Berlin, Germany-born Classical music streaming service IDAGIO has launched a free tier.
The service is now available via three tiers: IDAGIO Free, IDAGIO Premium, and IDAGIO Premium+.
IDAGIO offers a catalog of over 2 million tracks and has had over 1.6 million app downloads, with subscribers in 190 countries.
Free users will also have access to personalized recommendations and exclusive recordings from orchestras such as the Vienna Philharmonic and conductors such as Sir Simon Rattle and Valery Gergiev.
With IDAGIO Premium and IDAGIO Premium+, users can listen in lossless audio quality (FLAC), store music offline and listen to IDAGIO via systems like Chromecast, Bluesound, Sonos and Burmester.
IDAGIO Premium costs $9.99 and IDAGIO Premium+ costs $12.99 per month.
“Our world is becoming faster, more hectic and more competitive every day. It gets increasingly difficult for people to cope with the fast pace of day-to-day-life. Classical music is timeless, global and grounded: it enables us to pause.”
Till Janczukowicz, IDAGIO
IDAGIO CEO and Founder Till Janczukowicz, said: “Our world is becoming faster, more hectic and more competitive every day. It gets increasingly difficult for people to cope with the fast pace of day-to-day-life. Classical music is timeless, global and grounded: it enables us to pause.
“A central part of our mission is to bring its beauty and calming power to people everywhere – regardless of age, origin or income. With IDAGIO Free, we see this as a decisive step in the democratization of classical music.”Music Business Worldwide