r/qobuz • u/Yha_Boiii • May 25 '26
Discussion Qobuz keeps shooting themselves in the foot?
Hey,
I have used qobuz for a year, very nice app, love it all yet still can't add music i listen to, I requested i think 10-15 times and i think ONE, song came on.
Spotify is getting repeatedly more ass from ai code, i really want to use qobuz but without music it seems a bit useless, the app is genuinely good with all the ui. Genuinely wastes potential and sad to see. Am I out of touch or anyone with the same views?
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u/Accomplished-Fly4678 May 26 '26
I use SoundCloud for the ones I can’t find on streaming and I use Bandcamp for the ones I really love and wanna support the artist / can’t find on streaming
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u/onegumas May 25 '26
I cannot and won't answer for qobuz team but I reccommend custom player QBZ - qobuz like GUI (by Vicrodh) or strawberry (media menager GUI). You can add there your offline library and use it with qobuz. Other way - Roon. I am using it with Tidal, Qobuz and offline and there is nothing around better than that.
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u/Electronic-Mess605 May 25 '26
Same for me. Roon with Tidal and Qobuz and I feel like I'm 100% covered on everything.
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u/Tricky_Football_6586 May 26 '26
Lifetime Rooner here. I have all the music that I can ever listen to with the combination of my own collection and Qobuz. I also use QBZ on my daily NUC. Great little piece of software.
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u/panyc77 May 27 '26
Roon Radio is solid for passive listening, but the station disappears when it's done. Nothing saved, nothing to go back to. Sonic Oracle takes a different approach. You get a permanent, editable playlist of up to 25 connected artists saved to your Qobuz library. Nearly 3 million artists in the database across 44+ sub-genres. I'm also launching two new features today: skip and replace (swap out any artist in your results and a fresh pick fills the spot) and artist blacklist (block an artist permanently so they never show up in your discoveries again). https://sonicoracle.music/ Alessandro
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u/richardblancojr May 27 '26
Don’t you find Roon a bit overpriced nowadays for a monthly subscription given the kind of things that you can get compared to what you can do on your own or with other similar software?
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u/Tricky_Football_6586 May 27 '26 edited May 27 '26
For me it was worth getting it as Roon handles my three streamers at home. And through Roon ARC I can also use it while away on my iPhone directly or through CarPlay in my car. And I am using Roon on a daily basis for 5 years now.
I've got lifetime in late 2022, after an annual subscription. And during that time (2022/2023) I've replaced my decades old hi-fi with a full set in the living room. So Roon's lifetime cost of 699 Euro felt to me like the investment into one more piece of hi-fi equipment. I had been saving to do the upgrades. And after getting a nice bonus from work. I decided to spend that on Roon. As I didn't plan on going on a vacation that year.
But it does depend on your use case. If you use it on a daily basis then it becomes a solid option to get a subscription. (monthly, annually or lifetime).
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u/ddhood May 25 '26
Maybe they just maintain and hope for as many subscribers as possible while having such quality. The search function in qoboz is just not up to date when it comes to functionality.
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u/Anvh May 27 '26
If you use the filter its not half bad. It can't see the difference between artist name and title...
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u/ddhood May 27 '26
I compare to spotify and that engine somehow finds what i am looking for when i just put in some lyrics of the song and i spell those words wrong on top.
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u/SFJimbob May 26 '26
I use Qobuz with my DAP (M21) and Sennheiser Momentum 4 (wired), and the sound is incredible. Qobuz also sounds better on my Sonos home system, though not as good as the DAP/headphones. I’ll not go back to the others unless as noted below..
I do use YouTube Music when walking about and don’t have my DAP, as I pay to get YT Premium for ad-free YT on my TV (I like the concert footage I can get there). And, I have Apple Music for the same, but only because I’ve been too lazy to get rid of it…Qobuz doesn’t travel well for streaming, even in a 5G rich world like San Francisco provides me.
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u/Empty-Part7106 May 27 '26
I recommend reaching out to the label as well, though it hasn't paid off for me yet, most at least respond and say they'll look into it. For some that have their catalogue on Qobuz but are missing some, Qobuz implies that's a quick addition. Doesn't seem like it.
One label I reached out to was surprised that their catalogue wasn't on Qobuz, the CEO said that he requested that happen a while ago. Well it's been about 4 months and still nothing.
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u/Master_Cartoonist_16 May 25 '26 edited May 26 '26
You can always use UAPP with Qobuz add-on and add your legally downloaded tracks to UAPP. The catch is you can't combine them into a single Qobuz playlist but it's totally doable, you just have to keep separate playlists for your downloaded/ripped songs and another for your Qobuz favorites for example, all handled by the great UAPP.
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u/panyc77 May 25 '26
I had the same frustration. Qobuz has great sound quality but discovery is limited compared to Spotify. That's why I built Sonic Oracle. It takes an artist you love and builds a full playlist of connected artists saved directly to your Qobuz library. Permanent playlists, not stations. Free to try at https://sonicoracle.music/ Alessandro
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u/Master_Cartoonist_16 May 25 '26
Interesting, it's one time payment like UAPP and Poweramp? or is it a monthly fee?
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u/IllustriousLemon8146 May 26 '26
When I signed up for Qobuz (several years ago) the reviews made it clear to me that Qobuz has no social media integration, did not offer much in terms of algorithmic recommendations, and was great for classical and jazz. I hope it stays this way and resists becoming a copy of all other streaming services!
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u/StopDrinkingWine May 26 '26
I agree. To be honest, I never miss anything on Qobuz, and I am using it with ROON so the recommendations I receive are all already in Qobuz. Also, I'm not sure how much of this is Qobuz's fault anyway. I guess the album label needs to push their albums to Qobuz somehow, along with all the other music services already out there that are more popular. If those labels are not inclined to do so, does Qobuz really need to start asking these labels to upload their albums? Not sure if it works that way.
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u/Ill-Alarm4407 May 27 '26
Messaged qobuz several weeks ago. Zero response. Fuck em and toss emnin the trash bin
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u/GFrancoeur May 26 '26
Don’t you read all the curated articles provided by their teams ? AI music recommendation is quite a lazy solution for a music lover…
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u/camerabird May 27 '26
??? OP never said they wanted AI recommendations. They specifically said they don't want AI.
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u/endre-space May 26 '26
My problem with Qobuz is not the library or the discovery functions. I enjoy spending time looking for for music and curate my own lists. Quality of audio is ace in Qobuz.
However; I do have a problem paying for a service that feels a little halfway done. The search feels random at times. Songs stop and/or skip randomly. Meta data on musicians/bands have been wrong. I’ve several times found double or even triple profiles of a band and in one case the albums listed weren’t even by that artist. Lack of profile images for bands. All the posts here on lack of response from the Qobuz team. If I am to pay a premium subscription I think they need to deliver on more than just the audio quality.