clicking the 3 dots to the right of the Sign Out, and then clicking on the "Create" for the "Save Songs" Playlist box. It will then appear as a playlist in your Napster account with web app, or desktop app.

This whole process takes about 4 seconds.

You can save the ultimate personal library of Music you like for your Home Stereo, or your car or phone..You have a library of over 40 Million songs that is yours as a Napster user , and the playlists will help you to play what you want to hear, at any given moment.

Most of the people that have become fans of the Music Lost & Found Shows and Playlists, grew up with the best music in the history of music. If this includes you, then you probably got your first music on Vinyl records, and you followed bands that resonated with your tastes. You are the “Best Music Generation”, also known as the “Baby Boomer” generation. You then had to switch to CD’s, as this was pushed hard by the music industry, and was more “convenient” than records. And sometime later, you experienced a decade or more of bad music on the radio, and it became hard to find new music you would enjoy listening to. All you were really left with, was listening to Classic Oldies you have already heard many times.

We created the Music Lost & Found, for these reasons. We have the best music produced in the 50’s, 60’s and 70’s and we are “unencumbered” by Studio deals that only promote the artists the studio makes money from. Some of our music will include songs you have heard before, and some will be songs from the great artists that were listened to by the top 100 artists of the day…these being the “Influencers” of the “Best Music” era, but they were not owned by music studios or labels, and even though great, were never promoted. Many of these artists will be new to you, and with a sound and creativity you will love. The Music Lost & Found will also help you to collect many dozens of these “new” songs, and other familiar songs you love, and to easily PLAY these collections wherever you are, in the order you want, and to share these collections with any friends and family you might want to share with.

Today many people don’t have good music in their lives like people did in the 70’s. More than likely, if the 70’s were big for your music development, whatever stereo you have now, while it may be very high quality, it will not “Stream” music. So even if you found a good song on your phone, you can’t play it on your living room stereo. Fortunately, you can make your old stereo “Stream” like a brand-new stereo for only about $35, so lets just figure this is a non-issue for the moment.

What is streaming, and why would the best music generation need this today?

There are many Music Streaming services today. Most specialize in music for the Millennial generation, the terrible stuff common on top 100 radio today, including Hip hop and Rap. They can’t sing, there is no harmony, it is not music to our ears.

But there are also Streaming services that cover all genres of music, including the best ones, and the technology of streaming allows you to have access to over 40 million songs, for as little as $10 per month. You get to play unlimited music, and pretty much any song you want to find, 24 – 7 exactly as is you had these same songs on a CD – except exponentially easier for you to find what you want to play, and you don’t need to carry around all the CD’s it would take to hold 40 million songs. If someone asks you to play virtually any given song at the next dinner party you are at—you can find it and play it instantly.

One objective with Streaming, is to DISCOVER GREAT MUSIC you have lost track of, and to discover music you have not yet heard, but that has the sound you love. With a streaming service like Napster, you get pretty much any song you or a friend could ever ask for, and you can hear the song with the sound quality the artist intended. And of course, you get our Music Lost & Found Playlists, and stories about where this music came from, to help you on your journey to discover much more music you will then keep in your own “Playlists”.

Playlists are essentially the new albums…though you can still save complete albums as favorites, and play them exactly as you used to. With Playlists, you decide on a mood you want the music to represent, and tempo, genres, etc., and you name the playlist, then just start adding songs to it. This is amazingly simple and rapid. If you really like a new song by an artist you were just exposed to on Napster while playing the song, you can click on the artist, and see everything this artist has ever recorded. This can take you to many other songs you will love, and other related artists that are mentioned. Think early morning wake-up playlists, playlists to have on while working on the computer…playlists for Driving your car, playlists for dinner parties, and playlists for cocktail parties. You can have Christmas Playlists for family get togethers, and on and on. They can be 20 minutes long, 4 hours long, or they can go on for days. This music will sound great on headphones or on home stereos.

Your smart phone with headphones is great for streaming music, though there are some phones that are much better. The issue is a piece of circuitry done well in a couple of phones, and done at a mediocre level in others…this is called the DAC or Digital Audio Converter. Right now, LG V20’s, LG V30’s and LG V40’s are the best deal for high end DAC and low price. They will play at CD Quality or better. Many other phones can approach CD quality, like the Samsung phones, and others may be much closer to Mp3 quality sound. Figure Wireless earbuds or even wireless over the ear phones, don’t play with much beyond Mp3 quality. Good over the ear headphones, that are wired, can be CD quality, all the way to extreme Hi Def 24 bit/192Hz for audiophiles. A phone like the LG V20, can output through an inexpensive RCA cable, to your Home Stereo Receiver, and become the musical source for the receiver. The phone is a great way to discover new music, hearing playlists, or just searching while you are on the go. You mark your favorites, and come back to them whenever you want.

Sometimes you find some music you consider to be the absolute best, most important music to you, and you want to own it, and be able to play it in the closest quality to it’s actual form out of the production studio as a “Studio Master”. Typically, this is 24 bits, and either 96 Hz or 192 Hz. And without trying to be confusing, there are also recordings that are produced better than others by the studios, and this will effect how spectacular the full res hi def recording will sound. This is where you take the song you have discovered on Napster, maybe from the Music Lost & Found Playlists, and then visit an HD store online, such as HDTracks.com , or an HD artist site the Neil Young Archives…When you buy an HD download, you can play this through your older stereo, with anything from a good phone like the LG V20, to a spectacular Digital Audio Player like the PONO Player, or the Fiio X7, or the Astell & Kern AK 70….these all allow personal headphone use, and each can output to a home stereo and sound spectacular.

And there are more expensive and incrementally better ways to playback HD music on your home stereo, which we will get into in future articles and emails.

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