Excellent sound quality.
Find it the best from the rest in sound quality. Love album artwork.
Please bring it to Canada.
Please bring it to Canada.
Problems initially but now loving it.
Having nothing but problems with app. Music shutting off in the middle of play back and signed up for sublime subscription but can only play back at cd quality despite using external fiio q5 dac/amp and iPhone XS Max with lastest iOS. Great idea if they can get things working. No phone number for support and still no email response for support after 24hrs so far.
Update on this. Finally got email back and not very helpful indicating that since bought subscription from App Store need to talk to them. No help there directed me back. Eventually figured out App Store subscription for 25$ is only hifi or cd quality streaming while 25$ sublime from Qobuz on their website allows you to stream all music at highest resolution through app. Not sure why that is.
Now working as advertised and I’m loving it so I’m upping my star rating.
Update on this. Finally got email back and not very helpful indicating that since bought subscription from App Store need to talk to them. No help there directed me back. Eventually figured out App Store subscription for 25$ is only hifi or cd quality streaming while 25$ sublime from Qobuz on their website allows you to stream all music at highest resolution through app. Not sure why that is.
Now working as advertised and I’m loving it so I’m upping my star rating.
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Excessive French?
The basic functionality of this service is quite good, with a choice of streaming /download quality. As with most streaming services the search facility for Classical Music is very poor, with little ability to search for composer/work/artist. Instead you trawl through all the works by a particular composer. If you queue a number of works to download to iPhone it sometimes stalls and you have to delete and redownload the works. It doesn’t seem to like a large queue of downloads effectively.
One of the irritating characteristics is the excessive use of French (I suppose it’s a battle with the Academie Francaise) - for example a CD that was published with English front cover and description, gets translated into French which is pointless and irritating. Most of the error messages occur in French, and while my French is perfectly acceptable at this level, if they really believe that this is an international product then it needs to get rid of this excessive French, and give the user the option to select a language. Show French CDs in French by all means, but don’t employ lots of translators to turn English releases into French. Better still just run in English only.
For the classical enthusiast probably the best of a bad bunch.
One of the irritating characteristics is the excessive use of French (I suppose it’s a battle with the Academie Francaise) - for example a CD that was published with English front cover and description, gets translated into French which is pointless and irritating. Most of the error messages occur in French, and while my French is perfectly acceptable at this level, if they really believe that this is an international product then it needs to get rid of this excessive French, and give the user the option to select a language. Show French CDs in French by all means, but don’t employ lots of translators to turn English releases into French. Better still just run in English only.
For the classical enthusiast probably the best of a bad bunch.
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Can be improved.
Whenever I try to use it in the car (Jeep), the infotainment system and the Qobuz app won’t work together most of the time while I have no issue with the iTunes app.
Sadly no hires streaming in Australia. Best is cd quality.
I love Qobuz for their choses in music, less Comercial than iTunes. I discover more good music through this app. Interesting playlists and hifi equipment articles built in. Content and concept is great. Please improve the app stability and compatibility CarPlay integration would be a must and really necessary to enjoy the app when you have the most time : While driving.
Sadly no hires streaming in Australia. Best is cd quality.
I love Qobuz for their choses in music, less Comercial than iTunes. I discover more good music through this app. Interesting playlists and hifi equipment articles built in. Content and concept is great. Please improve the app stability and compatibility CarPlay integration would be a must and really necessary to enjoy the app when you have the most time : While driving.
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Awesome audio quality
Qobuz discovery and recommendations, their essential discography, has done more to broaden my musical listening range than anything else recently. As a sublime subscriber for over a year, I've seen the back catalogue expanded including music missing when I first joined. The amount of 24bit audio added though is outstanding and sounds amazing on my hifi. Are they better than the leading streaming music service? Depends on what you measure, the app usability and search isn't as good but the music curation is better and their main benefit is studio master streaming audio, from Daft Punk to the London Symphony Orchestra.
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Misleading
I’m writing from the perspective of a non-subscriber who simply wished to listen to the Hi-Res music purchased from the Qobuz site.
I bought two High-Res albums on the Qobuz website, at which point I was directed to listen to them via the app. However, you are not informed that as a non-subscriber, you can only import them at CD quality (16 bit vs 24 bit)—CD quality being a different, cheaper option to purchase. It’s not an outright scam as you can download the files on a PC and then sync them to your iPhone, but had that been made clear, I would have bought them from a cheaper site (the convenience of the app was a selling point for me).
I feel that having to subscribe in order to properly listen to the music that you have actually bought is an exploitative model for an app.
I bought two High-Res albums on the Qobuz website, at which point I was directed to listen to them via the app. However, you are not informed that as a non-subscriber, you can only import them at CD quality (16 bit vs 24 bit)—CD quality being a different, cheaper option to purchase. It’s not an outright scam as you can download the files on a PC and then sync them to your iPhone, but had that been made clear, I would have bought them from a cheaper site (the convenience of the app was a selling point for me).
I feel that having to subscribe in order to properly listen to the music that you have actually bought is an exploitative model for an app.
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Does not work at all.
Completely unable to subscribe or even use a free trial subscription. Clicking on free trial takes you to a page that says ”sorry, there are no offers available right now.” Clicking on the subscription takes you to ”sorry, there are no offers available right now. Don't qobuz want people to pay for their service???!
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Qobuz is unique
Qobuz provides fairly comprehensive coverage of all music genre and is probably the best for classical and jazz although most of my off line downloads are indie, country and western and popular music. I was a Tidal flac subscriber but on extensive tests found Quobuz had the edge on sound quality. The big plus with Qobuz is Hi Res and no other music streaming service offers this with the ability to buy Hi Res music at considerably reduced prices, if you are a Sublime or Sublime plus subscriber. You can download the Hi Res files to your PC or other devices and own them for use anywhere. Most of my listening is via iphone, dragonfly red and ie 800s. I also use the Onkyo Hi Res player and load the Hi Res albums on this to play them without risk of connection loss. I agree with other reviews that the Qobuz App needs improvement - it is unpredictable particularly when downloading for off line use and you find its stopped half way. Also the feature of adding albums that you just want to sample to your off line files is a pain. Despite this, superb sound quality and Hi Res makes Qobuz unique. Qobuz - please improve the App and get 5 stars!
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Room for improvement
Qobuz is the only hi-res streaming service out there and it has undeniably changed for the better in recent years, and navigating the app is much faster than on some of its Swedish competitors. However, there are still some annoying bugs and questionable functional/ergonomical choices that need to be adressed.
when network connection is lost, playback stutters and the app comes back to the home screen, even if I am browsing e.g. the settings menu.
If switching from cellular to wi-fi or the opposite, or when switching between wi-fi networks, Qobuz loses the connection seemingly forever and the only way to play any music again is to manually exit and restart the app. This doesn’t work for commuters constantly switching between public wi-fi and 3-4G.
Audio output selection button is designed like a share button.
Audio output selection doesn’t let you switch between bluetooth and internal phone speaker or jack.
No equalizer.
‘Offline library’ should only show tracks synched for offline playing. Instead it shows tracks not yet in cache, as well as tracks temporarily in cache because they were played recently.
On the iPhone, playing Qobuz over Bluetooth results in either MP3 or ALAC recompressed into the very lossy SBC format being pumped into the headphones. Having the option of AAC would greatly improve sound quality, which I thought was Qobuz’s key selling point.
when network connection is lost, playback stutters and the app comes back to the home screen, even if I am browsing e.g. the settings menu.
If switching from cellular to wi-fi or the opposite, or when switching between wi-fi networks, Qobuz loses the connection seemingly forever and the only way to play any music again is to manually exit and restart the app. This doesn’t work for commuters constantly switching between public wi-fi and 3-4G.
Audio output selection button is designed like a share button.
Audio output selection doesn’t let you switch between bluetooth and internal phone speaker or jack.
No equalizer.
‘Offline library’ should only show tracks synched for offline playing. Instead it shows tracks not yet in cache, as well as tracks temporarily in cache because they were played recently.
On the iPhone, playing Qobuz over Bluetooth results in either MP3 or ALAC recompressed into the very lossy SBC format being pumped into the headphones. Having the option of AAC would greatly improve sound quality, which I thought was Qobuz’s key selling point.
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