Qobuz Windows App

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.  

Since my last post on this subject in February, I gave up on the Qobuz Windows app. When I investigated further, I found that the app freezing was a really common problem, one that Qobuz support admitted they were working on. I’d say it ran only about 20% of the time without freezing.

Fast forward a few months and UPS delivered a Roon Nucleus Plus streaming server.

I signed up for a Qobuz "studio" (hi res) plan and configured Roon to use it and Tidal on the new server and the sound is just plain awesome!  No problems streaming using the Roon box.

I have been using Tidal on-and-off and Amazon Music for a number of years, and recently I pullet the trigger on a Mojo 2.

With the Mojo adition I was really hopping to get a decent improvement on Tidal (I know the Mojo doesn’t have MQA, and for a good reason).

I recently decide to give a go to Qobuz and just clicked the 1st music that appeared in the screen:

Who’s next by The Who... WTF! I had no idea this track could sound that good! To be sure, I run the same track (w/ same bitrate) on Tidal and the difference is tremendous.
I immediately dug into some of my favourite albuns. OMG, it seems I'm rediscovering music.

Tidal discovery options and interface are great but the sound quality isn’t there; MQA is pure snake oil.

About Qobuz; the interface is a bit laggy in my PC (Dual Xeon, 128 Gb Ram)