I tried out hi fidelity streaming service Qobuz for the past month and love the sound quality. Somehow it is a bit better than Spotify lossless. However the reason to use Spotify is in the playlists.
This sort of thing I really missed. I gave Qobuz access to all my saved music and it couldn’t create a list of suggestions at all.
The other issue is playlist management. I couldn’t organize slings by date of release. The option on Qobuz is release but then it sorts it alphabetically. Not very useful to have all the albums that start with A listed by release date, then B and so on.
Qobuz had amazing classical and Spotify has the vast majority of the releases. One of the things where it is superior is in tagging. On Last.fm the songs were listed by performer as the artist which I really like. I think most people are only interested in composer which makes sense unless you are a regular listener, then it is important who is playing the piece.
Maybe I will try it again in a year or so. For now Spotify has much better management function, which is much more essential than the minor advantages I got from Qobuz.
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