I only play purchased digital files stored locally. I update my back up hard drive monthly if I have added new music.
Thoughts and suggestions please
I only stream and have spent 3 years building my playlist. I have recently been thinking about purchasing my playlist on Qobuz in the event something happens (they go out of business or some major crash) that would lose what I have spent so much time building. Is this a concern for others as well? If I do decide to purchase my list I would need a new streamer with storage capacity. I am looking for suggestions for streamers. I have an N130 node now with Teddy Pardo LPS. I like the BluOS app and am considering a new Node with storage but with all the positive feedback with Innuous and Aurrender I will strongly consider those too. Do their apps compare favorably with the BluOS app? I’d like to stay in the 3-5k cost range. Thank you for your thoughts.
Ron
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https://www.tunemymusic.com/ will help you move between services as well as download the playlist in something that MS Excel can understand. There are a few others, none of them are expensive. |
@ronboco there’s software on the market that transfers playlists. One such example is Soundiiz in a very unlikely event you would need to use it. I would not purchase the tracks though at least until there are some indication that the service is going out of business As to streamers….I’ll tackle this knowing the possibilities with your 866 inbuilt DAC. I think I suggested this to you in the past…try Roon free for couple of weeks. It requires a roon core that you would install on any computer that’s sitting on the same network as your 866 and you can control your music with iPad or android tablet. If you like the sound, you can keep Roon, pick up Roon Nucleus One (that’s their dedicated core) and mount a 2.5” SATA drive inside the Nucleus. You can purchase your playlist if you want or you can save your Qobuz playlist as your Roon playlist which saves the track metadata meaning you can just restore these tracks from Tidal for example. Some food for thought. If you insist on getting a new streamer you can look into Lumin, Auralic and Innuous. These offer usb in for external storage. |
Thank you for the informative reply! Some things I did not think of. You said if I needed to for some reason I could “restore these tracks from tidal”. Are you saying they will still be the same Qobuz songs just playing from tidal? Or will tidal take the Qobuz songs and convert them to the tidal version? |
@ronboco i should have clarified…. so for example I have a Roon playlist with Qobuz tracks. For some reason, and by the way it actually happens, an album featuring these tracks is no longer available on Qobuz. These tracks would still be in the Roon playlist but would show as “unavailable”. I would then find this album on Tidal and add those tracks to my Roon playlist. I had to do this few times in the last 2-3 years as albums disappear occasionally. It’s rare though. I use both Qobuz and Tidal and it gives me flexibility plus there are albums on Tidal that aren’t available on Qobuz. Some examples - several Anne Bisson albums. Or Allan Taylor. One other item I missed…you asked about streamers that feature apps that are comparable to BluOS. I have tried several streamers (Lumin, Auralic, Aurender, WiiM) and streaming options (Mconnect, Audirvana, Tidal connect, Qobuz connect, Roon). Best UI - Roon. Second best Aurender Conductor and Auralic Lightning DS. Conductor loads tracks into a queue. It’s superb from sound quality perspective but to me it is annoying as the queue maintenance becomes a PIA. Lumin has hideous UI. I used it. You can get used to it but man it’s no fun. Tidal and Qobuz connect are very straight forward you basically just use the apps. |
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