@mlsstl Sorry, brain fart. I'm absolutely NOT getting rid of what's on the server. To the contrary, it will only grow. It's a beast: an enterprise-grade unit running a 10Tb RAID 10 array with auto backup. Next step is ripping CD's to it before they all rot.
Qobuz dropping rights to my favorites. A pox on their house.
So, I favorite something on Qobuz, come back a few months later and SHAZAM, it's gone. "The rights holders have not made this content available to listen." This seems to be a growing problem for me and I doubt I';m the only one. WTF?? To add insult to injury, I take a look at Amazon (to which I do not subscribe) and there it is.
Qobuz is the only paid service I use. Tidal has too much overlap to be worth it and I find MQA dubious anyway. Amazon's march towards world domination is troubling and I just plain don't like Apple stuff. But my partner uses AppleMusic (I think) and reports similar annoyances.
This leaves me both perplexed and annoyed. I've been slowly culling my CD's, LP's and server library with the assumption that streaming service libraries would grow, not shrink. It's also in keeping with my wish to release my attachments to mere things. I'm coming to feel that this may be a grave error - in the realm of music what we don't physically possess, be it CD, an LP, BR disk or a data file, we never really possessed at all. I'm not content to live off memories of how much I once enjoyed hearing something. I might want to hear it again! So, as far as web/streaming content goes I'm moving back to downloading stuff so it can't be arbitrarily taken away from me.
Anybody else mad as hell and not gonna take it anymore? Bah, humbug! And Happy New Year
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@kletter1mann "Google, there’s a lot of info out there" Yes there are some folks who have noted issues with early 80s CDs produced by a certain mfg in the UK where the outer edge turned bronze. There are plenty of folks voice no issue. There are people who claim the life span of CDs is 20 years there are others that it’s 100-500 years. That said, do what’s best for you which is all that ultimately matters. And, my apologies as my first post should have been worded in a different tone😀
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@kletter1mann The same culling happens on Amazon/Prime Music including the most expensive HD Family plan that I switched to from Tidal. And it can be very frustrating when tracks suddenly disappear from custom playlists. Not only that, but on AmazonMusic, they will also change-up the quality offering... Let's say you added the UHD (best sound quality version) to a playlist, then they change the SQ to HD - this causes the UHD version to become unavailable. So the only way to get it back is the search for it again and add it back to the playlist in the lower quality. The other gripe I have with Amazon Music is when you buy the digital music, it is MP3 - unless you buy the physical CD and rip it when it arrives - thats lame. My point is Amazon is no better than the rest in this regard - we might have thought the libraries would be ever-increasing, but this is not the case. Instead, they are ever changing, and without warning become unavailable or downgraded. I've seen tracks disappear, then return again a couple weeks later - but usually not. @mspot has it right... use streaming services for discovery, then buy what you want to keep.
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@kletter1mann Yup. I make playlists (also listen to albums) and sometimes a track becomes greyed out/unavaible. I search for the "missing" track and almost always find it and back in it goes. Rarely is it gone forever. I’m not a coder nor do I play one on TV but I suspect this is a Qobuz database problem? It’s a time suck to get the replacement file and drag it back to where it was. Missing
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