News: Qobuz Hi-Res platform's debut is scheduled for this October. See Qobuz Links below
1) Qobuz Names Music Industry Veteran Dan Mackta Managing Director USA with more Key Executives for U.S. Launch:
2) Qobuz Named Official High-Resolution Streaming Service of Rocky Mountain International Audio Fest:
About Qobuz
Founded in 2007, Qobuz is a French commercial online music streaming and download service that addresses the needs of curious and discerning music lovers across the globe. It is currently available in Europeand the UK and Ireland. Complementing its unparalleled expertise in sound quality, Qobuz includes an exceptional range of music genres as well as exclusive editorial content. Qobuz offers subscription to streaming services with CD quality and Hi-Res audio spanning all genres. The service also offers the largest catalogue of 24-bit Hi-Res albums for download. For more information, visit: www.qobuz.com.
My Aurender N10 Music Sever already supports Qobuz streaming and I am anxious to start listening to Qobuz music streaming.
“There’s a more agreeable balance now, though, with pop and rock living in harmony next to other genres – and that refreshing eclecticism stands Qobuz apart from its more mainstream rivals“. Let’s hope this holds true....I have been looking forward to a balanced catalog versus Tidal catalog that is now so rap and pop heavy. Not to mention, handful of MQA albums that are just awful. I don’t get the selection criteria for the some of the MQA remasters 😳 I do see an option for Qobuz high resolution streaming now in my Aurender Conductor app but subscription is still not open to US residents. My guess it will be shortly after Qobuz launch at RMAF on Friday. |
Qobuz has traditionally focused more on classical and jazz genres, and French artists – and even today the experience is still not quite the pop-heavy one you get from Spotify, Tidal or Apple Music. There’s a more agreeable balance now, though, with pop and rock living in harmony next to other genres – and that refreshing eclecticism stands Qobuz apart from its more mainstream rivals. https://www.whathifi.com/qobuz/review |
From the Sound and Vision article, it looks like the hi-res streaming option will be $249 per year, which should give Tidal a good "run for the money". It also looks like they'll have Roon integration worked into the product by the end of the year. All good! From what some of my European friends tell me, Qobuz is pretty strong with their classical and jazz libraries. |
A recent update with some additional information on Qobuz's pending US introduction... https://www.soundandvision.com/content/qobuz-gets-ready-its-close |
They should just bring back good old FM radio. Get local control of stations back in the hands of, well. locals. Break up the monopoly hold of corporate radio and have stations dedicated to certain musical genres again. I remember when L.A. had three classical radio stations and just as many jazz stations (maybe two?). Also, I'm told those old TV towers can easily broadcast internet with minor modifications. All it would take is some enterprising politician(s) to get involved and have at least internet radio beamed across our cities. With minimal advertising and some government underwriting, we can have access to music from around the world for everyone to hear. I grew up on free radio and to pay for it over the internet leaves me scratching my balding head. All the best, Nonoise |
I’m not surprised at all it is taking this long to announce something-what happened to Sony’s participation with MQA? What happened to hd tracks-STREAMING? Both MIA.It’s my guess these services can’t get the content (at least for what they want to pay for it) from the content owners (labels, or artists). |
Hopefully they will run an introductory trial so we can try and compare to existing Tidal and Deezer services for ease of use, stability, selection of titles etc. Personally I have never seen an issue with tidal interface of music selection. However I am rock all the way and I tend to search for what I want or just I use the "genres" tab for rock to see what's new. Has worked very well for me so Quboz has its work cut out especially if $9 a month more than tidal hifi service. |
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Qobuz offers 4 different pricing options. They are: Premium at 320kbps Hi-Fi at FLAC 16-Bit/ 44.1 Khz Sublime at CD quality streaming FLAC 16-Bit / 44.1 KHz Sublime+ at Hi-Res quality streaming FLAC 24-Bit up to 192 KHz Please see the link below for additional details and the pricing levels: https://www.qobuz.com/gb-en/music/streaming/offers For example, if I purchase Qobuz Sublime, or Sublime+, I order this option on the Qobuz web site and the correct albums, etc will be presented to my music server. Most likely, I would be interested in the Sublime+ at Hi-Res quality streaming FLAC 24-Bit up to 192 KHz option so these albums will be available on my Aurender Music Server. Aurender Customer Support confirms that Aurender users will purchase the Qobuz price tier option (one of the above four) they want and the correct album format will be made available to the Aurender. I suggest you review your music server to confirm it works with Qobuz and review how it handles the Qobuz pricing option you select. I have requested QoBuz for any additional information about a possible Roon/Qobuz integration and am waiting for their response. |
@hgeifman Thank you for your research and info on the upcoming launch of Qobuz. I am happy with Roon/Tidal now but Qobuz sounds like it would have more Hi-res titles to choose from. I emailed Roon asking if they plan to integrate with Qobuz and got this response. "Nothing I can speak to publicly at the moment, sorry! Keep an eye on our community site for updates: https://community.roonlabs.com" |
Based on my very limited research, it seems that Roon does NOT support Qubuz and some question if the Roon/Qobuz integration will ever happen. I do not know. I believe that Roon support of Qobuz is very important based on the number of Roon users. I emailed Qobuz about how are Roon users going access Qobuz. Does any have any additional info about a Roon/Qubuz integration? |
