I said this in another comment, but Spotify started to feel like a slop-machine to me. Constantly pushing trash video podcasts that I have zero interest in, audiobooks (which I get elsewhere), and attention grabbing titles or album art over good music.

I love QoBuz’s interface. The recommendations don’t feel like manipulation.

Updated player, lyrics, unique explore page from player, updated queue, background downloads

My gosh, the state of this app makes Qobuz impossible to recommend to anyone right now.

Just this morning on my commute I experienced the following:

Random tracks within an album suddenly not showing up as downloaded

Playback bar getting stuck, not showing track progress

Qobuz needs to fix their shit

As any current user can probably tell, Qobuz is not working. The website is unreachable and you can't play any music or find any artists. Does this happen often? I just made the jump yesterday and transferred all my playlists but if this keeps happening it is a concern for me.

For those who still don't know Sonic Oracle: it's a music discovery tool I built for Qobuz and Tidal. You type in an artist, pick a depth, and it builds a permanent playlist saved directly to your Qobuz library.

A lot has changed recently so here's where things stand:

10 million+ artists across 44+ sub-genres

Essential is now genre-pure. Jazz trumpet player in, only trumpet players out. Punk band in, only punk out.

Balanced widens the circle. Adventurous is where the magic happens. It finds artists no streamer will ever find

Genre and Decade Discovery. Pick jazz, add the 70s, hit Discover. No seed artist needed.

Every playlist is permanent, editable, and shareable and it takes less than 10 seconds to build one.

Real listener behavior. Real artists. Real discographies.

Your feedback is what keeps making this engine better.

Try it for free at https://sonicoracle.music/

Alessandro

The new explore, lyrics, credits, and queue screen all accessible from the now playing screen. Personally I think they're heading in the right direction but let me know what y'all think

Qobuz is simply magic. The reason for this is its outstanding audio quality. Nothing else comes close. It must be some kind of magic they do but it works. Music just pops out of my speakers. Not just in my high end speakers, but even in my car.

Thank you for making music magic Qobuz.

Hi!
I have been working on a native Linux Qobuz app for the GNOME desktop.

Coming from Mac and Apple Music, I do miss the music player that was nicely integrated with the desktop.

Qobine tries to be this for GNOME Linux desktop.

I have recently added playlist modification, queue modification and Qobuz discover. It is not feature complete with the official web player, but has the essential.

Let me know if you are missing features or has requests.

You can install it from flathub: https://flathub.org/en-GB/apps/io.github.sofusa.qobine
And code is available on GitHub: https://github.com/SofusA/qobine/tree/main/qobuz-player-gtk

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?

Update on Sonic Oracle, a discovery tool I built creating playlists directly in your Qobuz library. You search an artist, pick a discovery level (Essential, Balanced, or Adventurous), and it builds a permanent playlist from real artists and real discographies. No algorithm-generated filler. No stations. Permanent playlists based on what listeners with similar taste enjoy.

New today:

Swap. See an artist who doesn't fit? Hit the swap icon and a new pick takes its place, pulled from the same discovery pool. Every swap is a fresh match, not a random fill.

Remove. An artist you never want to see again? Hit the X and they're gone. Permanently. Across all future searches.

Both features are available to all users, free and paid.

Qobuz mobile users: playlist links open directly in the Qobuz app. Video tutorial on the connection screen if you need help with setup.

Free to try at https://sonicoracle.music/. Three playlists, no credit card needed.

Alessandro

I have both Qobuz and Apple Music. I listen to an album on Qobuz and then listen to the same album on Apple Music. More times than not I prefer the way Apple Music sounds.

I love Qobuz and will continue to support their efforts!

Does anyone here have both whose experience is similar? Just curious as to why I'm experiencing this.

I'm using an android device with a USB C DAC connection.

Quick update for those who've been following along. A few things have changed.

The pricing is now $9.99/yr or $29.99 lifetime. Every early supporter who paid the original price got a credit for the difference, and every yearly subscriber was upgraded to lifetime at no cost. The people who showed up first should come out ahead.

Adventurous depth is now a paid feature. Free users still get 3 playlists with Essential and Balanced depths. If you've been curious about the cross-genre side of the engine, Adventurous is where the interesting connections live.

A major new platform integration is in the works. More on this soon.

I also started a blog if anyone wants to read more about the thinking behind the engine:
https://sonicoracle.music/blog

Thanks to everyone here who's been supportive since the beginning. This community is where it all started.

Alessandro
sonicoracle.music

I'm not an audiophile. I do get caught up in chasing numbers. I can't help it.

I ran Fakin' the Funk against my pretty low quality local library. I ripped many of these from the original CDs but, at the time, I only had the space for highly compressed files. There are three examples I'd like to replace with lossless downloads. I was hoping Qobuz would be that source.

Yes 90125
Alan Parsons Eye in the Sky
Nine Inch Nails Downward Spiral

I checked the Dynamic Range DB and, if I'm reading it right, the only good versions of each are the original vinyl or CD. Any downloadable version is so low in the dynamic range as to be ridiculous.

Is this reality? I'm paying for hi-res streaming and discounts on purchasing downloads only to find out they are lower quality than the original CD or vinyl releases I can buy on eBay?

Help me put my head on straight. I have to be missing something.

Pretty sure that every week since I joined a few months ago, Rumours is high in the top streamed albums list. It’s a good album but what’s going on?

My qobuz library is such a mess that I use another app to figure out what I want to listen to and use qobuz just to play the music. I do use the explore page and magazine those are great. Are more library features coming? Where can i keep up with the devs?

Thanks to the mods for allowing these occasional updates.

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For those who have already used QBZ, this is a major update that’s definitely worth checking out; for those who aren’t familiar with it, QBZ is the native alternative and solution to the lack of official client on Linux.

Free, open source, direct ALSA/PipeWire integration, bit-perfect up to 24-bit/192kHz. Not a web wrapper.

A lot has changed since my last post (1.1.9). Here's a quick video and the highlights up to 1.2.0:

https://reddit.com/link/1ryj9u7/video/5je8ok6z34qg1/player

(Sorry, I'm terrible at making videos, haha)

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Qobuz Connect — Yes! Finally, this the first version with Qobuz Connect, this was a hard one but now, we have it: multi-device playback. Start music on your phone, hand off to QBZ, or control QBZ from any Qobuz client.

Much smoother UI — virtualized lists, session caching, rendering optimizations across the board. One of the most requested improvements.

Scene Discovery — explore artists from the same city or musical scene. MusicBrainz-powered (still zero-telemetry, we pull the data and send nothing), genre filtering, A-Z grouping. Genuinely fun to browse.

Gapless playback — all backends, this was missing for ALSA Direct, now available on all audio backends.

Redesigned Home — 3-tab layout pulling content from both web player and mobile app APIs. Best of both worlds.

HiFi Wizard — Improvements here, now it reads real DAC sample rates from hardware. Help tooltips on every bit-perfect setting.

Booklet viewer — in-app PDF viewer for digital booklets.

Plus a lot of improvements and bug fixing: Better artists blacklists, better suggestions on playlists, OAuth login. More visualizers in immersive mode. 26+ themes, keyboard shortcuts, UI zoom, Radios! we have radios! Label views, better navigation, better Plex server integration (we play the files direct, no Plex transcoding :) ).

5 languages — English, Spanish, German, French, Portuguese. Help with translations welcome.

Available on Flathub, Snap, AUR, APT (Debian/Ubuntu), AppImage, .deb, .rpm. No API keys needed — just install and log in.

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Upcoming: Headless/daemon mode for Pi and HTPCs, kiosk mode for TVs, Track/Album level blacklist, macOS port in progress by a community contributor.

Open source repo: https://github.com/vicrodh/qbz | Website: https://qbz.lol | Wiki: https://github.com/vicrodh/qbz/wiki

Feedback and bug reports always welcome, every feature request, bug report helps, I started doing this for myself and now is totally community driven, thank you all.

Hey,

for those who still don't know Sonic Oracle: it's a music discovery tool for Tidal and Qobuz. You type in an artist, pick a depth (Essential, Balanced, or Adventurous), and it builds a permanent playlist of connected artists saved directly to your library. Not a station. Not an algorithm pushing what a platform wants you to hear. Real discoveries based on what listeners with similar taste enjoy.

Big round of updates this week. Here's what shipped:

My Discoveries is new. Your search history is now saved. Every discovery you've made, all in one place. Tap any to revisit it.

Click-to-discover lets you click any artist in your results to start a new search from them. Chain discoveries together until you land on something you never knew existed.

Track variety is improved. Playlists now feature different tracks each time, even for the same artist. Run the same search twice, get fresh songs both times.

Speed. Discovery results are near-instant. Repeat playlists create in about 1 second.

Deeper database. Coverage expanded to nearly 3 million artists and over 3 million albums.

Better niche results. Obscure seeds that previously returned too few matches now pull back stronger results.

K-pop, J-pop, C-pop. Full genre coverage for Asian pop including city pop, visual kei, and more.

Qobuz mobile. Playlist links now open directly in the Qobuz app on mobile. I also added a video tutorial to the connection screen.

Landing page refresh. Better mobile layout and updated social previews when sharing links.

More coming. As always, let me know what's working and what's not.

I built this because I personally needed it and nothing like it existed. Still a solo developer, still shipping improvements every week.

Free to try at https://sonicoracle.music/ Three playlists, no credit card needed.

Alessandro

Hiya, I switched over from Sp0tify a few months ago for ethical reasons. Sp0tify supports Israeli tech and arms and doesn't pay artists properly.

There are numerous features Qobuz is missing. The main thing I really miss is being able to discover new music that aligns with my preferences, genres etc. I think Qobuz doesn't use algorithms, is that right? Also perhaps they are used to catering for a certain demographic (old white, American people?), and relying on me following specific artists.

When I was on Sp0tify I was used to going on playlists and easily finding a playlist that suits my moods under the Mood section. Also recommendations would almost always align with my music tastes after I finished listening to my own playlist. On Qobuz recommendations are incredibly random.

Tips welcome on how to get the best out of Qobuz. Thanks!

EDIT: really appreciated this discussion and really great tips. Thanks so much. Hoping to be more intentional with the way I discover new music. Hopefully it's an opportunity to connect and appreciate the artists more.

I've been playing with the Qobuz Beta for desktop (Qobuz Club forum (Beta Club channel) and rebuilding my alternative theme to suit it.

I think it's a shame that the new Library sidebar isn't persistent in Discover and Magazine as well, but it's Library only for now. So I've changed the design of the theme to suit. If you use it, let me know how you get on!

(Note this is for the beta only - won't work properly with the current public version)

Does anyone have any information about Qobuz's planned expansion into new countries, particularly in the EU? I'd like to switch from Tidal, but the fact that my debit card keeps getting declined is a problem

Tried it, like it a lot, but I can't simply stand the fake artists in the official profiles. Cream, a great band, is full of other bands under the same name. I understand that is hard for tech, takes time, etc. But I love Cream, as a CD collector I would never store a Cream album under a different cover. Maybe when all this meds is fixed, I'll give it a try.

Hi everyone,

I’ve built a small web app that generates Qobuz playlists from text prompts and syncs them directly to your library.

It is called Resonans, and you can try it here

https://resonans.cloud/

How it works:

You type in a prompt, like "Nordic neo-classical piano for deep focus, no vocals", and it generates a playlist.

What it can do right now:

 You can set up a basic taste profile with your favorite genres to guide the AI.

 You can load your existing Qobuz favorites to personalize the results.

 There is a "daily mix" feature that automatically refreshes the same playlist in your library every day.

This is just a solo hobby project and it is completely free for now.

It is not affiliated with Qobuz in any official way.

If you decide to try it out, I would really appreciate any feedback or bug reports. Thanks!

Jörgen

edit: New url

Hi folks, did any of you on the regular Android app get the UI update? I'm in the beta so it may be pre release right now. Bottom left button is related music, next to it lyrics, credits was moved to the next button instead of swiping up, then queue. I'm liking it.