At this point Qobuz is unusable because the sound cuts out so much. I’ve tried changing Sonosnet to all the channels but it doesn’t make a difference. I have one speaker wired in the other room. I have a meshed WiFi network (3 APs) using channels 1, 6 and 11. This has NEVER happened with Pandora, Apple Music, Tidal or my streaming CDs via Subsonic on any of my speakers in 4 years so I’m sure it’s related to Qobuz. It happens consistently on any Qobuz album I play. During Qobuz playback sound will stop on the left speaker, then comeback, and sometimes continue to cut out on one or both speakers. I have a stereo pair of Play Fives, and a sub, connected via WiFi in my living room.
I have never had any issues like this over 4 years with Pandora, Apple, Tidal or Subsonic.
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I can’t imagine how.I just started the Qobuz free trial and have noticed that songs are cutting in and out sporadically during playback. They intend to appeal to mass market after they finish audiophile. Tidal (and Roon?) is probably doomed if Apple/Spotify go lossless, but I’m not sure in its current state Qobuz could even last that long. But the problem is the market for that is so miniscule that even the small audiophile market isn’t entirely into it, that without also having the catalog depth to back it up, ti comes off looking shabby. I fear they’re wisely afraid of Apple/Spotify entering the HiFi lossless market so they’re trying to differentiate themselves by focusing on HiRes. They only bar they needed to cross was “be better than Tidal”…and they managed to be significantly worse. I want them to succeed because I want competition in the HiFi space…but a rough start like that makes it a really hard sell. So given that, the HiFi or lossy plans, Qobuz, annually is a little cheaper, has a far worse app, no recommendations of their own, and a massively smaller catalogue, where nearly everything I find on it is also on Tidal anyway. It’s advantageous if you’re doing a lot of DSP and room correction, but otherwise, isn’t worth it to me - and as long as it’s only a subset of what I listen to, offers minimal benefit. With good hardware, it really is good enough. I jumped into SACD and got burned, I jumped into HDTracks’ launch, and at this point find that one out of five albums sounds better than redbook to me.
I’ve been on that ship too many times to be fooled easily.
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I do like some of their playlists - it’s hard to get some of those genres through Tidal or Roon…but they don’t actually update them. Typically with more from the same artist also available on Tidal than Qobuz. I renewed just to try it with Roon + Tidal + Qobuz…so far, there’s a lot less to pick from than Tidal, and on the occasions where Roon finds Qobuz content, if I check it, it’s also on Tidal. Ultimately, Qobuz probably had/has a lot of potential, but they did squander a lot of that with a really awful launch. Which is telling since I wasn’t very fond of Tidal compared to Deezer HiFi, finding their catalog comparatively lacking (it’s caught up considerably, however, but is still a bit behind.) Then by the end of month 2 I went back to Tidal. Studio Premier costs either 149.99 when billed yearly (breaking down to 12.49 per month) or 14.99 billed monthly. I was super hyped and dropped Tidal the moment the beta opened up. Qobuz offers two streaming plans: Studio Premier and Studio Sublime. Tidal…), and their catalog is a vacant wasteland.
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What is download The permanent purchase of albums or tracks in order to get the. Instead, most of the problems with playlists they acknowledged they knew about still exist, music discovery within their app doesn’t exist (their support just tells you to use Roon - which brought me here! But it still doesn’t give me a reason to use Qobuz vs. You can cancel your subscription at any time, even during the trial period. Worse, back in Feb they made it sound like they were rapidly tooling up into release mode, so I expected within a few weeks it would become a fleshed out product. I’m not sure how they had such a hard time translating their European product to the US, but they’ve been delaying for years, created some buzz, but opened the public beta (arguably a year too late) only for it to look like a wholly incomplete prototype product - which I was fine with if the beta meant free use to help improve the product, but instead they’re charging as much as every other complete streaming service. It’s a shame, because Qobuz has a lot of potential, but I fear they botched their launch catastrophically and it’s going to leave some bad impressions.
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