How does the french-owned Qobuz perform against Apple Music? (feddit.kyiv.ua)

submitted 1 week ago by Sunshine@feddit.kyiv.ua to c/buyeuropean@feddit.uk

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I see my favourite artists on there but the selection seems more limited and I can only stream the songs of the albums I like. They also have lossless audio.

Does Qobuz pay the artists more?

I suppose I will switch over to create the increased demand and write letters to the artists to ask for more albums to be made available on the platform.

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[-] ReluctantZen@feddit.nl 6 points 1 week ago

I'm not sure about the pay split, but I've been buying from Qobuz for a while now and generally like the service. Do note that you need to download your purchases ASAP. Through no fault of Qobuz, some of my older purchases are no longer available for download due to publishers pulling it.

[-] OrlandoDoom@feddit.uk 2 points 6 days ago

Through no fault of Qobuz, some of my older purchases are no longer available for download due to publishers pulling it.

Can you download your purchases before this happens or is there some DRM or something?

[-] ReluctantZen@feddit.nl 3 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Yes, you can download them DRM free, so as long as you download them when you buy them there is no real issue

[-] OrlandoDoom@feddit.uk 1 points 3 days ago

That's pretty good, I'll look into it. I doubt I'll ever be able to really replace bandcamp but you never know.

[-] ElectroLisa 2 points 6 days ago

You get FLACs from Qobuz iirc

[-] ReluctantZen@feddit.nl 2 points 6 days ago

I believe WAVs, MP3s and a couple others too

[-] ElectroLisa 1 points 6 days ago

According to their website the lowest quality you get is a lossless CD format, so that's a 16-bit 44.1 kHz FLAC

[-] ReluctantZen@feddit.nl 1 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Yeah, but you can download those as MP3s as well should you want that.

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