Using Favourites is a good idea, I generally used it to ‘bookmark’ albums I have physical copies of and won’t buy or ones to trial, it would make sense to use it for prospective purchases and add them in batches to the basket - I’d actually wanted to unload from the Basket to Favourites to purchase a subset, and that is far more time consuming.
Did anybody receive their discount coupons after the big sale of Qobuz as promised ?
I didn‘ t
I’m still waiting for the personal thank you from Lisa Simone for getting her to No. 4 on the Qobuz download chart.
A day re comments on album art. This album is a little gem and must get the prize for multiple cover art yours I haven’t seen before.
me too!
Still didn’t get the codes, and in addition they didn’t respond to my service desk ticket. 1st class customer service doesn’t seem to have made the list of priorities at Qobuz…
Just sent a new mail to the Qobuz support desk. As they also have chosen as usual to not react to service request… what a company…
Now also posted on their Facebook page…, hope they finally will honor their commercial obligations…
Finally got an answer, they will post the codes in the next days…
Thx for the infomation!
Still waiting here for the codes. They take an exceptional long time to deliver this. Quite disappointing as the keep on introducing new marketing actions…
Finally received it. Immediately bought for 280 euros of music while only paying 200 euros, at already better Qobuz prices. Will be some listening this weekend…
I wasn’t organised enough to qualify for any discount codes, split a few purchases on diffeent days, and in fact I emptied my basket of dozens of albums I thought I really ought to stream first to see if I liked them rather than jumping in simply for the discounts. Odd for me as I normally can’t resist taking a chance on a good offer, but there are so many I’ve bought in the last two years I haven’t even listened to yet, but I keep telling myself they were ‘bargains’.
Same goes for Amazon promotions which seem to be becoming more frequent - I have several 20TB dual disk hard drives I bought last year unopened to amalgamate content from smaller ones (they were still cheaper than current prices, but that won’t last).
Was happy too early, download problems again with Qobuz…, as almost usual…
Good grief - several 20Tb hard drives?! How much music do you have?
The music would be a couple of TB at most, but I have taken a heck of a lot of digital video/photos over the years and have purchased numerous TV Shows/Movies from iTunes Store, as well as format shifted DVD video and so forth (I keep the physical DVDs).
I don’t think many of us had any idea 10 years ago how commercial cloud services/streaming would easily render storing personal/purchased media locally appear superfluous in the eyes of many consumers, but it’s only very recently that streaming audio/video quality has reached a level which can compete with the best physical copies/players. Despite significant strides in streaming quality internet speeds are rate limiting for many too.
I have literally dozens of poorly organised external drives with copies of copies of copies of my media and personal documents on them (but no off site copy which I must remedy), ranging from drives holding a few hundred MB from the 90’s to portable ones generally around 4-5TB in recent years. A single 4-5TB drives would no longer hold all my video/photos/music in one place and while I guess I’ll keep them as multi-part backups, I intend to have a much larger single volume attached to my main Mac.
The downside of these huge drive of course is they take longer to populate/copy, and you could lose more data with a single hardware failure hence the plan to keep older copies on smaller drives.
I could achieve the same with multiple small drives attached to a hub, but I want a neater solution.
I’ve not had download issues for quite some time.
Interestingly a few hours ago I was browsing their site and that seemed considerably snappier than it has done in the past.
Fascinating. I’m sitting here looking at my entire DVD collection (approx 300 assorted boxed sets and films), thinking that I’m unlikely to ever watch 90% of them again. That being the case I see no point in ripping them to a drive - I shall probably just charity shop them. I spent a good few months recently rationalising my digital photo collection, which is now down to c.500Gb - again, the bulk of these will never see the light of day. I’m guessing my kids will keep the ones that have been printed and put in albums recording their childhoods, and the rest will quietly disappear into the void when the Macs and Mac Books are eventually superseded.
I doubt very much my 2TB music collection will survive me by much! The next generation seem to have little time for physical media, with the exception of collector vinyl. My kids laugh at my A&K player - they use iPhone to stream everything, with either cheap and cheerful earphones on the move or Bluetooth speakers in the house.
Having not long ago charity shopped and land filled all my parents’ worldly goods, I’m only too aware of the transitory nature of media. I wish you luck in your ambitious venture, and hope you get much use and pleasure from your numerous Terabytes!
It would be fair to say that I’m as much of a digital hoarder as I am a physical hoarder!
A load of the video/photos may be rubbish, but it’s having time to go through it all and weed it out. A lot of this stuff relates to the kids when they were younger and I’m therefore even more reluctant to delete things - it’ll be something to get my teeth into when I retire perhaps, though that’s way off currently!
A lot of the ripped media was for the kids too when I was dabbling with media players and it seemed a good way of protecting the optical media from sticky/careless paws.
As many of us switch to viewing streaming content there is still a vast amount of content that is not available to stream, may never be, or may be pulled by the rights holders in the future - I guess most movies are fairly safe in this regard, but you’d struggle to find many older BBC series available on DVD on the main streaming platforms, so perhaps be selective in terms of what you chuck out!