Has anybody tried Qobuz Streaming service?

I am a Qobuz subscriber.  Love it.  Great music selection and sound quality.  

I GAVE UP ON QOBUZ!

I installed the Qobuz Windows app on a Windows10 Pro, quad core I7 machine with 16 gigs of memory.  This machine is only used for my audio system, when running Qobuz (or Tidal) it's the only app I have running on the machine, with the screen saver turned "off".  The PC is attached to my home network with an ethernet cable, and my Comcast service has about 185mb down, so from a connectivity perspective, I should be "good".

The whole time I used Qobuz (for about six weeks), I'd say only about 25% of the time did the app seem to work.  Typically, the app would be doing who-knows-what, consuming more than 75% of the cpu, not offering a pointer to select anything.  When I'd be able to select things, attempted to get a hi-res album to load, the play/pause control would be replaced with a spinning icon, most of the time never load the first track.  Sometimes when it would load the first track, it would play for a while, then either stop, or skip to the next track.

I tried accessing Qobuz via their web client, and using Roon, same result.

So, last night, I reached my limit and cancelled the service.

To be fair, when I'm streaming from Tidal, very occasionally it'll be playing a track, then stop, with the icon spinning, but this is VERY rare.

So, I think I'll stick with Tidal.

@ejr1953 I had similar issues with the Windows app.  I was part of the beta group and reported it and have been contacted by Qobuz.  They are working on a revision to the app and have asked me to be a tester.  No word yet on when it will be ready.

It may be something specific to your computer.  It works with no issues on my laptop which is a less powerful machine than my desktop system, which is where I've experienced the issues you have.  I have one DAC driver installed on the laptop, and have three installed on the desktop (MHDT Labs Orchid, Sony TA-ZH1ES, and Peachtree Nova 300).  The Peachtree driver seems to be the one that has caused issues.  The application works OK when that driver is not installed.

The app also works great on my tablet with Bluesound's BlueOS app.

Disaster,
First off, when I downloaded the desktop app it would freeze, I would have to go into my task manager to close it, never was able to play even one track. Then I just used the Web player which worked fine, but all the files played back at just 44.1/16, even when they were supposed to be high-res files! So then I loaded the App on my iPad, this time the music would skip as if it had to buffer more of the track to play, the thing is my internet service for download is 250mbps, way more than I should need and my Steamer (Cambridge AZURE 850N) is connected directly to my Gateway with a CAT7 cable, I have no issues streaming High Res TIDAL or Spotify, regardless of what device I am using. Lastly, I really do like Qobuz, the selection of music is more to my liking compared to TIDAL, but right now it's way to "buggy" for me. So for now I tip my hat to TIDAL and will revisit Qobuz maybe in another 6 months??

grm 

I slightly prefer the sound of Qobuz 24 bit PCM ("Native Quality Audio") to Tidal MQA. TBF, my DAC is not MQA'd, so I only get the first unfold with Roon. But why would I ever buy new hardware to play MQA files when I can play an original hi-res file not needing folding and unfolding?
For now, I am keeping Tidal because there are about 30 albums in my library on Tidal but not Qobuz. I could just buy those albums but that amount of money will also pay for about 2 years of Tidal. If Qobuz adds most of those albums I will cancel Tidal.