Qobuz Windows App

I spent some "quality time" investigating why the Qobuz app is so flaky on my Windows 10 Pro machine and the "smoking gun" is not the Qobuz app, but Windows.  I keep this machine up to date with everything, and power it down when I'm done.  It's not used for much of anything else other than music storage and streaming.  When this machine boots up, of course it runs the "boot up anti-virus scan", and Windows checks to see if there are any updates, the latter seems to fail from time to time and needs to be manually re-run.  I've done all the "configuration" I can in Windows to minimize the ill effects of this Windows Update feature.  I think my best strategy is to boot up the machine about an hour before I plan to use it, fix any Windows Update failures, and just give it time to do its "Windows stuff".  Once the machine "settles down", using the Qobuz app is without problems.

I cancelled my trial.  I'll give it another try in the future perhaps.  Besides the performance of the app, I miss the "daily mix" and "my mix" playlists that Spotify and Tidal create.  Both do a nice job of putting together music I enjoy while playing some things I haven't heard before.

if the ambition of any streaming media player or service is aimed at higher res audio playback for the masses, especially one which crosses language barriers as its norm, an intuitive  short or non existant learning curve MUST be obvious in its use or operation.

oddly and quite sadly many ‘players/streamers’ miss the mark of being intuitive or even thoughtfully compiled.

the aspect that an app is ‘powerful’ means it is complicated yet it should not be so.  POWERFUL  or CONFIGURABLE should not necessitate the end user needs an AS degree to properly setup the software.

defaults should be in place which enable desired popular outcomes.

for bit perfect   playback click here

to upsample files click here

for DSD playback click here

for playback in all zones click here

etc….

lastly, updates and or upgrades should never become yet more complicated than the previous itterations, they should be simpler. neither should things once in one area, be moved to some other area just for the sake of making a thing appear to be different.

I cancelled my sub too. 

I can't get the app to work on my HP laptop at all. It instantly freezes as soon as it loads. I even bought a new computer--it froze on it, too. What is the advantage to using the app over simply streaming from the web?

I renewed my subscription to Qobuz and have been listening to it a lot.  The app works great within the Bluesound app on my Android devices.  The app is still a little buggy on my PC and runs kind of slow, but works fine on my Dell laptop.  I'm not sure what the differences are between the app and web player, but in my case I have more control over output options.