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These folks will actually allow you to stream and/or buy and download at high quality for offline use.

They have gift cards too! https://www.qobuz.com/ca-en/offer-qobuz

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[–] nimble@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 3 days ago

I can recommend them. Used to buy from bandcamp but i like that qobuz shows the quality of music they have available before you buy

[–] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 6 points 3 days ago

It's great. I'm sourcing music from them for a DJ set at the moment. 😄

[–] skozzii@lemmy.ca 5 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I've been using the for a few years now and it's great high quality music. The only downside is you don't get all the remix and weird stuff you might find on spotify but it has all the officially released stuff.

[–] ballsdeepsoup@lemmy.ca 2 points 3 days ago

Can you find the remixes on YouTube? Then use an Adblocker like unlock Origin?

[–] howrar@lemmy.ca 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

How is their recommendation system?

[–] panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 4 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

It’s okay

They have one generated weekly playlist (every Friday) and after several weeks it matches my tastes very well and I discover new music through it.

On their mobile apps you can create “radio stations” from a song which is comparable to the same feature on Apple Music. That does not fully work on desktop.

On desktop you can set it to keep playing after your current playlist is done and it goes into recommendation mode based on (I think) the last song you heard.

They mostly have more manually curated playlists, the themed ones can be truly terrible (like their spring cleaning playlist that was just songs with cleaning in their title), but the rest and artist based “listening with” ones are great.

You won’t find user generated playlists, and I haven’t figured out if you can easily import them — there are third party apps for that but I never tried them.

Oh, they also show similar artists on album and artist pages, those are generally pretty good.

[–] garbagebagel@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

I've been hoping to switch from spotify for a while now so I think I'll give this a try. Does it have podcasts though or can anyone recommend a better company for podcasts? I know most of the time you can listen on the podcast's publisher or website, but I'm just hoping for something centralized.

Edit: just found AntennaPod today and have only been using it a couple of hours but so far its great, open-source, a ton of features, and every one of the podcasts I listen to regularly is on it. Pretty promising so far!

[–] jastyty@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

No podcasts on qobuz.

[–] ballsdeepsoup@lemmy.ca 0 points 2 days ago

I don't know, but at least they're not paying high $$$ to Joe Rogan

[–] zhenbo_endle@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I like their passion with Hi-Res, but 10cad/mo is more than I could afford. I’m using stingray music. This Quebec company provides free music radio with advertisements.

[–] ballsdeepsoup@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 day ago

Their family plan might suit you better if you can split among 5 others.

[–] panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 1 points 3 days ago

It works well but their macOS app is an awful web wrapper.

I like their playlists, and my weekly playlist has gotten spot on for my tastes