I feel much the same. I used the streaming services (Qobuz and Tidal) for discovery but any album that I find myself listenening to repeatedly, I purchase (or, at the least, put on my ‘to purchase’ list).
I download my purchases immediately after purchase.
As music lovers we should be doing this anyway in appreciation and to support the artists.
Buying the album and then streaming it for listening is what maximizes the artist revenue 
And, if it ever disappears from the streaming service, you can still enjoy it Win, win 
I’ve taken to doing the rounds to local charity shops looking for CDs, I’ve had some great finds of almost brand new looking CDs all clearly looked after.
Can’t disagree. I’m not that organised and just appreciated that I had access to that information but don’t now. Fascinated by your ‘name’ which seems to translate to ‘victory is over Ukraine’ Hoping this means ‘victory is (all) over Ukraine’ and not ‘victory is over (for) Ukraine’. We are hosting Ukrainian refugees who are now our dear friends longing for the day they can return to Kryvyi Rih.
I only speak Italian and English and Google translate makes me wince sometimes, so I did rely on it for this, however it states:
Off topic warning…. You have to be careful when it’s not your mother tongue: a friend of mine got a tattoo “Courage” in Chinese - one day a passing native speaker burst out laughing, as apparently it meant something completely different 
Do tell us!
… and the composers
I do that sometimes, and I now notice that there has been some real “pruning” when it comes to Qobuz… I must have bought hundreds of digital downloads there over the years, most of them classical music, and a lot of them have disappeared, only to re-appear, usually under the same label.
Yesterday I wanted to play the Alan Gilbert/New York Philharmonic Recording of Carl Nielsen’s Symphonies, which I got from Qobuz. It was also still in the Qobuz app in my library under “purchases” with a cover, but it wouldn’t play. I wondered why that is and found it has been removed; in my purchase list is just a blank logo there “no longer available”). When I searched Qobuz, I found that the album is still there, but now “only” in the 16bit/44,1kHzs CD sound version, whereas I had purchased the 24bit/96kHz high-res version (which was even cheaper with Qobuz Sublime).
One of the biggest advantages of Qobuz was that you could pretty much rely on your purchases to be there for download whenever you wanted to. I more or less considered last year’s large scale removal of albums and purchases a result of Naxos having purchased Chandos their restructuring of the streaming/download line-up, whatever, but it continues and quite a few albums are suddenly either no longer available or STILL available for purchase and playing, but show up as no longer available for download in your purchases. Some albums I have purchased are removed entirely from Qobuz, like Intrada’s extended version of Jerry Goldsmith’s EXTREME PREJUDICE soundtrack.
Of course, yes, you should (and I do) download purchases (I put them on my own music server), but still, this is a considerably depreciation of service and reliability that Qobuz once had and a rather unfortunate development.
Seems to be licensing issues.
For example. I’ve bought Jean-Michel Jarre’s Oxygene Trilogy album. In 24/48 format.
Now the album has disappeared from the Qobuz store. It can still be streamed. However the first 6 tracks can no longer be played.
I’ve checked the album on TIDAL. It is also missing the first six tracks there.
Can confirm, the first six tracks (which is the first Oxygene album) is greyed out. I’m sure it’s a licensing issue, but it’s interesting that this was non-issue for years and now all of a sudden it happens with a lot of albums. There have always been albums going in and out of print or in and out of license, but it used to be specific cases and not all that common. Now, a lot of albums of different genres and labels seem to be affected. An unfortunate development.
I just purchased and downloaded a hi-res album in flac format from Qobuz
Are the flac files somewhere on my computer?
Did you use the Qobuz Downloader or via their website?
I used their downloader
Thanks for your help!
I usually download my purchases, adjust the tags so they are consistent with all my other tags and add them to my NAS. But it’s still quite annoying that all of a sudden Qobuz is removing a lot of once purchased albums. Even more annoying that they offer me the SAME albums for purchase! So they did not really remove them, but I suppose for licensing reasons behind the screens these albums now count as different albums, even though they are the same.
I download all of my Qobuz purchases and add them to my local library, which then syncs with another on site copy and then to my Backblaze B2 storage.
I don’t know why people are worried about purchases being available indefinitely - for that to work, Qobuz would have to be around indefinitely
We live in an uncertain world.
Download, backup and backup again somewhere else.
