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.
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.