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I don't fucking want "infinite personalized music", I want music conceptualized, created, and played by human beings.
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this post was submitted on 01 Oct 2026
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Hey, a fellow Qobuz enjoyer! We seem to be semi-rare. I've also found that some bands/artists sell directly on their website, which is pretty nifty.
MAJOR WARNING: 100% DEFINITELY NEVER scrape video sites (such as YouTube) for music using ILLEGAL PIRACY TOOLS like "yt-dlp", or "torrent" high-quality (flac) collections of music from ILLEGAL and EVIL piracy websites. Piracy is not a victimless crime; after all, YOU WOULDN'T STEAL A CAR, would you?
Psst! Bandcamp Friday's soon :3
Nah, honestly, I don't scrape anything. I can afford myself the luxury of paying artists for music I enjoy enough to get a proper digital copy in lossless quality and without DRM nonsense.
I have to say, I am probably not the typical Qobuz customer. Their recommendations really do not align with my taste in music ... at all. I am probably not distinguished enough. But they do sell lossless music and are among the better paying platforms, while having a pretty wide library, also the are among the more restrictive when it comes to AI slop (but not nearly as restrictive as I would want them to be). Interestingly I listen mostly to local music now I bought among others from them, rather than to their streaming service. I might not extend the subscription beyond this year, but I might continue to buy from them. Let's see.
I'm honestly probably dropping my subscription soon in favour of purchasing my own files. It doesn't take long to amass a fairly large collection. Scraping is good in cases where a release is unavailable elsewhere, and also... I'm not exactly made of money. Bigger artists can forgive me.