When I first acquired my Muso Qb I as very impressed with Tidal and immediately listed a number of my favourite albums. But all of a sudden one of my biggest favourites, Kraus Tennstedt conducting the London Phil in a stunning live performance of the Beethoven Eroica, is no longer there. Fortunately I have the CD for the main system.
Is this a regular occurrence?
Regards,
Lindsay
It certainly happens on Spotify. Whole albums disappear or sometimes individual tracks are blanked out so they can’t be selected. No idea why. I always assumed it was something to do with licensing.
It’s for this reason that many choose to listen and buy.
It’s certainly not unheard of for albums or tracks to stop playing, and to appear greyed out in the menu, for no apparent reason. In my experience this has been very rare, and I can only think if one case where I bought a CD and ripped it because of this.
When this happens it seems that it’s generally because the artist, or more likely the record label, has decided they don’t want to make it available via that streaming service.
For me, the vast amount of music available more than outweighs the irritation of these very rare disapprerances from the catalogue.
And to add on to this point. Albums/Tracks can reappear just as fast as they’ve been removed.
When this has been discussed before, one identified reason is changing licensing by the record company.
As Guinless suggested, if never losing music is important to you then having in your own store is the way. I certainly wouldn’t want to risk my favourite music becoming unavailable through the changes made by an online service provider, whether temporary or permanent, now or 20 years time, or whatever the cause: licensing, popularity, business failure etc.
I had this recently on Qobuz with Convergence by Malia and Boris Blank…not even in their download site. So i bought it as a cd on the river, happy days for me.
I rarely scroll through the 1,000 albums in my favorites without one being newly greyed out. At least this happened on Tidal. When an album is important to me, I tend to buy it for this very reason and in the hope that the artist gets a small cut.
Sometimes they are really gone, I guess as mentioned by others due to licensing changes. However, it seems that more often than not it’s just that the favorited album entry disappeared and it became available again as a new entry. So, it often pays off to re-search of to go to Artist > Albums to find the new one.
DAMN!!
I hate it when Qobuz does this - time to buy the CD …done.
Hi Lindsay
The live Tennstedt Eroica is still on Tidal. Only a MQA version though. I agree that it’s a very fine performance.
Chris
I am finding Qobuz the worst offender for this at the moment but it does happen across them all due to licensing.
I tend to think of streaming as a privilege rather than a right to somebody’s music.
I find it happens on tidal
Bit half the time they come back again…in a week or a month
Not ideal…but you can mostly buy the cd and rip it as a permanent solution if the album is that important
Thank you guys.
@Chris_Shorter. I see they’ve linked it with other stuff whereas the original release included the Night on a Bare Mountain which I understand was the encore on the night.
@anon23139555 yes get hold of an original copy.
Best regards,
Lindsay
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