I am coming to the end of a Qobuz Sublime Plus yearly subscription and Iām not going to renew.
Why?
The Qobuz website and app oozes curation but Iām increasingly finding that they appear to rip everything indiscriminately making sifting though older out of copyright artists virtually impossible.
The last straw was after listening to a podcast about Charlie Parker and deciding to look him up through Roon - a whopping 896 albums
What did you search on? Iāve got Tidal and Qobuz subscriptions, and a simple search for Charlie Parker doesnāt give me anywhere near that many albums/results.
If you want to search for Charlie Parker albums in Roon, looking at the album search results for search terms āCharlie Parkerā is not the way to do it. You need to do the search and click through to Charlie Parkerās performer page, where his entire catalog will be available.
Album search results will return some of his albums, but you have to realize that search is also looking to match album titles as well.
If this is what you are doing already, itās possible that there are regional differences.
Both screenshots are from performer page. As you imply it may be due to EU copyright, but certainly Qobuz are ripping and putting this dross into my lovely Roon is how I see it.
@joel and @RBM, thatās what Iāve been wondering, because I (in the US) donāt see nearly that number of results when just searching for Charlie Parker and looking at the album results:
I donāt think Tidal is doing any quality control at all. People/Labels upload their music through an online service. Whatever the Label or the Artists upload through these services gets on Tidal. The end. This is the reason I can upload an album that has the artist name as an existing artist name. If I wanted to upload an album by an artist called Pink Floyd I can. Sure, Pink Floyd is gonna take action and that content will get deleted. It happened in the past with Anathema and other bands. Also, almost everyday I find bands with identical names that Tidal groups into one single artist/band. If they were doing any quality control this wouldnāt have happened. So, I donāt think itās Qobuz to blame here, just regular, plain, old people who spam the service.
Iād much rather have bloated search results for Charlie Parker than bloated rap singles being pushed on me every week. Qobuz isnāt perfect but thereās so much music out there vs time, itās a bit silly imo to get too upset about what they have or donāt have.
I can never understand this complaint, rap singles are not pushed on me in Roon via Tidal at all, unless I go looking for them. How are they āpushedā on you?
I prefer the curation of Qobuz is all. But, I only get 111 Charlie Parker albums via Qobuz, so sounds like weāre both taking about different streaming services so Iāll leave it at that.
Iām confused. Your search indicates you have both Qobuz and Tidal. I only have Qobuz currently and I get 117 Charlie Parker albums.
Odd that the rest of us are asking for Qobuz to increase their catalog and you want ālessā or just more curated? It seems better to have more/all and allow each individual to choose what to listen to than be limited or restricted to a ācuratedā list only.
Are you saying goodbye to Tidal too? If this was just a rant, ok.