Darko article https://darko.audio/2019/06/freshly-squeezed-streaming/
Is that only on v8? Have just installed LMS v8 on the Pi and the SBT wonât connect to it, for some reason it says the LMS version is too old.
Whatâs the name of the plugin?
Online Music Library Integration. Only on v8.
Just installed v8 and this time the SBT connected ok.
Plugin installed but only seems to support Tidal & Spotify
The Qobuz change whereby they reduced the price from ÂŁ20 to ÂŁ15 and included hi-res was really annoying me.
I use the Qobuz windows app, which plays to JRiver via their WDM, basically a virtual sound card. This is necessary to host the digital crossover. Unfortunately it doesnât switch sample rates well - while it doesnât BSOD as it used to do a few years ago (with Tidal, but the same thing), it was very glitchy and stuttery and completely unlistenable.
My solution was to limit Qobuz to 44.1k. This was fine when I wasnât paying for hi-res, but now I am it annoys me. Even though itâs cheaper.
After speaking to @edd9000, I reckoned that I could get it all upsampled to one rate, maybe 88.2k or even 176.4k, and then run all the DSP at that rate. However, this would not be possible using the Qobuz app - I would need a player that can run a SOX upsampler.
So I dusted off the virtual Squeezebox player, Squeezelite-X. This is a cool program that basically emulates a Squeezebox player - you control it via the web interface or phone. It can upsample via SOX, so everything hitting JRiver would be the same sample rate.
Before I started configuring the SOX plug-in I tried playing Qobuz. And it all just worked. No glitches, no stuttering, no sonic artefacts at all. Play at any sample rate, JRiver would flick over and it would play perfectly.
I have no explanation for this. But Iâm rather pleased.
Strange man speak in hieroglyphics
Wot u talkin bout Lewis?
tl;dr
Thread necro time.
Iâm quite seriously considering the really rather spendy âStudio Sublimeâ
ÂŁ250 a year, so ÂŁ21 a month, for HD streaming and 30%-60% of HD downloads. I actually buy quite a lot of music and prefer to buy HD.
Currently I pay the standard ÂŁ120 a year for Spotify. And Daniel Ek is a cock which doesnât help.
So, does anyone have an opinion on the Qobuz catalogue or the app for Android?
I still think Qobuz is great. Iâm totally over âowningâ music, so I just stream. Itâs ÂŁ15 per month for HD.
The app is fine as well. You can download for offline play at whatever resolution you like, which is good.
Generally, it just works, and very well at that. The catalogue is good for me, although I get the impression that your musical taste is not that close to mine, so get a trial first!
I recently did that big migration from Tidal to Qobuz and was surprised how much the Qobuz library has improved in the last 18 months. Out of 1300 albums, I only lost about 2%.
I donât use the apps cos Roon. The only thing I find a downgrade is their genre filters. They lump âcountry, folk and bluesâ together (WTF?) so browsing new releases is sometimes a bit arse, but generally very happy and itâs cheaper than Tidal.
Like Mark I moved from Tidal to Qobuz and would endorse the catalogue improvement. I have the Sublime and buy a few hi res albums - they are then playable at the higher rates when streaming which is nice, but not necessary. I am finding the stream quality direct from the app to be very good, compared with via Roon, although my main set up isnât Roon ready as such.
Mine is a little closer. I still run Qobuz and Tidal side by side in Roon. Itâs more common to find something is Tidal only than the other way around (but not unheard of) but the fundamentals are all now basically identical.
I felt break even point for Sublime+ was buying about 150-200 albums though⌠I couldnât justify that tbh.
I think I must have used significantly different Man Maths.
I came up with a figure of ~25 albums per year for it to be worthwhile.
Looking at it again (sober), yes. Itâs a ÂŁ100 difference so a smaller number more inline without yours Donât forget though, the discount on purchases only applies to high res so if itâs âonlyâ in lossless (or conversely, in a resolution above 24/48 which AFAIK you canât play), you donât see a saving.
This being said- as a practising twat- if you had a shortfall, thereâs things Iâd pay you for.
Indeed. And I deliberately buy a lot of stuff on Bandcamp. Partly to support artists more directly and partly because most new stuff on there is 24 bit anyway.
Btw in case it matters, you canât stream in 24/48 unless that is the max available (and it often is)
These are the options in the app:
There is no option to restrict it to 24/48 is a 24/96 is available. I donât know what your system will do with a 24/96 stream.
I do know that buying that shiny Hugo2 with itâs heroically pointless 24/768 sample rate handling on USB will negate this issue entirely.
Wonât help if youâre feeding it from a Sonos that only does 24/48