SunWarrior
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How is quboz vs tidal. Is the us beta buggy? How do I get one? Thanks
I've been overlapping on both Tidal and Qobuz, on a trial for the latter.
Mainly listening through the Aurender, which makes it absurdly simply to go back and forth between both services (as well as my own library), say the same album both ways.
There's something about the Qobuz sound -- even on 44/16 music files -- that's richer to my ears than from Tidal. Not buggy at all.
Will likely drop Tidal after Qobuz gets ensconced in the U.S. Except... the two company's offerings aren't as fully equal as initially appeared.
Let me describe by artists, and how many of their albums are available.
For example, Maddy Prior -- solo albums, not as part of Steeleye Span -- has 29 albums on Tidal, but only 2 albums on on Qobuz.
In my limited but intensive searching recently on both services, I've found that for folk/roots type of music, Tidal tends to have more than Qobuz in general, not just for Ms. Prior.
That seems to be true just as Qobuz clearly has much more classical than Tidal.
And for me, those are both genres of music, among others, that I listen to.
But Qobuz, likely because it's based in Europe, has more of the ECM catalog, with more high-rez, than does Tidal.
Quick last note, relative to music discovery -- because isn't that one of the joys of a good streaming service -- is a search I did yesterday on Qobuz.
My search term was simply "ecm" (case mattered), and up came over 1700 albums all from the glorious ECM label.
But in no real order, perhaps by release date, but not absolutely.
But that's great, the random grid of albums encouraging me to try this and try that.
Of course, this is meaningful for me only since I've enjoyed many artists who've recorded for that label over the years, and there are many more I've not heard or not heard in full.
Probably more than you asked, but I'm kinda jazzed by Qobuz recently.
Dave, who says it's an interesting visual experience viewing row upon row of ECM album covers when you consider how there's a similar design and style to the vast majority