Anyone else notice the offer from Qobuz locking in subscription price for 3 years with
prepayment? Offer said to end 12-31. Kind of torn about this. Love my Qobuz but can’t decide without more to go on. Any thoughts?
they initially sent out his offer a few months ago, so this is a last reminder…love Qobuz connect, but I will pass as the state of the streaming world in 3 years is a total unknown…
Good point
I went ahead with locking in pricing for 3 years. I also have a lifetime subscription to Roon.
I do not remember seeing this offer earlier, I better check.
My reminder for the Qobuz 3 year offer was in late September 2025.
I think we may see annual increases for monthly subscribers across ALL streaming platforms moving forward.
Just like we see with video streaming services. I swear some of them go up every month!
It appeared the offer was for Studio plan, not for others. I probably will not switch plan since I still purchase files from Qobuz from time to time.
It must be those tariffs on Canadian, European, and Japanese music!!
Spotify’s rate increase PR mentions nothing about increasing royalties paid to artists.
I’ve got Studio but prepay for the year and they’re not dangling anything under my nose.
But I have noticed some shrinkflation the last year or so where some artists or tracks I previously had access to are walled off.
I pay annually and it’s due in a few weeks. Hopefully if it goes through at the usual rate it will at least last throughout the rest of the year.
I have been using streaming for 100% of my listening for the past few months. This brings me back to the streaming vs physical media question. Qobuz and Tidal are convenient, but paying ahead for a month, a year or even three years is still just paying rent. With CDs or records, you actually own the music. It can’t disappear, the sound doesn’t change, and you don’t need the service to keep working. I like streaming and I’ll continue to use it till they price me out, but I think I’m going to start shifting my primary listening back to physical media I can keep forever.
I do both. It is an option for you and everyone else. And with the top tier service from Qobuz you can actually buy the highest quality files that you can keep forever. At extremely reasonable prices. For that day when the sky is falling.
An interesting conundrum 
I bought a BS Vault 2i 6 years ago to rip a modest collection when my ‘86 vintage Denon CD player finally gave up the ghost. I’d long before grown tired of constantly changing discs when the majority of the time music was mainly a necessary component in the background of a busy life. I figured ripped playback was the perfect solution but the reality is much of my 80’s and 90’s collection no longer interested me.
Streaming entered my life about the same time and has absolutely dominated but it’s still mostly background. Other than a renewed interest in nightly headphone sessions I don’t spend a lot of time in dedicated listening. I’ve added a modest mix of artist direct physical media and downloads (including Octave Records) in the past couple of years but so far I’ve not been tempted to buy a transport.
I get the appeal of Randy, the Cheap Audioman’s argument (@ 6:40) for physical media. In fact his argument is probably the reason why I came to enjoy so many B side type tracks on any given album when I had more free time. But my modest budget is better spent elsewhere.
I might reconsider if I heard the difference between rips and physical media that others report to hear. But I don’t so I’m content with Qobuz to explore, Radio Paradise and my favorite classical station TuneIn streams to color the background, and the occasional new disk rip or album download.