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  • ejs@piefed.socialEnglish
    4·
    8 days ago

    yea there’s still honestly some downsides to Qobuz, including:

    • Artist profiles: lack of consistency on details like images, descriptions
    • Generated recommendations: magazine articles and album reviews (sometimes) written by humans are top notch; the tradeoff is that recommendations based on specific playlists are often far less “close” musically and I often get random and unexpected auto plays; there is no “daily mix” or “similar artists” or good recommendations for adding new tracks to a longer playlist
    • Library: across the many diverse genres I listen to, frequently newer releases are delayed on Qobuz. Older music library is outstanding, extremely few of my 10s of thousands of total tracks of jazz records were unavailable
    • bss03@infosec.pubEnglish
      2·
      7 days ago

      there is no “daily mix”

      Actually, there is, but it’s only visible on the mobile apps, and not on the website. It’s called “DailyQ” and there’s also a “WeeklyQ”. You can start it on your phone, and once it is your play queue, the web app should pick it up almost immediately.

      It used to be on the web app too, but in some “minor” redesign it dropped out of the “For You” section, and I can’t even find it when I search from the browser app.

      I’m also disappointed in the auto-play. Both YT Music and Tidal seemed to stay much more “on theme” and I could start from one album or artist’s radio and listen for several hours on auto-play. With Qobuz auto play, it’s usually migrated away from what I was wanting within 4 tracks.

      My adjustment is to find “shows” like ASoT (A State of Trance) and ABGT (Above & Beyond: Group Therapy) and queue them up to get more than an album’s worth of songs without having to fiddle with a playlist. I wish FYH (Find Your Harmony) with Andrew Rayel was on Qobuz; I got really into that the last 2 months I was on Tidal.