On Monday, the company announced that free users globally will now be able to search and play any song they want or play a song shared by a friend or an artist they follow on social media.
I only used Tidal a while back during a free trial, so can’t comment too much. I think Tidal might have more wide spread functuonality adoption than Qoboz - but they do seem to be pushing out updates to meet feature parity.
Qoboz has been great to use though. I actually find I get a wider spectrum of recommendations than Spotify. Spotify seemed to type cast my current listening habits agressively, and it would take a while to break out of that loop each time.
Like a caveman, I just plug in and use my phone to control it!
At home I do use an amp thay supports direct play, there’s a few companies that support Qobuz in thay way - and self hosted options too. To make use of the fidelity.
I use Musify on Android. (From the F-Droid store) It pulls the music off of YouTube and works pretty well. Save playlists,download individual songs, it has recommendations but u didn’t know how they work.
Jokes aside, the only reason I use Spotify is for discovery and the vast catalog (primarily the JP music market).
And I havent seen Qobuz be mentioned in any capacity by japanese artists.
Ah this is an interesting point. I think Qoboz are active in expanding their libraries and they do take requests on site.
Do you have any JP recommendations - its not a region I’ve ever really listened to?
I’ve not seen anyone recommend an alternative like Qobuz in these “fuck spotify” discussions - I think it’s a good honest alternative?
Seen the recommendation plenty of times.
Is it better than TIDAL? I’m interested in switching to either of those, perhaps.
I only used Tidal a while back during a free trial, so can’t comment too much. I think Tidal might have more wide spread functuonality adoption than Qoboz - but they do seem to be pushing out updates to meet feature parity.
Qoboz has been great to use though. I actually find I get a wider spectrum of recommendations than Spotify. Spotify seemed to type cast my current listening habits agressively, and it would take a while to break out of that loop each time.
Cool, thank you!
Any experience with using it in a car system?
Like a caveman, I just plug in and use my phone to control it!
At home I do use an amp thay supports direct play, there’s a few companies that support Qobuz in thay way - and self hosted options too. To make use of the fidelity.
I use Musify on Android. (From the F-Droid store) It pulls the music off of YouTube and works pretty well. Save playlists,download individual songs, it has recommendations but u didn’t know how they work.
I was looking to try Qobuz, but they didn’t like my email domain, so skipped it.
I switched to Qobuz, it’s great!
I recommend <your jellyfin instance>.
Jokes aside, the only reason I use Spotify is for discovery and the vast catalog (primarily the JP music market).
And I havent seen Qobuz be mentioned in any capacity by japanese artists.
Ah this is an interesting point. I think Qoboz are active in expanding their libraries and they do take requests on site. Do you have any JP recommendations - its not a region I’ve ever really listened to?
Japanese are difficult to deal with.
It sure was a process to get them to release on Spotify. Before that they tended to stay on Apple Music.
Examples of artists I liked:
Tokyo Health Club - J-Rap but a bit more lo-fi
-> One of my favs: https://youtu.be/GSRfeUHZZN8
-> Honorable mention: https://youtu.be/ErLSUsqERm8
-> Just open any of their songs and listen ;)
-> Same here
-> https://youtu.be/twUFbqyul_M
-> https://youtu.be/WGgEFoI9MhE
Thank you! I’m going to have a listen through these this week - you may have just broadened my horizons!