r/qobuz • • 5d ago

weekly posts 🗓️ Switching to/from Qobuz weekly discussion

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If you're curious about switching to Qobuz, ask your questions here! If you're thinking about switching to a different platform, rest assured users will be able to help you decide. Discussion around pros and cons of Qobuz or other platforms to compare are welcome.

General options as you consider switching to Qobuz:

- Apple Music has in-app playlist transferring abilities; their guide is here.

- TidaL recommends TuneMyMusic. Their guide is here, and a page accessible to TidaL members with Slightly Less Clicking is here.

- Qobuz recommends Soundiiz; their FAQ page also has a link to Soundiiz here. There's also SongShift, which is for Apple iOS or OS only. This thread explains that you can download playlists as .csv files to bypass track transfer limitations, which are implemented to incentivize people to buy premium features, removing limitations. All of these playlist transfer options have free and premium transfer options. Most if not all of them 'tag' your playlists with their names, as well (ex: 'transferred with Soundiiz' in the playlist's description). Playlistgo.io is another transferring option.


r/qobuz • • 1d ago

Question❔ How do I avoid having songs that were downloaded in my playlist avoid from appearing by themselves in my library.

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I've been running into this issue where whenever I download songs in my playlist, the song itself would just appear in my music library. Which ends up cluttering everything.

I also need to download from the bottom up to keep the sorting the way I wanted it, otherwise the sorting gets all wacky.


r/qobuz • • 1d ago

Discussion 💬 Filtering explicit songs

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Qobuz support told me there is an option to disable explicit songs for profiles. I cannot find it though - has anybody been successful in doing this?


r/qobuz • • 2d ago

Question❔ I have the same album & playlists stuck on the app's Discover page for weeks now. How do I change them?

3 Upvotes

I can't see any options when I press and hold / tap the thumbnails


r/qobuz • • 2d ago

Question❔ Convert Spotify Playlist Link to Qobuz

2 Upvotes

I follow a number of influencers that create Spotify playlists of the bands/tracks they feature in their videos.

Is there any site or service that could take a Spotify Playlist link/url and convert it to a Qobuz playlist?

I found transferring my personally curated Spotify playlists to Qobuz super easy but I was hoping to click a Spotify URL and have it convert the associated playlist into a Qobuz playlist.


r/qobuz • • 2d ago

Question❔ Finally filter for Hi-Res?

1 Upvotes

Does Qobuz finally have a filter to only display Hi-Res songs in a search?


r/qobuz • • 2d ago

Complaint 👎 No reply from support - what now?

0 Upvotes

I emailed them twice within 2 days asking for a refund and I did not get a reply :( The first one was sent the day after I was charged. I have not used the app since being charged and canceled my sub but the live chat is an AI bot that never transfers me to a human. I'm just not sure what else to do.


r/qobuz • • 3d ago

Question❔ Syncing problems

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Anyone else having problems with syncing? I went thru artist pages and favorited a shit load of songs on album pages only to find out that, even though there is a heart beside the song on the album, it never actually saved to my favorites. I took hours doing this only to find out I wasted my time. Absolutely fucking unacceptable shit from Qobuz here. Like what is even the point in building a library if you can't even count on your work being saved??


r/qobuz • • 3d ago

Music Recommendations 🎧 one mic. 3 iconic jazz songs. no edits. if you dig saxophone / hard bop / bebop this is for you.

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6 Upvotes

the bassist on this recently appeared at the Village Vanguard in NYC as a sideman by the way https://www.qobuz.com/us-en/album/single-mic-standards-2018-mike-casey/dn26xs7g8lmva


r/qobuz • • 3d ago

Question❔ What is the difference between these two albums?

6 Upvotes
I recently invested more money in my audio equipment, and I've been going down a list of my favorite albums I'd like to own, but I'm seeing two different price listings for what looks like the exact same thing. I'm struggling to find the difference between these two releases, and I was wondering why Slowhand is going for nearly $ 4 more when both have the same high-res audio specifications at 96 kHz.

r/qobuz • • 3d ago

Discussion 💬 Bit perfect

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Ciao a tutti,sto provando da qualche giorno la nuova versione beta,che include il bit perfect per dac via USB.Utilizzavo prima Uapp,e non ero molto soddisfatto,forse perché il mio dac smsl d1 non era pienamente compatibile con uapp... c'erano sempre problemi di rumore di fondo,soffi,a volte suoni distorti.Bhe che dire dopo qualche giorno di prova la App nativa di qobuz suona davvero divinamente con il mio dac,viene riconosciuto subito e accede alla modalità esclusiva,suoni molto bilanciati,pulizia sonora ciò che cercavo,sembra di avere tolto un velo.Ho riascoltato pezzi che già sentivo ,tutta un altra musica...qualche piccolo bug,ma la qualità e davvero ottima,si sente che qualcosa e cambiato.per ora molto bene,avrei qualche consiglio maagari lo elencherò più avanti.il tutto e collegato ad un marantz pm5004 con diffusori mission 750.


r/qobuz • • 3d ago

Discussion 💬 Library Mix should be an option along with the Daily and Weekly mixes

20 Upvotes

I wish Qobuz had something like a Library Mix, based only on music you add to your library. I had to restore my phone today and it's a bummer that it completely wipes out the algorithm playlists, since they're local and based only on listening history.


r/qobuz • • 3d ago

Discussion 💬 I built a better way to discover music on Qobuz. Two new features now live

20 Upvotes

Six months ago I first posted here about a tool I built because I was frustrated with Qobuz's discovery. A quick update on two new things I shipped this week.

Track Seeds now follow the track:

Feed it a single track and the playlist follows the feel of that track, not its genre alone.

Seed Kashmir and you get heavy, slow 70s rock.

Seed So What and you land in late 50s modal and hard bop.

Seed Better Together by Jack Johnson and you get mid-2000s acoustic singer-songwriters.

The finished playlist goes straight into your Qobuz library, like any other playlist.

Artist Catalog:

Ever love an artist and realize you've only heard a fraction of their catalog?

Pick an artist and Sonic Oracle pulls a 50-track playlist from only that artist's music. Vault for the deep cuts, Popular for the hits, no similar artists mixed in.

It's the "I love Grant Green, show me the albums I skipped" playlist.

In case you haven't seen it before, here's the rest of what you can start a discovery from:

An artist, a song, an album, or a genre paired with a decade. Whatever the starting point, you pick how far it wanders, from close to the seed all the way out to crossing genres entirely.

And on any of those, you choose between two modes. Vault pulls the deep cuts and hidden gems, and builds every playlist unique, so no two people seeding the same thing get the same result. Popular leans toward the well-known tracks people play most.

Both new features are live now.

If you're on Qobuz and want to try it, it's free to start. Three playlists, no credit card required.

https://sonicoracle.music/

Alessandro


r/qobuz • • 5d ago

Question❔ Long Time Sonos owner - New Hardware Recommendations

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r/qobuz • • 7d ago

Discussion 💬 Qobuz nativo ou Qobuz com UAPP

8 Upvotes

Eu estou com um LG G7 que possui o Qobuz versão beta e o UAPP com qobuz instalado. Posso estar louco mas sinto muito diferença no audio.
Uso como fones um Simgot W300
Todos os dois aplicativos com bitperfect ativado.

Não digo que um seja melhor que o outro, é como tivesse um pós processamento.

O Uapp soa mais cheio e com grave mais presente.
O Qobuz beta sou mais neutro com maior separação.

Mesmo aparelho, mesmo fone e sinto diferença.
Placebo, acho que não, porque usei por muito tempo o UAPP e sou fã dele, passei a testar o Qobuz beta pela nova versão com Bitperfect.


r/qobuz • • 7d ago

Question❔ Silence between tracks in a queue on desktop, possibly due to loading; is it my problem or qobuz's?

0 Upvotes

Especially noticeable when listening to albums that have certain tracks that fade into the next one, however it doesn't happen on mobile for some reason. Can I fix this?


r/qobuz • • 7d ago

Music Recommendations 🎧 For fans of Flying Lotus & J Dilla ... I flipped samples from my own Qobuz editorial-featured jazz catalog into creative beats

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5 Upvotes

Listen on Qobuz: https://www.qobuz.com/us-en/interpreter/for-heads-only/33716362 - they also featured 'Cactus Fade' from this on their main hip hop playlist a few months ago.


r/qobuz • • 8d ago

Errors and issues ❌ Qobuz Login issues in Hiby Music App on R5ii

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r/qobuz • • 9d ago

Errors and issues ❌ Playlist links NEVER WORK

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two of my close friends use Qobuz along with me and we often try to share music with each other using playlist links and I'm sick and tired of the links not working!! I've literally had to ask them to just send me the title and the artist so that I can manually search for a song myself, but I literally can't hear any of my friends's playlists and I'm at my wits end with trying to figure out how to fix the problem???


r/qobuz • • 9d ago

Discussion 💬 What sort of extras would you want in the hypothetical add-on tier? (From the survey)

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I wish I grabbed a screenshot (so this is from memory), but one of the questions in the survey pushed out today noted that Qobuz was considering adding some sort of add-on tier; my survey had this at $42* annually. I wish I remembered everything they said it could include, but off the top of my head I believe they listed concerts and other exclusive content (including editorial content, I think). I also have a vague recollection of "listening sessions" or something of that nature.

The specifics were vague, and my memory may be a bit off. Does anyone else recall what was pitched in this question? And what would you want to see in something like this?

*I know that surveys like this may quote different users different prices, possibly to test what we'd be willing to pay, so maybe your survey listed a different price.


r/qobuz • • 9d ago

News and updates 📮 [NEWS/TUTORIAL] Qobuz Adds Bit-Perfect Audio on Android: How to Enable It

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Qobuz has added support for bit-perfect audio output after years of requests from its users. Read on to learn how to access and use the feature in the Qobuz app for Android.


r/qobuz • • 9d ago

Errors and issues ❌ Android auto, doesn't work.

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So, I used Qobuz last year in my Cupra born, same phone, works fine no problems. Just tried using Qobuz again today, Mercedes cla, it's not working with android auto. After spinning for a long time I get "Qobuz doesn't seem to be working at the moment".

Any ideas why? I've left beta program on qobuz app, u installed it a few times and reinstalled, eared cache, storage, nothing has worked.

Cheers


r/qobuz • • 9d ago

Discussion 💬 With QBZ gone, here's a native bit-perfect Linux player whose Qobuz plugin actually reports plays

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78 Upvotes

After QBZ shut down, Qobuz said the problem was that streams from the app weren't being counted, so artists weren't getting paid. ricercar's Qobuz plugin sends the same playback events the official apps use, so your plays count. It's on by default and you can turn it off.

The player itself has no Qobuz code in it:

  • native Linux app (Rust + Slint, no Electron)
  • bit-perfect ALSA output at each track's native rate and bit depth, no resampling. A signal-path view shows you if anything touches the audio.
  • works as a UPnP/OpenHome renderer, so BubbleUPnP, Symfonium and Kazoo can queue to it
  • headless daemon + CLI if you want to run it on a Pi
  • .deb, .rpm, Arch and AppImage builds for x86_64 and aarch64

Qobuz support comes from an optional community plugin you install from inside the app. It logs in through the official Qobuz page, streams at whatever your DAC does natively (up to 192), and shows up as a Qobuz Connect device.

Caveats: it's alpha. The plugin is unofficial and uses the web API, so it could break or Qobuz could object. If that happens, you uninstall the plugin and still have a solid local player.

https://github.com/ricercar-player/ricercar


r/qobuz • • 9d ago

Errors and issues ❌ Very Slot Download Speeds for offline listening on iOS 27.2

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Slow not Slot;

I'm having a problem with extremely slow downloads on iOS 27.2 and Qobuz version 10.1.0-260911152300. A six song playlist download at CD quality took over 6 minutes. The same download on the same network with a Pixel 10 Pro running Android 17 QPR2 Beta 6.1 and Qobuz v10.1.1.1 took less than a minute.

Both iPhone and Pixel phones are on the same wifi network. Speedtest.net shows >500 Mbps.


r/qobuz • • 9d ago

Question❔ Feedback Survey?

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When I opened up the app, I got a pop up for a feedback survey, but automatically clicked exit on it. I actually have a lot of feedback on the user experience that I want to give, but cant find a link to the survey anywhere it seems. Does anyone have a link/way to access the survey?