I'll try again shortly.....
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
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Thanks for unformatting the original post. Anyway, I'm all for artists not getting screwed. I'd pay more for service that seemed more sustainable. I'd also pay more for a service that devised a means for being more stable. But what will change immediately is my strategy of minimizing physical media. I had hoped that high rez streaming would make that possible, but that just isn't the case. Along the same lines I guess I'll get busy ripping CDs before they disintegrate. I've noticed that it's already started. |
@facten "I guess I’ll get busy ripping CDs before they disintegrate. I’ve noticed that it’s already started." Really, disintegrating in what way? Have CDs since the outset and not a one is "disintegrating," and all play fine. Then count yourself fortunate. I've had them from the outset as well. It's like there some kind of degradation of the lacquer top coat and then something happens to the reflective layer. Then they become hard to read, skip, etc. It isn't common but I have seen it on enough CDs that it's a concern. Google, there's a lot of info out there. |
@mlsstl Sorry, brain fart. I'm absolutely NOT getting rid of what's on the server. To the contrary, it will only grow. It's a beast: an enterprise-grade unit running a 10Tb RAID 10 array with auto backup. Next step is ripping CD's to it before they all rot. |