Unsubscribed ( to Qobuz)

Hehe.

Just a thought, you might want to check the terms and conditions. I bet you don’t actually own your music, you own the LP CD etc, but not the music.

Semantics I know, but is streaming music so different? You don’t own the music either, you just have a short term renewable lease :laughing:

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I have a physical copy of it which is subject to the usual conditions. I can play it for ever and it won’t cost me another penny. Play forever or pay to play until I stop paying and it stops playing. I’d suggest it’s more than semantics.

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You miss my point, you don’t own the ‘music’, which was what you said. Semantics.

Not big deal just made me chuckle.

It does you good to laugh.

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I have both Qobuz and Tidal listening via Roon, the Qobuz subscription is due in November and I’m seriously considering not renewing. The idea was to find music I like and use the sublime subscription to download it a bit cheaper. But what I am finding is Qobuz doesn’t seem to have as much choice that I like as opposed to Tidal and quite a few of my potential downloads were not reduced in price. Like others I have been carefully buying CD’s and ripping them. As I’m still exploring Jazz if I find something Ilike I can usually get it used from WOB or Music Magpie or even Amazon. Occasionally I like a high res version of something and I will purchase usually at a premium price.

I do find Bandcamp really good as I like the combination of ordering the record and getting a download as well.

Tim

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Some of those thoughts resonate.

We too, have continued buying and ripping CD’s to add to our server based collection. ( Instead of using the streaming platform or even buying and downloading a copy instead).

Maybe something others have eluded to, that collecting physical media is an established behaviour difficult to overcome?

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To me the convenience and ultimately sound of Qobuz is the most important reason I no longer buy/download music. I have 2,200 albums ripped if the service ever goes tits up. Here in Canada a year subscription is around $150 dollars, so a tiny fraction of the cost of my gear. If anything, I might consider buying PGGB software and the appropriate computer to upsample some of my favorite albums.
This software definitely works as advertised, I have about 20 songs upsampled to 32 bit/ 705 KHz and they sound vastly superior to the 16/44.1 equivalent. The software creator is working on real time upsampling, so streaming services such as Tidal/Qobuz can be upsampled on the fly, rather than needing to store the files.

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I use Qobuz but I do find the app rather lack lustre and hard to navigate sometimes. I also find that you can end up listening to the same few albums over and over again as a result.

I tend to read a lot of music websites and sources as a way to discover new music, look them up and listen to them on Qobuz and if I really like them, I use the Qobuz store to buy a hi-res downloadable copy. That way if I ever take a break from my subscription, I still have the key albums I want to listen to.

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I have never had trouble navigating the App on my streamer, or phone at all, not sure what issues you might be having?

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To be fair, it was more when I was using Roon (which I have recently stopped using). The landing page in Roon defaults to recommendations and new releases and you have to click around to get to your favourites.

Not a massive pain, but it used to annoy me. Probably that way as Roon want you to integrate all your music together; but I basically have my own collection and then use Qobuz to listen to new releases and things I am considering buying.

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I have used Roon too, their strong suit is ease of use IMO.

With a change to T&Cs in a few days I’m concerned Qobuz may lose several labels or artists.

It’s interesting quite a few people have considered dropping one or more streaming services.

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These titles will very soon disappear from Qobuz:

  • Blind, Insane (titre) par Porpoise Corpus
  • Bumper Cars (titre) par Alfa Mist
  • Don’t Say You Love Me (titre) par Samantha Fish
  • Midnite Oil (titre) par Joe Armon-Jones
  • Money To Burn (titre) par Samantha Fish
  • Move On (titre) par Samantha Fish
  • On The Road, Pt.2 (titre) par Incognito
  • Plaistow Flex Out (titre) par Apifera
  • Small Mercies (titre) par Jonathan Jeremiah
  • Ten-storey Falling (titre) par Jonathan Jeremiah
  • There Will Come A Day (titre) par Incognito
  • Muscle Shoals: Small Town, … (album) par Muscle Shoals
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See the separate thread.

It’s odd as @fotobrooks and I have the same Deep Purple album (potentially) but I’ve not had a deletion email. Might all those titles be on the same label?

I don’t know. I have just received the mail with the list.

What I’m maybe concerned about is if they are sending emails by specific labels or sub-licensed labels we might get multiple emails as the system trawls purchase histories.

Plus these

  • All Things Must Pass (album) by George Harrison
  • Cruel Country (album) by Wilco
  • Dear Scott (album) by Michael Head & The Red Elastic Band
  • FM (album) by Ryan Adams
  • Grotto (album) by Wilma Vritra
  • Into The Blue (album) by Broken Bells
  • Jazz At The Plaza Vol 1 (album) by Miles Davis
  • Sometimes You Hurt The Ones… (album) by Damien Jurado
  • The Bends (album) by Rosie Carney
  • The Bible (album) by Lambchop
  • The Decline of the Country … (album) by Lambchop
  • The Songs Of Bacharach & Co… (album) by Elvis Costello, Burt Bacharach
  • Ultraviolet Battle Hymns an… (album) by The Dream Syndicate
  • iTunes Sessions (album) by Wilco
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I’v started a ‘list’ type thread separately in Music, would you like to add?

Any idea if most of these are on a similar label?

Done and no I believe these are across multiple (parent) labels

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It’s the Deep Purple example that concerns me as I’ve not had a warning about that, again unless it’s a regional Qobuz store difference.