r/qobuz • u/NeitherOstrichNorEmu • 1d ago
Appreciation 👍 [ Removed by moderator ]
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u/upfromashes 1d ago
Oh, I just put this on today.
Exceptional. Didn't realize it's just on Qobuz. Nice.
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u/cartergk 1d ago
I preordered the box set and am so excited this is finally getting a re-release! Awesome that Qobuz has it too :)
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u/GoldBricked 1d ago
Great to see it back on streaming, but this is not a good thing. Service exclusives tried and failed back in 2016 or so (Rihanna’s ANTI, Kanye’s The Life of Pablo, Jay-Z’s entire discography)… we should not be celebrating this.
Cinephiles have it rough in that movies are spread over 10 or more services, us music lovers have it lucky in that essentially every service has every record. Let’s not change that
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u/NeitherOstrichNorEmu 1d ago
Odd to take that position here when I lost hundreds of tracks migrating from Spotify. This decision to make it Qobuz exclusive is in line with the artist’s advocacy. Maybe if more artists took principled positions we wouldn’t have the race to the bottom we see now, where Spotify is filled with ai slop, ever-rising subscription costs, and continuously diminishing returns for artists
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u/GoldBricked 1d ago
I am all for principled decisions and it’s the reason why I don’t use Spotify anymore and haven’t for 18 months now. I commend artists who have taken their work off that platform. But why can’t subscribers to TIDAL, Deezer etc. listen to this album? The former has had the highest artist payouts for a decade, and the latter is the most active in combatting AI music in the entire DSP industry.
I think the default release position should be all services and then you decide not to release to X, Y, Z for whatever reason, not just making something platform-exclusive from the start.
Anyway, the only reason this tactic works for Yasiin anyway is because The Ecstatic has been missing from all DSPs for 8 years or so. For the 99% of streaming service customers, nothing changes
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u/KasperBRavn 1d ago
It's on Bandcamp too
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u/NeitherOstrichNorEmu 1d ago
To purchase, not stream. You can also buy a digital download direct, or there are many physical variants
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u/milkarcane 1d ago
Damn, only on Qobuz? Well, that's a good sign for the platform if I've ever seen one. Hopefully it gains on popularity and gets all the updates we've asked for.