Musicophile Posted August 28, 2018 Share Posted August 28, 2018 On 8/25/2018 at 10:58 PM, shadowlight said: Question for the folks who have being using Qobuz for awhile. Can you let me know how I can configure Qobuz to continue playing similar songs/artist once the last song in a playlist has ended. Looking for something similar to what Spotify does when playlist ends or what Deezer does with Flow. I use the Spotify functionality to discover new music and I cannot seem to find how to do that under Qobuz. I don’t think they have that functionality yet. David.. Qobuz, Hi-Res Music Evangelist 1 Check out my blog at musicophilesblog.com - From Keith Jarrett to Johannes Brahms Link to comment
Musicophile Posted October 11, 2018 Share Posted October 11, 2018 For all of you using the desktop client, I strongly suggest moving to Audirvana. Better sound and a remote app! Don Blas De Lezo 1 Check out my blog at musicophilesblog.com - From Keith Jarrett to Johannes Brahms Link to comment
Popular Post Musicophile Posted October 30, 2018 Popular Post Share Posted October 30, 2018 7 hours ago, mourip said: Sounds like a great idea for a dedicated thread here. We could share Qobuz playlists that we find or create or even work on them collaboratively? On that topic, I wish that there was an easy way to create a playlist in one click when one finds a performer, group, or orchestra that one really likes. For example I do a search on "Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra", get 14 hits, and want to make a new playlist with all 14 albums. Currently you need to add them one by one which is laborious for a prolific search result... That was my intention creating this thread, would love for others to contribute: rando, left channel and mourip 2 1 Check out my blog at musicophilesblog.com - From Keith Jarrett to Johannes Brahms Link to comment
Musicophile Posted November 2, 2018 Share Posted November 2, 2018 On 11/1/2018 at 3:10 PM, Martin H said: Yes- sorry I am familiar with that help area. But I was thinking more of a place where the Qobuz community could talk and share thoughts and recommendations of the music/artists. So more focused upon the content and helping each other explore it. The uservoice is a good place to flag issues and problems. Just a thought really. Not critical but maybe enhance the experience a little further. Good idea. There are quite a number of music forums already out there, but having something with some form of a direct link to Qobuz (or better even, integrated with) would be great. This would be a spot on fit with the positioning around the music lover that Qobuz focused on. Don Blas De Lezo 1 Check out my blog at musicophilesblog.com - From Keith Jarrett to Johannes Brahms Link to comment
Musicophile Posted November 8, 2018 Share Posted November 8, 2018 18 hours ago, rodrigaj said: @austinpop I especially like the choice of the Brandenburgs in your assessment. +1. https://musicophilesblog.com/2016/02/11/my-favorite-version-of-the-brandenburg-concertos/ Check out my blog at musicophilesblog.com - From Keith Jarrett to Johannes Brahms Link to comment
Musicophile Posted November 12, 2018 Share Posted November 12, 2018 14 hours ago, eatapc said: I'm still confused. I've tried downloading 24/96 content at the native resolution, but the "import" comes in at CD quality. I've yet to get anything above CD quality, whether streaming or playing back from my downloads. Have you tried changing the import quality in the preferences? Check out my blog at musicophilesblog.com - From Keith Jarrett to Johannes Brahms Link to comment
Musicophile Posted November 30, 2018 Share Posted November 30, 2018 @David Craff One feature for the iOS app would be a life changer for me: can the app remember genre selections? Every time I launch I have to select "classical and jazz" manually. I guess we all have our preferred genres, so why this hassle? Check out my blog at musicophilesblog.com - From Keith Jarrett to Johannes Brahms Link to comment
Musicophile Posted November 30, 2018 Share Posted November 30, 2018 5 hours ago, David Craff said: Unfortunately, I do not have a date to provide, but you will not wait another year. Just a little remark for everyone. Qobuz does not have the striking power of a Spotify, Tidal, Roon or other. When one has 300 developers to fix, improve applications. At Qobuz we have to say that we only have 1% of this amount of developers. It is legitimate for a customer, especially for a paid service, to be demanding. Just know, without any reproach on our part, that we are doing our best with the resources we have. We are listening to you, we are music lovers. Regards I guess the problem was the announcment that was released to early. It's always painful to overpromise and underdeliver. But the situation is understandable (that said, I'm happy I live in Europe...) Check out my blog at musicophilesblog.com - From Keith Jarrett to Johannes Brahms Link to comment
Musicophile Posted November 30, 2018 Share Posted November 30, 2018 2 hours ago, David Craff said: It's available in setting > interface > Rember my genre selection Great! Would have never found it otherwise. Check out my blog at musicophilesblog.com - From Keith Jarrett to Johannes Brahms Link to comment
Musicophile Posted December 1, 2018 Share Posted December 1, 2018 1 hour ago, Peter Hyatt said: You wouldnt have looked at the 7 options under “settings”? It is user friendly. I’m not tech savvy and this wasn’t challenging. Not directed to the poster but an observation here and elsewhere: Qobuz seems to get quite a bit of criticism with the theme of instant gratification born of entitlement. Perhaps it’s generational/cultural. I’m so grateful to have an alternative to Tidal with such quality! I did look there in the early days of the app but this option must have been added more recently. The app has seen continuous improvements over time. It used to be pretty buggy but is quite stable now. The only remaining issue is that the downloading for offline use that sometimes stalls Check out my blog at musicophilesblog.com - From Keith Jarrett to Johannes Brahms Link to comment
Musicophile Posted December 1, 2018 Share Posted December 1, 2018 4 hours ago, austinpop said: I love Qobuz, but the new app (MacOS 5.0.0-b002 for me) is not intuitive for this setting. I looked in vain for anything called "Settings". Ultimately I found it by clicking on: nondescript grey face icon on the top right Then click on "Interface" Scroll down to last setting "Saving > Save the selected genres for the homepage" Would it kill them to just have a Settings menu on the home page of the app? My original question and the answer were referring to the iOS app. Check out my blog at musicophilesblog.com - From Keith Jarrett to Johannes Brahms Link to comment
Musicophile Posted December 8, 2018 Share Posted December 8, 2018 Guys, again, whenever I read “Qobuz app” here I cringe inside. If you use Qobuz, get Audirvana. Check out my blog at musicophilesblog.com - From Keith Jarrett to Johannes Brahms Link to comment
Musicophile Posted December 8, 2018 Share Posted December 8, 2018 3 hours ago, David Craff said: I'm curious to know why Audirvana and not the Qobuz application. If you can tell me more, we could improve the Qobuz application. The sound quality is way better and you have an iOS remote. Check out my blog at musicophilesblog.com - From Keith Jarrett to Johannes Brahms Link to comment
Musicophile Posted December 9, 2018 Share Posted December 9, 2018 6 hours ago, TAV said: I use both Roon & Audirvana; if anything my impression is that Roon sounds better by a smidge. I also prefer the UI in Roon by a mile. The only reason I'm using Audirvana is because the DLNA/UpnP support in Beta Qobuz IOS/MacOsx apps doesn't work. I'm also not sold in the pay for use Audirvana remote that gets mediocre usability reviews. YMMV. If Roon is for you I can understand that. The added value it provides just isn’t for me so I cannot comment on SQ. I was comparing A+ to the many mentions here of using Qobuz‘ own desktop app. Same goes for A+ remote app. It’s far from perfect, hasn’t seen a proper update foe ages (the developer is focusing on other stuff instead), but overall does the job, especially compared to the standalone Qobuz app which doesn’t come with any form of remote. Plus it allows me to seemlessly switch between files in my one library and Qobuz. Jud 1 Check out my blog at musicophilesblog.com - From Keith Jarrett to Johannes Brahms Link to comment
Musicophile Posted December 25, 2018 Share Posted December 25, 2018 7 hours ago, goon525 said: Is this for random listening? I’ve never chosen a genre - I choose what I want to listen to, and Qobuz doesn’t need to know its genre to find it. No it is for content discovery on the platform. As a blogger I regularly check out the new releases. Or check out Qobuz playlists. Check out my blog at musicophilesblog.com - From Keith Jarrett to Johannes Brahms Link to comment
Musicophile Posted January 4, 2019 Share Posted January 4, 2019 On 1/2/2019 at 10:35 PM, Taz777 said: Thanks to all those who replied to my question earlier comparing Qobuz with Tidal. One more question if I may: how does offline mode work with Qobuz? It appears to be cache related. One massive disadvantage I have with Tidal is that lack of offline mode on the desktop app and on (most) DAPs. I've held off buying a DAP due to this lack of offline mode provided natively within the player. Would Qobuz provide a viable offline mode so I could listen to my playlists when I have no Internet connection (e.g. when I'm on a plane)? Offline mode works well for my iOS devices. You can chose to download as much as your memory allows at any resolution from MP3 to 24/192. My Dragonfly confirms that I’m getting 24/96 out of the IPhone with the lightning adapter. Check out my blog at musicophilesblog.com - From Keith Jarrett to Johannes Brahms Link to comment
Musicophile Posted February 2, 2019 Share Posted February 2, 2019 20 minutes ago, firedog said: It probably means they don't yet have US streaming licenses for those tracks. MDG doesn’t stream on Qobuz France either. I think similar to Hyperion they have a general no streaming policy. Check out my blog at musicophilesblog.com - From Keith Jarrett to Johannes Brahms Link to comment
Popular Post Musicophile Posted February 11, 2019 Popular Post Share Posted February 11, 2019 6 hours ago, David Craff said: Thanks for this feedback. 1. I'll look at this, I'm agree about the navigation for new releases. 2. I'll check what we can do for this booklet view. We need to find a solution for all screen size. The new releases issue really is annoying even for me as a French subscriber. There is no obvious way to get all new releases, just “La Grande Sélection Qobuz”. Having a full exhaustive listing of all new releases not just the ones selected by Qobuz would be a truly great feature. phosphorein and rickca 2 Check out my blog at musicophilesblog.com - From Keith Jarrett to Johannes Brahms Link to comment
Popular Post Musicophile Posted February 14, 2019 Popular Post Share Posted February 14, 2019 6 hours ago, bobbmd said: Also album choices going fro Qobuz desktop app to A+3 and then to ROON are all different and A+3 doesn’t indicate which albums are HiRes but this is a minor inconvenience The developer of A+ has already announced that the next upgrade of A+ (Expected to launch soon) will have improved labeling of Hires albums greyscale, phosphorein and Peter Hyatt 2 1 Check out my blog at musicophilesblog.com - From Keith Jarrett to Johannes Brahms Link to comment
Musicophile Posted February 18, 2019 Share Posted February 18, 2019 8 hours ago, Jud said: On the iOS app, in "News" I'm offered the chance to win tickets to the 2015 and 2017 Gramophone Awards celebrations. Cool. Including time travel? Jud 1 Check out my blog at musicophilesblog.com - From Keith Jarrett to Johannes Brahms Link to comment
Musicophile Posted February 22, 2019 Share Posted February 22, 2019 7 hours ago, David Craff said: No documentation yet about search engine. This hashtag filters are being tested and will arrive with the redesign of the search engine in the desktop. I can't share them with you knowing that they change regularly. #multichannel was only made to meet a need and can be changed later David, Please use your influence on this topic to tell Qobuz how much this matters. I really love the service, and have used it for years now, but the search function and, closely linked, the meta tagging of the stuff on offer, could be one of their biggest differentiation factors in the market, especially for classical, but also e.g. differentiating the different remasters of an album. After all, they are targeting classical music lovers and audiophiles, where those things just matter. And at this point, search is still pretty much a mess. If Furthermore, as already flagged previously, I have yet to find an exhaustive list of all new releases, not just the "selection" Qobuz considers relevant. This is still what I consider Qobuz biggest weakness, or maybe not a weakness, but clearly a lack of positive differentiation. Jud 1 Check out my blog at musicophilesblog.com - From Keith Jarrett to Johannes Brahms Link to comment
Musicophile Posted February 23, 2019 Share Posted February 23, 2019 3 hours ago, BrokeLinuxPhile said: I'm not so sure that this falls on Qobuz, and more on the label supplying the files. The labels are the ones committing fraud if they aren't providing product as labelled to a distributor. If someone sold fake budweiser to your liquor store, it's not the liquor store's fault. Qobuz will be at fault here, IMO, if they don't refund money after you complain of mislabelled downloads. If they refund the your money, but leave the album available mislabelled for others to be duped, that's when they have a problem on their hands. What is the policy? If I buy a mislabelled album do i get my money back? Whenever I flagged an upsampled album I just purchased was able to choose another one for free, so Qobuz customer service is doing fine. I’ve only had a handful of cases, some true upsampling, some just mislabeled, but I oäalso only buy classical and Jazz, and Most of the upsampled cases seem to concern classic rock remasters. I’d presume sure you could get your money back as well if you prefer. Check out my blog at musicophilesblog.com - From Keith Jarrett to Johannes Brahms Link to comment
Musicophile Posted February 23, 2019 Share Posted February 23, 2019 2 hours ago, church_mouse said: @Musicophile I am curious if you noted whether Qobuz stopped selling the upsampled album after you had flagged up the error? For some I checked and they are now ok. Check out my blog at musicophilesblog.com - From Keith Jarrett to Johannes Brahms Link to comment
Popular Post Musicophile Posted February 25, 2019 Popular Post Share Posted February 25, 2019 1 hour ago, David Craff said: Hi, Thanks for this feedback. I'm in charge of the search engine and know that there is lot's of thing to improve. The best way to help me, if you want, is to explain me your issue. You can answer this question to do that : - Which platform did you use to search on Qobuz? (Desktop, Android, iOS, Sonos...) - What type of product are you looking for? (Release, artiste, track...) - What are you looking for? (ex: 3rd movement of Sonata of Piano no. 14 of Beethoven) - What did you enter? - Did you find what you were looking for and explain? * As I explain before I have created some hashtags to test the search engine. Some of them can answer you needs, but stay as beta and can be change in the future. They only work for release, not for artists, tracks, playlists... Here they are, but don't forget that they may disappear, change or not work properly at any time. - #HiRes to filter only Hi-Res file, but this one is not set for streaming only (for the moment) - #MutilChannel to filter release in 5.1 - #NewRelease to filter only new product < 1 month - #ComposerOnly to filter the query to composer only - #Award to filter release with award (Qobuz award or Press Award) If you have idea for #hashtag, tell me. Regards I typically access Qobuz via Audirvana or the iOS apps, sometimes the desktop app. A typical search case would be “find all available versions of Shostakovich piano quintet“, and then filter e.g. only highres, or exclude versions not available for streaming. This would however require tagging and grouping of the individual oeuvre, and I’m also not sure how Qobuz handles for examples the different European transcriptions of Shostakovich (Spelled Chosta in French). Another typical use case would be “find all new releases of Chandos in the last 3 months“. And finally, when searching e.g. for Kind Of Blue, you get seven different album versions. How do I easily understand which one is which. I understand many of these require extensive manual tagging, but this would really be useful for the end user. Peter Hyatt and austinpop 2 Check out my blog at musicophilesblog.com - From Keith Jarrett to Johannes Brahms Link to comment
Musicophile Posted March 19, 2019 Share Posted March 19, 2019 Is it just me or is anybody else having issues with the offline download functionality of the iOS app since the latest update? Check out my blog at musicophilesblog.com - From Keith Jarrett to Johannes Brahms Link to comment
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