sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
The article mentions streaming, but anyone know how much of purchases go to the artist? I’m not interested in streaming, but their store looks attractive.
Also, can I redownload the music later? Or is it a one and done deal? Just thinking about backups.
CatZoomies@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I only can answer your second question. You can redownload your purchases at any time. Music will remain in your library forever until one day licensing will take it away from you.
Qobuz has been very transparent - when you complete a purchase, they warn and recommend you to download it as soon as you can because license revocation can remove that music from your account. They’re my preferred platform for buying music.
Cyber@feddit.uk 2 weeks ago
I purchase from Bandcamp, should I be looking to move over?
CatZoomies@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Not necessarily. If you can find on Bandcamp, it’s probably best to buy from there since I heard more money goes to the artists. I buy from wherever I can find the music, and thus I’ll cycle between Bandcamp or HDTracks if I can’t find it on Qobuz.
Separately I dislike how Bandcamp embeds their name in the metadata of the tracks you buy, but it’s trivial to remove it. Just rubs me the wrong way, so most of the times if songs are on Qobuz I buy it there since they don’t do that.
Cyber@feddit.uk 1 week ago
Everything I get usually has it’s metadata updated / overwritten by Musicbrainz anyway
But, yeah, it’s slow going if you’re in a niche…
I’ve created / updated a few albums in there and it takes a few minutes to get it all done, but there’s some satisfaction in giving back
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Awesome, thanks!
I’ll certainly put it on multiple devices (phone, desktop, NAS), but probably won’t bother with offsite backups since that gets expensive.