Thought I’d give Qobuz a try just now, and was very disappointed and frustrated with the experience. I bought two albums, one of them a special edition with something like 30+ tracks on it. If you don’t use their downloader (which didn’t work on Linux, and not on Mrs. Hedge’s Windows computer either) you have to download the album tracks one by one, which is cumbersome and a pain. Ok, yes, I know, boo hoo, but Bandcamp doesn’t make you do this! In terms of personal preference after bandcamp comes 7digital, which isn’t great either, and then Qobuz which I will only ever buy from if I can’t find an album anywhere else.
Qobuz is good for streaming hi-res and… that’s it.
I was pleasantly surprised by their service at first but it is subpar now… Album and tracks disappearing, Qobuz no longer working correctly on Yamaha HiFi, … I’m quite disappointed.
Did something change? Last time I bought an album on Qobuz i could download the whole thing in a single zip file. This was quite a while ago though
Yeah, I remembered that, as well. I have an HD album that I bought a while ago and downloaded as a zip file. I looked again just now and it only gives you the ability to download file by file unless you use their client. That’s remarkably shitty.
Qobuz is unfortunately the only HiFi service worth anything ever since Tidal went with the MQA sham.
But yeah, purchasing music is overly complicated by the use of 2 distinct applications one to stream, the other to buy.
Not to mention that I’m outright insulted by how little care they put into organizing their library so that duplicate artist names don’t result in a single chimera artist where you need to sift through the non-related artist stuff yourself.
What they did to VAST is a damn shame… Tried reporting it multiple times now via email and support tickets, but those assholes don’t care.
