DT79
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Since getting Roon (which I really like and have a lifetime subscription for, so I’m sticking with that) I’ve been using Tidal alongside my home library. My intention was to eventually move away from Apple Music, but I never did because I find the tidal mobile apps almost unusable. I think I could cope with the interface if they worked properly but they are just too unreliable. With AM I know that it will work, even with quite a poor mobile signal. Somehow it always manages to work. With Tidal, even on a perfect 4G signal sometimes it just won’t start playing at all.
I’ve also recently come around to the view that at worst MQA is a complete fallacy and at best it’s an unnecessary lossy compression algorithm and especially in view of the fact that they are making more and more of the content MQA encoded, I would be better off with a streaming service that will just give me uncompressed FLAC.
So I’m wondering whether I can kill two birds with one stone by replacing both AM and Tidal with Qobuz. If I get the family subscription that will cover all of my and my wife’s devices and use at home, and come in cheaper than AM + Tidal. And I can ditch iTunes on my Mac as well finally. I can do a free trial, but wanted to suss out the lay of the land first, so I don’t waste weeks figuring stuff out or trouble shooting.
How have people migrated their libraries (including playlists) from either Tidal or AM To Qobuz? When I first got Tidal I used a free app (forget which one) to copy across my AM library. It wasn’t great to be honest. There were a lot of tracks it couldn’t find or matched wrongly and you had to do it one playlist at a time. I’d be prepared to pay a modest fee for a slick/reliable solution.
Will these tools migrate 2 music services to 1 without erroring out every time they encounter a duplicate?
How do people find the Qobuz iPhone app? It’s a bit hard to draw a conclusion from the reviews on the App Store. Crucially, how is it on streaming in less than ideal mobile signal conditions. I don’t want to have to have downloaded anything I might want to listen to.
What’s the Qobuz library coverage like? As long as it’s at least as good as Tidal, then that’ll be fine.
Anyone got experience of using Qobuz in conjunction with Roon? Comparisons to Tidal?
Thanks!
I’ve also recently come around to the view that at worst MQA is a complete fallacy and at best it’s an unnecessary lossy compression algorithm and especially in view of the fact that they are making more and more of the content MQA encoded, I would be better off with a streaming service that will just give me uncompressed FLAC.
So I’m wondering whether I can kill two birds with one stone by replacing both AM and Tidal with Qobuz. If I get the family subscription that will cover all of my and my wife’s devices and use at home, and come in cheaper than AM + Tidal. And I can ditch iTunes on my Mac as well finally. I can do a free trial, but wanted to suss out the lay of the land first, so I don’t waste weeks figuring stuff out or trouble shooting.
How have people migrated their libraries (including playlists) from either Tidal or AM To Qobuz? When I first got Tidal I used a free app (forget which one) to copy across my AM library. It wasn’t great to be honest. There were a lot of tracks it couldn’t find or matched wrongly and you had to do it one playlist at a time. I’d be prepared to pay a modest fee for a slick/reliable solution.
Will these tools migrate 2 music services to 1 without erroring out every time they encounter a duplicate?
How do people find the Qobuz iPhone app? It’s a bit hard to draw a conclusion from the reviews on the App Store. Crucially, how is it on streaming in less than ideal mobile signal conditions. I don’t want to have to have downloaded anything I might want to listen to.
What’s the Qobuz library coverage like? As long as it’s at least as good as Tidal, then that’ll be fine.
Anyone got experience of using Qobuz in conjunction with Roon? Comparisons to Tidal?
Thanks!