Is there a way to track the total number of albums and tracks on Qobuz available for streaming in the USA? I want to see if they're making any progress in expanding the North American catalog.
There is no way to "track" the number of albums/tracks for any of the streaming services. We only know the information they announce in press releases.
I've noticed improvements in classical (90% of my listening). Generally gaps in the Qobuz catalog are related to smaller independent record labels that they haven't signed up yet. If you notice that albums you find missing are from particular labels, then that is the likely reason. It's a slow process (negotiating contracts with each label) and it may take some time before Qobuz will become satisfactory for you.
Having spent several months manually converting my TIDAL playlists to Qobuz, I've found that Qobuz lacks around 20-25% of my TIDAL songs. I listen mainly to smooth jazz and the TIDAL catalogue is superb for this genre. However, frustratingly, many of those smooth jazz tracks are in 24-bit Hi-Res in Qobuz and only in 16-bit CD-quality in TIDAL.
TIDAL's search and song recommendations are a universe ahead of Qobuz.
I'm running both in parallel this year and often use TIDAL to find new music and then try to locate the same song in Qobuz.
I had Tidal for about 3 years and Qobuz for over a year. I found it goes both ways as far the library goes, some things in Tidal not in Qobuz and vice versa. I consistently liked Qobuz better for SQ. I like the fact that I don’t need a MQA DAC to get the best sound from Qobuz.
Last fall they said they were adding about 10,000 albums a day, and at that time I noticed some jazz, rock, and folk artists' Qobuz catalogs grow from just a few albums to about a dozen each, which was good progress but none were complete. I've been tracking a couple of interesting (to me) edge cases, in European Jazz and Canadian folk/rock, and have asked for an update on another forum where they maintain a two semiofficial threads: https://audiophilestyle.com/forums/...thread/page/118/?tab=comments#comment-1060159
I won’t complain about the catalogs, you can’t have it all, but....
how difficult is it to fix the right image to a track/album?
I like to listen to opera for example La Boheme, comes in a lot of versions and recordings.
When I start one, with the first track, it always goes wrong with the second track, often goes to the second cd somewhere in the middle.
This happens more than it doesn’t.
Am I the only one having this?
I won’t complain about the catalogs, you can’t have it all, but....
how difficult is it to fix the right image to a track/album?
I like to listen to opera for example La Boheme, comes in a lot of versions and recordings.
When I start one, with the first track, it always goes wrong with the second track, often goes to the second cd somewhere in the middle.
This happens more than it doesn’t.
Am I the only one having this?
Last fall they said they were adding about 10,000 albums a day, and at that time I noticed some jazz, rock, and folk artists' Qobuz catalogs grow from just a few albums to about a dozen each, which was good progress but none were complete. I've been tracking a couple of interesting (to me) edge cases, in European Jazz and Canadian folk/rock, and have asked for an update on another forum where they maintain a two semiofficial threads: https://audiophilestyle.com/forums/...thread/page/118/?tab=comments#comment-1060159
Qobuz is so frustrating! I prefer the sound quality over TIDAL and I've found a fair few Hi-Res tracks. However, the catalogue for my musical tastes is still somewhat limited compared to TIDAL.
But, the thing that really irks me greatly about Qobuz is that there's no easy way to discover new music based on the currently playing track (and my music preference). Qobuz also doesn't appear to recommend any new music to me, based on the songs I most frequently listen to.
TIDAL has the My Mix feature and the Track Radio feature. I find these invaluable for discovering new music. I'm currently just using TIDAL to discover new music and then locating the new songs in Qobuz. It's an expensive way of doing things as I have to keep two subscriptions active.
Has anyone found a way to emulate the My Mix and Track Radio features of TIDAL in Qobuz?
Qobuz is so frustrating! I prefer the sound quality over TIDAL and I've found a fair few Hi-Res tracks. However, the catalogue for my musical tastes is still somewhat limited compared to TIDAL.
But, the thing that really irks me greatly about Qobuz is that there's no easy way to discover new music based on the currently playing track (and my music preference). Qobuz also doesn't appear to recommend any new music to me, based on the songs I most frequently listen to.
TIDAL has the My Mix feature and the Track Radio feature. I find these invaluable for discovering new music. I'm currently just using TIDAL to discover new music and then locating the new songs in Qobuz. It's an expensive way of doing things as I have to keep two subscriptions active.
Has anyone found a way to emulate the My Mix and Track Radio features of TIDAL in Qobuz?
I agree. At the end of this year I have to ditch one purely on cost grounds. I have now found a roundabout way of finding more of my kind of music in Qobuz by searching for public playlists. My music preference is Smooth Jazz so a search for this term in Qobuz produces many playlists created by other users of Qobuz and then made public. It’s an okay method to use for now until Qobuz produces a UI that is more modern and has better music discovery features.
I agree. At the end of this year I have to ditch one purely on cost grounds. I have now found a roundabout way of finding more of my kind of music in Qobuz by searching for public playlists. My music preference is Smooth Jazz so a search for this term in Qobuz produces many playlists created by other users of Qobuz and then made public. It’s an okay method to use for now until Qobuz produces a UI that is more modern and has better music discovery features.
I forgot to mention that recently I subscribed to a yearly sub with Tidal for $100/year for the first year, then $120/year from then on. So it works out to $10/month for Tidal's mostly full library for my tastes. I just have to learn to ignore all the Rap/Hip Hop schiit being pushed so much.
Qobuz is so frustrating! I prefer the sound quality over TIDAL and I've found a fair few Hi-Res tracks. However, the catalogue for my musical tastes is still somewhat limited compared to TIDAL.
But, the thing that really irks me greatly about Qobuz is that there's no easy way to discover new music based on the currently playing track (and my music preference). Qobuz also doesn't appear to recommend any new music to me, based on the songs I most frequently listen to.
TIDAL has the My Mix feature and the Track Radio feature. I find these invaluable for discovering new music. I'm currently just using TIDAL to discover new music and then locating the new songs in Qobuz. It's an expensive way of doing things as I have to keep two subscriptions active.
Has anyone found a way to emulate the My Mix and Track Radio features of TIDAL in Qobuz?
Roon will emulate the My Mix for Qobuz if you use a computer mostly to listen. Yes, there is a cost to ROON ($120/year) but some of the extra Roon features might be worth the difference between the cost of Subscribing to Qobuz and Roon ($150 + $120 - $270 per year) vs. Tidal ($20 per months - $240 per year). Not sure if Tidal has an annual purchase discount - they didn't for the longest time.
Qobuz is so frustrating! I prefer the sound quality over TIDAL and I've found a fair few Hi-Res tracks. However, the catalogue for my musical tastes is still somewhat limited compared to TIDAL.
But, the thing that really irks me greatly about Qobuz is that there's no easy way to discover new music based on the currently playing track (and my music preference). Qobuz also doesn't appear to recommend any new music to me, based on the songs I most frequently listen to.
TIDAL has the My Mix feature and the Track Radio feature. I find these invaluable for discovering new music. I'm currently just using TIDAL to discover new music and then locating the new songs in Qobuz. It's an expensive way of doing things as I have to keep two subscriptions active.
Has anyone found a way to emulate the My Mix and Track Radio features of TIDAL in Qobuz?
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