When systems are relatively new. interconnectivity or inter change is frequently not there (career in information systems implementation). I am not into play lists, so I was fine starting over when I went to Qobuz… their selection of high Rez music and sq is best. So, for me that is most important. Having been there, with more music to enjoy than I will ever be able to listen to in my life, with an ever increasing catalog is good for me. But it depends on your priorities.
Library disappointment?
Hello, I’ve had Spotify for a long while and have built up some good playlists, one in particular has about 100 tracks in the electronic and ambiance genre. Today I tried Qobuz for better quality, and when I imported my playlists, I got a crazy low import percentage. In the case of my 100 song playlist, just 60 tracks came over, and it was similar with a couple other playlists. Is this just the electronic genre, or will I have better luck with Tidal? For the type of music I like, this blows. Other thing I found odd, when a track or playlist would end, Qobuz would play another song completely random from another genre. In this case from Foofighters to classical violin. Spotify does a great job at suggesting similar music, is this just the experience, or what am I missing?
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@dadork have you figured out the Qobuz song recommendation issue? Doesn’t seem to have a similar music or playlist radio type function, but maybe I just haven’t found it. When selected music, song or playlist ends, it just starts playing totally random music out of left field. |
Qobuz is a much newer service if I understand correctly. There were concerns when they started about limited choices but as time's passed that has been allayed. There's no reason to doubt more will be added. My questions to Qobuz were quickly answered concerning the ability to arrange artist albums by chronological order. Perhaps people can send in their recommendations for artist. |
I’ve had the same experience attempting to transfer my ambient/electronic genre-heavy playlists from Spotify to Qobuz. Between 60-70% would transfer using Soundiiz. Tidal has a greater hit rate between 85%-95% depending on the artists and how deep the tracks were. These particular genres is where Qobuz fell short for me. What Tidal doesn’t have, which Qobuz now has, is the ability to listen to other members’ playlists which I find enjoyable. Supposedly Tidal is working on this per another member’s discussion with them roughly a year or so ago. |
Qobuz recommends using Soundiiz.com, which transfers playlists from any streaming app to another streaming app, in my case Spotify playlists to Qobuz, Tidal or wherever. It does also do "transfer, synchronize and platform to platform", but I just used the playlist transfer function. At the end, it tells you how many songs it was able to match to the new Qobuz streaming library. No actual file transfers take place. |
Maybe I need another cup too, but I don't know how you would import playlist from somewhere else onto a platform like Qobuz or Tidal anyways. I thought that would be the domain of your server. If I had any music that Qobuz doesn't offer I would think it would have to be stored on a server or a streamer with storage abilities like the Bluesound Vault. I could be totally wrong. |
@dadork maybe I need another cup of coffee, but importing playlists is essentially creating a new playlist. If you’re saying a net new list, with totally different music, well… lol. The challenge is a huge portion of the library I’ve built over the years apparently doesn’t exist on Qobuz. I’ll try Tidal today and import some playlists to see the % hit rate, or stick with lossy on Spotify until they (one day) release lossless. I’m sure you’re fine with the Qobuz library if you’re listening to the Stones, Brittany and Mozart, but otherwise pretty disappointing so far.. |
