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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Showing 2 responses by mlsstl

I have the same search problems with my collection back when I had CDs and LPs -- the wife would listen to something and then put it back in a different spot....

@kletter1mann -- "I've been slowly culling my CD's, LP's and server library with the assumption that streaming service libraries would grow, not shrink."

I can understand getting rid of CDs and LPs for reasons of the physical space they take up, but why in the world would you get rid of material on a server? I've got my local music on a 4TB 2.5" USB drive that isn't much bigger than a pack of playing cards. I've also got two backups which are stored in drawers.

Copyright fights have been an ongoing issue in the music, TV, film and publishing industries for decades and decades. Those issues are not going away anytime soon.  I use Qobuz and enjoy it, but if I find an album I really don't want to live without, I either download it to my local server or get a CD copy and transfer that to my server.  I use LMS as my playback server and it integrates my local collection with Qobuz seemlessly.