Well, no. It can go direct to the desktop app via USB or use a different front end though.
Oh just cock off you enabling twat 
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Youāve been beautifully manoeuvred there. Give in to the inevitable.
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Anyhow, Iāve signed up for the free trial.
It will be instructive to see how many times I feel the urge to buy an HD album in the next month, and how much I would have āsavedā.
Thanks chaps.
whatās Qobuz like for hip hop, rap, grime, drum n bass, reggae, dance hall, drill, gangsta etc?
I would hope, NONE!!
Iām signing up, always pissed me off I couldnāt get rammstein on tidal.
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havenāt we been here before ?
Glitch in the matrix
I have no clue. Sometimes some of those genres come up on their recommendations, but I canāt tell you how broad their catalogue is.
it why I ditched Tidal. For broader listening it was OK, but in the end I found myself using it less and less
why?
I didnāt think the streaming subscriptions force fed you stuff you stuff you didnāt want to listen to?
Wife has found it, plundered the rock & pop playlists and started shouting āwho the fuck is Steven Wilson and why is he all over this?ā.
I told her that people who like hi-fi like Steven Wilson.
Eh up, weāre onto Sonic Youth now.
Cheating bastards, they list all the albums but as samples so you canāt hear the whole song or download them .
Thatāll be down to Rammstein surely?
Well yes, apparently Spotify exclusive 
But it looked like you could get it before I started the free trail. Then it was obvious after logging in that it wasnāt available. Meh
These are huge genres in their own right so thereās no quick answer. As noted, by a few of us, across big swathes of material, the Qobuz catalogue mirrors Tidal (although with no MQA and better high res if you like that sort of thing). Being French, Qobuz has certain bits of French electronica (proceeding off into DnB and the like) that Tidal doesnāt but Tidal does better at Scandinavian and Northern European artists.
Ultimately, Spotify still has stuff that nobody else does as it has a simpler listing system for unsigned artists to get content on so if your oeuvre is an angry gentleman from Balham yelling in his bedroom about knife culture, thatās going to be best represented there.
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I use both Tidal and Spotify; covers 95% of what I listen to.
I donāt use Qobuz, as I donāt listen to Classical / Trad Jazz and Iām not overly fussed about hi-res.
I want the quality as itās my primary source, so Iām anti Spotify. Just annoyed I canāt get everything in one app.
First world problems
It is annoying though. Iām still buying CDs of albums I like because the SQ of Spotify in my system is crap (streaming through a Google Chrome Audio device, so not sure if Iād get better results if I used a Lumin-esque streamer and DAC).
However Spotify has the breadth of catalogue I want, and I donāt want to be paying for two separate subscription services, to use the higher quality audio for those albums Tidal /Qobuz have.
Iād love to be rid of my CDs, donāt have the space for them anymore, but canāt. I know I can rip them, but with about 1-2000, I just donāt have the time to do it.