Thoughts and suggestions please


I only stream and have spent 3 years building my playlist. I have recently been thinking about purchasing my playlist on Qobuz in the event something happens (they go out of business or some major crash) that would lose what I have spent so much time building. Is this a concern for others as well? If I do decide to purchase my list I would need a new streamer with storage capacity. I am looking for suggestions for streamers. I have an N130 node now with Teddy Pardo LPS. I like the BluOS app and am considering a new Node with storage but with all the positive feedback with Innuous and Aurrender I will strongly consider those too. Do their apps compare favorably with the BluOS app? I’d like to stay in the 3-5k cost range.  Thank you for your thoughts. 
 

Ron 
 

 

 

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@lanx0003 

I will definitely be taking a serious look at the ICON and will report back if I go that route. Thank you for your thoughts. 

Thank you everyone for all the great responses. @saugertiesbob  I have around a thousand songs as well between a few lists. I contacted Qobuz and they don’t sell entire lists but I can buy each song on the list separately. I will look at the cost per song before deciding on what to do. 
@dynacohum I just thought a streamer with storage would be more convenient than a separate drive for storage. 

@hilde45 There have been e few suggestions to create the text doc so I will definitely at least do that. One thing I don’t understand is if I wanted to switch to say tidal and import my playlist from Qobuz how does a high rez song from Qobuz remain the same high rez song from Qobuz when it goes to tidal? 
 

@curiousjim I would definitely look at the usb on my N130 but I don’t own any songs on my Qobuz playlist. That’s why I am looking into buying them so no matter what might happen to the service I would have my playlist forever. 

@audphile1 

So it looks like Qobuz songs do not transfer over and I would have to use tidals version of the same track. I am still interested in roon and hope to be able to give it a try sometime. Thanks again 

 

regards 

Ron 

@audphile1 

Thank you for the informative reply! Some things I did not think of. You said if I needed to for some reason I could “restore these tracks from tidal”. Are you saying they will still be the same Qobuz songs just playing from tidal? Or will tidal take the Qobuz songs and convert them to the tidal version? 

@nogaps 

Thank you for your input. The reason I asked about the version is I find the same song on tidal sounds different from the same song on Qobuz and I prefer the Qobuz song.