Qobuz Feature Requests

[David.. Qobuz, Hi-Res Music Evangelist]

Great idea and sounds fun.

We appreciate any suggestions, as always, and am sure there will be some real winners. However, please know that we have a very long list of changes and improvements on our roadmap that are scheduled out for months. Some of you may have noticed many Qobuz improvements already and more are on the way. The engineering team is always running full-out and they are about as regimented of a team as you'll likely ever see. 
Personally, I'm looking forward to seeing suggestions that aren't already on the roadmap.

 

Thanks for the post.

 

 

 

[David.. Qobuz, Hi-Res Music Evangelist]

If I may, the upgrade to Sonos to 24 bit is a huge upgrade to the majority of Sonos users who are only streaming mp3. If you have an audiophile digital set up or system, you will most likely go for a streamer with full Hi Res capabilities. This move wasn't meant to challenge the best systems out there or to take audiophiles to their audio nirvana. It was meant to help market better sound to Sonos fans and users to take a few steps forward.

 

[David.. Qobuz, Hi-Res Music Evangelist]

I made a Sonos playlist w 24/16 to 24/48 to show off how good a Sonos system can sound. https://open.qobuz.com/playlist/5874906

 

[David.. Qobuz, Hi-Res Music Evangelist]

1 hour ago, vsrrr said:

Haha yes, it is absolutely absurd that Qobuz hasn't implemented it's own 'connect' feature yet. How can something so fundamental be delayed for years??

I got tired of the poor user experience and switched to Tidal for this reason.

The Qobuz library is great though, so I do hope they sort out their 'connect' problems soon!

 

By all means. If that's the most important feature to you, and you can only have one, switch. We've been working on Connect for a good while and are making good progress. I suppose from the outside looking in, it may seem like a switch, but there's lots of engineering involved. While we have great engineering team, it's a fraction of Apple, Amazon or Tidal (Samsung). We are the only independent, self-funding major streaming service in existence without the resources of a multi-billion dollar conglomerate, so we'll typically be slower implementing the latest new feature.

[David.. Qobuz, Hi-Res Music Evangelist]

3 hours ago, vsrrr said:

 

Lol - defensive.

 

News flash, outside the uber-audiophile segment, most people will only subscribe to one music streaming service.

 

I'm quite familiar with the engineering workload required to build something like this. I understand it's a significant lift. 

 

However, thinking strategically, UX and ease of use are just as important as price, library, and even Qobuz's main differentiator - high-res. 

 

So, failing to implement something like Connect for years is nothing short of a major strategic error that limits your addressable market. I wouldn't congratulate myself for being a self-funding business if that means I'm selling a half-baked product for years. 

 

 

 I'm sorry you took my statements as defensive. I was stating facts and trying to give you a little inside information. How would anyone outside the company speculate initial operating capital, resources and the real costs? Qobuz was a very small company purchased in 2015, streaming jazz and classical into a few European countries. It has since been and is run very efficiently. We're doing great now, but honestly, we're lucky to be here through the very early years. Priorities have got to be in order to survive in the streaming business and the company has made outstanding decisions that made this possible. We launched in the US in 2018 on a shoestring budget and have since opened in 26 countries, all requiring engineering time and capital. We've helped hundreds of companies implement Qobuz into their platforms as well as expanding our own requirements. Our engineers were and are running full out to keep up with this demand and did not have entire other teams to develop another engineering intensive layer. This same team has taken on this task now. We've not ignored it for years. We had to wait until we had the resources. Make sense?