[Thomasr]

Curious to know which streaming services are the favourites around here.

 

[pattont]

I pay for Spotify Premium, I get Apple Music through Verizon for free, and I recently added Qobuz to try. I'm using Soundiiz to sync playlists and songs from Spotify to the other two so I can A/B test. I think Qobuz sounds better the other 2 even on their CD quality tracks, but not sure I want to keep another subscription for that small difference. Qobuz's discovery and recommendations so far have been terrible, so it will likely get cancelled in the next couple of months.

Just my $.02

 

[Thomasr]

I've had Spotify subscription forever, but recently added Deezer to try their HQ setting. Now I'm conflicted as to which to cancel and which to keep. The Deezer app has a few shortcomings compared to Spotify IMO, and since I listen primarily via Bluetooth I'm not sure the the HQ sound is giving me much.

 

[Leonarfd]

Spotify do get lots of crap, its not as bad people makes it to be. Still favourite I have tried has been Tidal. When truly testing gear out, I go for bought CDs and files.

 

[Leonarfd]

Might be of interest.

 

[Thomasr]

Might be of interest.

These facts conflict with my carefully constructed reality.

 

[Thomasr]

Bump. I'm still interested in seeing who else is part of the Deezer clan.

 

[sajesak]

Might be of interest in IPTV.

I released a single a couple of weeks ago and was surprised, not to say astonished, when I noticed how few streamings I had from the US compared to other world regions, the vast majority of the North American listeners having accessed the song via youtube. I was curious enough to ask my US friends how they had listened to my song: not ONE was a subscriber of Spotify, Amazon music, Apple music, Qobuz, Tidal… NADA. All youtube. So, just put of curiosity: if you’re from the US: do you or do you not use one of these streaming services? If not, why?

 

[XeNoNF50]

I pay for Spotify Premium, I get Apple Music through Verizon for free, and I recently added Qobuz to try. I'm using Soundiiz to sync playlists and songs from Spotify to the other two so I can A/B test. I think Qobuz sounds better the other 2 even on their CD quality tracks, but not sure I want to keep another subscription for that small difference. Qobuz's discovery and recommendations so far have been terrible, so it will likely get cancelled in the next couple of months.

Just my $.02

Add $15 to your $.02 for Roon and you've got your front end for Qobuz

 

[vcoheda]

Qobuz's discovery and recommendations so far have been terrible, so it will likely get cancelled in the next couple of months.

agree. terrible.

i had a qobuz subscription for a long time but often found myself listening to music i owned and rarely found new artists/music, so i cancelled. i was happy with the service, the app, the music selection and quality so could see myself re-subscribing at some point.

 

[maerchenmann]

Spotify would actually be completely sufficient for me, I don't notice any relevant differences in the audio quality compared to Qobuz, for example, but unfortunately Spotify doesn't offer me the option of dividing my music library by genre, which is why I also use Qobuz.

 

[Thomasr]

I recently cancelled Spotify premium, mainly to rationalize my monthly expenses, so I'm solely on Deezer at this point.

 

[lifeson]

As far as streaming all I can compare is Amazon HD with Quobuz/Roon and after going from the former to the latter I noticed a definite improvement - and I'm pretty sure its not confirmation bias because I bored my kids and my wife with it in blind testing and they unanimously agreed (mid fi gear).

 

[Thomasr]

So Deezer just added a "Discovery 2024" tile to my home page, containing a playlist of songs/artists that I should check out. I assume this is unique to each subscriber based on their previous listening habits.

I'm about 10-15 songs in at this point and I have a couple observations:

1. SOLID! There's a few stinkers but there's all kinds of cool stuff I've never heard before that's got my toes tapping.
2. If this thing is indeed based on my listening history then I clearly have some pretty eclectic tastes - Deezer is throwing a buffet of sounds at me here. I'm reminded of something I saw in The Onion once: https://www.theonion.com/desperate-pandora-employees-scrambling-to-find-song-are-1819571692

 

[Lindholdt]

Tidal and Bandcamp for me, as these pay the most to the artists