I made a Styx retrospective for my good buddy, @HailsandAles
Spotify:
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3mmM8Vas3PzP351MScNJpi
Qobuz:

I made a Styx retrospective for my good buddy, @HailsandAles
Spotify:
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3mmM8Vas3PzP351MScNJpi
Qobuz:
Comment Qobuz s’impose comme le “Hermès de la musique”
(How Qobuz has established itself as the “Hermès of music” - article in French)
https://www.forbes.fr/business/comment-qobuz-simpose-comme-le-hermes-de-la-musique/
#qobuz #music #streaming #EuropeanAlternatives #BuyEuropean #BuyFromEU
So if you're into dark atmospheric progressive rock, have a Qobuz subscription and want to have a listening peek at IQ's current tour setlist - there you go:
https://open.qobuz.com/playlist/31346340
It's based on the current average setlist as seen on https://www.setlist.fm/stats/average-setlist/iq-4bd6b33e.html?tour=13dda965
Maybe I can make it to their concert end of April. Would be appropriate and heavy 'bout time; after 20 years no see...
Currently starting to dive into their recent opus "Dominion", acquired just today from https://iq-gep.bandcamp.com/album/dominion
Whats the best way to make a backup of / save my spotify lists?
I definitely want to leave asap, but I haven't decided yet what I want to use instead. Therefore it would be nice to have a backup that I can easily import to Qobuz, tidal etc. later.
I've been really impressed with Qobuz as a music streaming service.
Their recommendations are very, very different, and they promote a set list of albums of the week of some new and music I would never have found otherwise.
Also, they just launched their music commissions transparency here. They pay the most per stream compared to their competitors: https://community.qobuz.com/press-en/qobuz-unveils-its-average-payout-per-stream
If you're thinking about switching from Spotify, but aren't ready to go full media ownership, I think it's a good next step.
Hey peeps, since many of us are here as an alternative to big corporations, if you also care about the people who make #music, reminder that spotify barely (doesnt) pay small musicians, but you have alternatives like qobuz.com which are transparent and pay per-stream.
Some small data: in the last year #distrokid collected 4.03€ from my album #streaming
#Spotify - 0.00€
#Youtube - 0.26€
#AppleMusic - 0.34€
#Qobuz - 3.09€
+some little money from other #streamingplatforms
Just thought of sharing
I agree for his #piano works (Litany)
https://soundcloud.com/angie-rosselin-chan/toru-takemitsu-litany-in-memory-of-michael-vyner-1989
and I'm just listenig to the complete works for piano by Lukas Huisman on Piano Classics Label (available on #qobuz)
Pour ceux qui aime le genre, et qui ont Qobuz, une playlist publique Punk/New Wave éditée par Qobuz.
L’énergie est là ….
#MusicStreaming #musique #music #qobuz
Updated all my playlists. According to my diary, I do this more than 260 times (once a week on Friday).
https://pixelfed.social/p/HerrKaschke/809048237623940751
Listen here https://playlist.link/Miiplaylists or here https://playlist.link/miilofii
All playlists are available on #AppleMusic #Spotify #Tidal #SoundCloud #Deezer #Qobuz and #YouTube or #YoutubeMusic
Qobuz is the best.
Qobuz Releases Its Per-Stream Royalty Rate, and Industry First
#qobuz #MusicStreaming
https://www.billboard.com/pro/qobuz-releases-per-stream-royalty-rate-streaming-platform/
@alexlunaview Danke für den Tipp mit #Qobuz als #AppleMusicErsatz - den Dienst kannte ich noch nicht und da er meine „Nischen“-Titel hat UND in Europa beheimatet ist:
Tuesday’s music continues with more country blues played by Taj Mahal and Keb’ Mo Same style, two guitars, two voices oh, and the take it electric with drums and B-3. #blues #music #nowplaying #ChicagoStyle “Room on the Porch for Everyone” #Roon #Qobuz
Monday evening finds the Dismal Duo listening to Joe Henderson’s “Multiple “ recording of saxophone quartet postbop jazz. #postbop #saxophone #quartet #jazz
Hey, there’s no bass player! But 2 guitars.
Signed up for a free trial on Qobuz last week, to see if it’s a good replacement for Spotify. Here are my impressions so far.
General stuff:
* Signup was fast and easy. They didn’t ask for a lot of info to sign up (good!), but they required a birthday (bad!).
* The web interface and iOS app are both fine. Not incredible UX, but functional.
* It’s quite bare bones, feature wise. That suits me well, but some people might miss an equalizer.
(1/5)
Gave #Qobuz a chance to woo me with its recommendations & gotta say, while it didn't exactly blow my mind like LastFM or Rdio, it's far & away better than Tidal, Spotify et al, which give me the feeling that they're trying to push whatever stuff they make the most money on, whether tenuously connected to my taste or not.
Maybe it will get better as it eavesdrops on my habits & anway recommendations isn't a killer feature for me, but it does reinforce my decision to switch
I'm trying out Qobuz currently, and thought it'd be nice to have my old Spotify playlist backups from way back when I still had Spotify so I wrote a quick and dirty Python script to read the JSON and push it to Qobuz using minim, an API wrapper for various streaming services available in the cheese shop.
Works well enough, now listening to my old New Wave playlist.
https://www.headphonesty.com/2025/01/spotify-trump-brunch-apple-amazon-donate-inauguration/
Wow. Even my beloved #spotify .. Thus now I am in search of a new music provider to #unplugtrump .. maybe #qobuz ?