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I moved to Qobuz. It costs a little more but that is something you have to accept for the ethical choice.

Unfortunately it’s not working for me. Many of my songs/libraries have not moved over well, can’t be found or have changed version etc.

The bigger issues for me are the terrible CarPlay functions of the app. It’s non existent. If I am travelling I need to see and search fast and easy.
And I continually have to select Bluetooth when playing music, if the app drops out or I lose connection I can’t just pop on my phone and again select Bluetooth. It needs to recognise CarPlay and just switch.

Finally I it drops out and jumps a lot for me. Interruptions every 10 songs or so just isn’t great.

I wish it would have worked but it didn’t.
I’m moving away from music streaming.

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Postmortal_Pop@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Personally I moved back to mp3, so much less hassle and if you don’t mind the high seas it’s super easy to rip off Spotify.

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- tux0r@feddit.org ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  I recommend Opus as the lossy audio format.
  
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  - bufalo1973@piefed.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    And ogg?
    
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- Cherry@piefed.social ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  I love sailing.
  
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octopus_ink@slrpnk.net ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
I recently started using Qobuz also. I was impressed that there are Linux apps, including a (3rd party) downloader that lets me download FLAC. (Otherwise I think you need to use their app in Windows or Mac to download FLAC - the web downloader only let me grab MP3.)

However, although I have loved it, my use case is different than yours, so not really apples to apples. I have a media server running in a VPS, so ethical downloads are my primary requirement. For Download --> Self-host --> Self-stream they are a perfect fit, IMO, though I’m sure there are others.

I like it because I’m not buying music from Amazon, or Spotify, and that it’s DRM free, primarily. I will also buy from Bandcamp sometimes. (To be fair, some amazon music can also be downloaded DRM free, but I think anyone reading this probably already knows that. I can’t remember if FLACs were available to me never or rarely, because I didn’t use Amazon music much.)

Despite that, I’m watching this thread with interest, because I’m certainly open to other options.

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jodanlime@midwest.social ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
I’ve been using Qobuz for a few years. I’m on android and the car app is fine, but not amazing. I haven’t had any drop outs but I choose CD quality on cell service and download a lot of my favorite albums.

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ordnance_qf_17_pounder@reddthat.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Qobuz is missing so much music for me. Liking too many obscure artists is a curse.

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