Yeah - I’m only giving them a week to get this straight and have not told my wife or she would go ape-$hit… So - downloading sux, billing sux, we’ll see about customer service this week. I’m not a fan of MQA - not a hater, just not a fan and wanted to see how good Qobuz was over a year…
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Their streaming is great, and for that I will still keep it. I haven’t dabbled in the downloading realm yet, but I would assume the quality of the files is good? I can’t recall if you have any Qobuz downloads.
The Amazon hi Res service is rumored to be available at $15/mo before the end of year.
Lets hope that shakes things up a little
What is Hi rez for them, CD ?
No apparently real Hi-Res
Great news cause I have well over 100K tracks local library so I may just dump Qobuz next week if they pull you have 2 emails of which I never used the 2nd email… the crap Tidal pulled… got to watch your credit card and PayPal… sneaky companies are pretty slick…
I cancelled my one month trial 48 hrs. before the trial end date with no billing issues. Let’s just say that Audacity was my most used software on my homebrew music server that month. I like the sound and no MQA, but it’s too much money for me per month/per year. I won’t do Tidal because of all that funky MQA rendering stuff. But Neil Young’ Archives website at $20/year is a steal and I enjoy/stream it A LOT !.
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@JeffofArabica - remember how stoked I was getting Sublime. Then I looked at smooth jazz downloads. They had 18 USA and 15 sucked. You then went and checked world and found 19 albums. I have 400 smooth jazz albums and I’m a nobody… that was it for me on the downloads. Then I got my DMP working amazing and bought 316 CDs last month and super pumped. Thanks Qobuz for sucking at the download game; got me looking at other downloading.
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Have both the Tidal (mqa) & Qobuz sublime subscription ever since they exist over here in the Netherlands.
Besides better SQ and user interface both in the classical and (smooth-) jazz genres the Qobuz catalog surpasses Tidal’s. Reading @cardri‘s experiences there has to be something terribly wrong with Qobuz’s US-search engine and/or US-catalog build which is still a work in progress…
One can buy everything Qobuz is offering for streaming + more. Got quite some downloads myself (most at great sublime-discount), all are exquisite. Exclusively offering the real genuine originals in format/bitrate of choice Qobuz does not mess with files.
Personally use Tidal exclusively for music Qobuz doesn’t offer (which is not that much, mainly in the hard & heavy genre…)
@wijber - Jazz is different than smooth jazz. I don’t listen to traditional jazz for more than 10min. I like low brow smooth jazz.
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Jeff
Sign up for Soundiz and transfer all of your EU favorites and playlists to their database. Then open the US and account and transfer all your EU information to the US account from Soundiz then cancel the EU account. Only way I know to do it.
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@cardri Following the ‘what are you spinning’ thread i think i know what you mean by smooth jazz and there’s a LOT of that over here on Qobuz
…before this move you better check out their US-catalog…
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@wijber - this is about downloads. The streaming is fabulous on smooth jazz. Even @JeffofArabica tried helping me w/ his European account and got about what I got. Very weird. I assumed it was licensing issue then Jeff came away with the same thing…
You see how many smooth jazz I get on Qobuz. No issue and I am not a fan of Tidal MQA so I got Sublime figuring straight up high res and downloading was disappointing.
I haven’t messed with it for over a month. Like I said, it got me back to CDs and downloads elsewhere. I will give it another look this week.
So, if you are interested, and you know the low brow jazz I listen to… let me know what you get. No need selling Qobuz, streaming… it is wonderful. Not an MQA hater, just sounds thin and fake in my system. Also, got rid of BII w/ Matrix to DSD.
That is weird! Using their webpage i can buy and download everything they offer for streaming & more (due to licensing some albums only stream in samples, to unlock them one needs to buy…)
@wijber - OK, this week I will try it again and send you some screen shots explaining what I got. It may be me… I do stupid stuff… not immune…
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@wijber - I just went to the download store for cool jazz and this is what I got… great having an excellent memory… 
Forgot - if I remember right 15 of these suck! so these are the best albums of cool jazz… like I said, I have over 400 albums… Now if I go to Qobuz and look at the jazz section for streaming it sux… however, if I search, there is no smooth jazz artist it does not find…
Conclusion - to me - they have all the albums of smooth jazz I will ever want… somewhere… just not accessible as easy as Tidal. Now downloads suck… one thing you can’t say is that they don’t have smooth jazz artists… just need to work on GUI… now if I wanted the traditional Jazz… the jazz selection streaming is a lot…
Type artist and/ or title in the search box above, enter and see what you get 
(deselecting all filter -incl. smooth jazz- might help)
@wijber - yes, you can find them easy and they are there. I am interested in selection to look at and go… wait a minute, I don’t have that band… or that looks like a great band I don’t have If I don’t have the band, how do you search on what you don’t know…
Recap - the content is there… never dismissed that… the streaming is the same way… you have to search for a band and have to know the band…
Understand what I’m saying. Why group jazz into types if you suck at rounding them up… weird… why have a category if you don’t organize that category… stupid… I would never use Qobuz to gather new bands to look at and that is such a powerful tool to help audiophiles discover new music… and buy it… look at the $1500 they lost on me last month.
Now, if I was a professor of music studies at Harvard… would not require those buttons… I would know everything there is to know about that type of music. Think of the money they just lost. You think I am the only one new to Qobuz that just went WOW, their smooth jazz selection for downloads sux… all because they did not organize their own music content and the coding for that is $50K at best…
How could you not organize the content on a (3) click button… It reminds me of the PSA cover art… really… I’m sitting with an IPad (assume 50% have them) with meta data gathered more than any server PSA has (review, cover art, band details, Moms address of the band members…) and squinting at a cheesy DMP display that says no we don’t have that CD in our cover art server. However, if you spend 30min writing down each track we will store it for the next person Of course they have 25% of my albums and how about the classical versions, pressings… REALLY, who did not get fired on that one! I would have been walked out for that idea or my design team would be talking all kinds of smack behind my back…
OH, so here is the filter…
@wijber - here, let me help you… you search on smooth jazz… they have a useless smooth jazz button connected to ?
So, yes… I found out how to get around a useless jazz/smooth jazz button… thanks for pushing me to figure it out today. I will apply the same logic to streaming and see what I get… now I will disregard the top row of useless (assuming) buttons and use the search… I will now get crafty at the searches. They are coming out with an updated search algorithm…
Thanks!
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