qobuz Qobuz USA launching soon!

[BrokeLinuxPhile]

Been lurking for  while, finally signed up here.   Have had my Qobuz usa acct for a week now.

 

So far so good, but wrinkles just need ironing out.  I am an exclusive linux user and that's where I'm seeing the only downsides to Qobuz so far over Tidal.  No app, which is fine by me, used to that with Tidal and everything else.  But haven't got firefox or chrome to behave right with the web player yet.  I set the output to hi-res (have studio acct), select hi-res track and play.  Bottom of screen shows the correct hi res format detected...but if you poke around in the /proc/asound directory to see what ALSA is actually doing....it's hard set at 44100 and won't budge no matter how I try to get around it.

 

Runs great through LMS/squeezelite on linux though with one huge exception: pause doesn't work.  You pause/hit play and track starts over at beginning, local files and tidal don't that.  Don't know who to blame for that one yet, it could be Qobuz, could be LMS, could be the LMS plugin.  Been lazy and haven't debugged it yet. 

 

Way better for me than Tidal.  Sound quality like everyone keeps saying is superior, really hear it with tracks mixed heavy in reverb or echo.  I'm doing way less fiddling with resampling/filters/etc to get the sound the way i like it. 

 

I'm more of a rock/prog/metal listener....good catalogs there in case anyone is wondering.  Finding a LOT of 96khz+ content and it sounds really good.  The tidal metal streams are just nowhere near as good.

[BrokeLinuxPhile]

18 hours ago, left channel said:

@BrokeLinuxPhile welcome! I agree, sounds great. That LMS pause problem happens on Windows too, and is worth asking about in the Qobuz plugin thread over on the slimdevices forum. And I don't mean to knock the tech chops of the folks here, but you'd probably get more responses on the ALSA issue on slimdevices too. But the web player not working in Linux, that's worth asking the Qobuz reps about in the official Official Qobuz Issues thread on this forum. I'll be interested to see if they're willing to support Linux. Glad to hear from another Qobuz fan! 

 

 

Volumio works completely as expected, but i'm trying to get away from the concept of paying for a service just to be able to access another paid service.  Love the fact you can download the entire source code and tweak away, but hate that I have to pay a few bucks  a month just to access Tidal or Qobuz. 

 

LMS has the same functionality, sound quality between two open to debate and i can get streaming access for free.  I'll take a bug or two if it's free to stream from already paid for services, not a big deal for me. 

 

14 hours ago, Jud said:

 

 

Whoops, sorry, I see you were talking about LMS/squeezelite on Linux.  I'm using the web player, following the directions here: https://nuvola.tiliado.eu/app/qobuz/ubuntu/  Pause works fine in that setup.

 

Pause/seek are only annoying to me if I'm trying to learn a piece of music on guitar, otherwise I listen all the way through a track.  Using Qobuz only for listening right now, so going to stick w/ LMS for the time being. 

 

Seen mentions from Qobuz directly way, way back about coming out with official linux support "soon" but we never saw an offical app release from them.  But that's pretty much par for the course for direct linux support on any service out there.  Been on linux for over a decade so I'm used to the neglect.

 

All things considered, i'm not going to need much more convincing to ditch Tidal.  Sound quality trumps all and Qobuz wins.