Note that Qobuz also has a store for drm free music. It‘s not just a streaming service.
DRM free high resolution lossless music, to be more specific. Their prices are quite high, though. Some normal album might cost 20€, while you can get the same album in same resolution and DRM free for 10€ in Bandcamp (a US company, unfortunately).
As a side note, next week’s Friday (March 6th) is Bandcamp Friday, which means 100% of money you spend there goes to the bands and publishers. Bandcamp won’t take anything for themselves. https://daily.bandcamp.com/features/bandcamp-fridays
I’m very happy with Qobuz. Switched over last year after 15 years of Spotify. The price is a little higher but it has more High quality recordings. Plus they give more money to artists per stream, and actively try to work against AI slop.
The biggest downside is that they don’t let you choose your language. (That they think everyone on Belgium speaks French is even worse since most people in Belgium actually speak Dutch)
I had the language problem too because I bought my subscription with an active VPN. So my preconfigured language was french. Just open a support Ticket. They will change it.
I have opened one. They simply don’t reply. But should try again I suppose.
Well, that’s it. I’m trying Qobuz. :)
This did not work out. They don’t seem to allow certain e-mail alias providers and VPNs. While it’s sort of understandable that they want to block scraping, fake accounts and other ill willed actors, it’s also detrimental to user privacy. Or rather, it’s hampering to users that otherwise already live a privacy oriented digital life. I’m staying with Tidal for now. 🙏
Good luck. I have given up after trying to import my library. Hope it does better for you.
Never got that far. See my comment below.
I tried Qobuz for a while purely because of their anti AI stance, but the player just didn’t work very well on Linux. I’m stuck using Spotify for now but hopefully somebody else puts some effort into a Linux player
Did you try qbz? https://github.com/vicrodh/qbz. It works quite well, except Qobuz Connect (ability to control other Qobuz players) doesn’t work, and seems like it will never work.
Also, the Qobuz Windows app works quite well with Wine, but requires some tinkering. https://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iId=42813
I can’t remember exactly, it was months ago. I tried a couple things that straight up didn’t work for me (Debian Trixie). Ended up with Strawberry player and that worked but I just vastly preferred the functionality of Spotify. I’ll probably have another attempt next time I get AI tracks recommended to me
Qobuz with Strawberry is… not very good. I think qbz was released this year, so you probably didn’t try that. There’s a .deb file in GitHub for it, and it also comes in other forms, like Flatpak and AppImage.
What didn’t work well for you with the Qobuz player for Linux?
