Qobuz dropping rights to my favorites. A pox on their house.
So, I favorite something on Qobuz, come back a few months later and SHAZAM, it's gone. "The rights holders have not made this content available to listen." This seems to be a growing problem for me and I doubt I';m the only one. WTF?? To add insult to injury, I take a look at Amazon (to which I do not subscribe) and there it is.
Qobuz is the only paid service I use. Tidal has too much overlap to be worth it and I find MQA dubious anyway. Amazon's march towards world domination is troubling and I just plain don't like Apple stuff. But my partner uses AppleMusic (I think) and reports similar annoyances.
This leaves me both perplexed and annoyed. I've been slowly culling my CD's, LP's and server library with the assumption that streaming service libraries would grow, not shrink. It's also in keeping with my wish to release my attachments to mere things. I'm coming to feel that this may be a grave error - in the realm of music what we don't physically possess, be it CD, an LP, BR disk or a data file, we never really possessed at all. I'm not content to live off memories of how much I once enjoyed hearing something. I might want to hear it again! So, as far as web/streaming content goes I'm moving back to downloading stuff so it can't be arbitrarily taken away from me.
Anybody else mad as hell and not gonna take it anymore? Bah, humbug! And Happy New Year
@ronboco I'll have to play around with the native app more. I use the Lumin app for streaming, but for building playlists and organization I use the Qobuz app itself. Just haven't figured out how to change the order of an existing playlist.
I'll take a look and share if I find anything. |
@wsrrsw Thank you, I must have missed that little feature. Will give it a whirl later, that'll be great to know for building playlists and something I wish I knew about sooner! |
@wsrrsw I might just be a noob, but how are you able to drag and organize a Playlist on Qobuz? On the native app? |
