Qobuz dropping rights to my favorites. A pox on their house.

What?

I'll try again shortly.....

@kletter1mann, I copied and pasted your post, and it removed some characters that caused weird formatting:

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

You have valid concerns, and some of my favorited albums have also been removed from Qobuz and Tidal. Some labels even removed their entire catalog from streaming. My attitude is that you can do both streaming and purchase, and one doesn't preclude the other.

I will always subscribe to streaming because it is valuable to me for music discovery and having access to an almost unlimited library. There is a lot of music I want to explore but have no desire to purchase and own forever. If something I love disappears from streaming, I can still have it by purchasing it separately.

I lived through the LP and CD era when there was a lot of music I could only hear by purchasing the album. Many purchases ended up being played only one time, because the purpose was exploration. By comparison, streaming is an absolute bargain, and for me it is a small ongoing expense that I don't mind paying for.

It is upsetting when it feels like something was taken away from you. However, if you imagine that if you had begun subscribing to the service a little later, it wouldn't have been there to begin with.

@mspot 

Very well stated and thoughtful perspective.

Charles