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Is there any interest in using this thread to keep track of rare or out-of-print titles that are now available?
Good idea, Onya. It would be useful to have latest info in one place.
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I bought a few titles from Qobuz, excellent quality and also service. My preferred streaming service and place to buy downloads. I would never buy DRM coded files that require special apps. I don’t even listen to music on a computer.
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They have quite a few OOP titles from Varese Sarabande and Quartet Records among others.
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I bought a few titles from Qobuz, excellent quality and also service. My preferred streaming service and place to buy downloads. I would never buy DRM coded files that require special apps. I don’t even listen to music on a computer.
Do you think it is safe to assume that when they say "CD quality, 16 bit, 44.1 kHz," it is truly this and not simply bumped up from mp3 resolution? I ask because they sell a number of albums that are otherwise available only as mp3s.
I think it is fairly safe to say that Qobuz does not upsample. Qobuz is very invested in establishing itself as a go to place for high quality music and caters especially to jazz and classical music lovers. They receive the files they sell directly from the publishers, and if Deutsche Grammophon presents something as CD sound or higher, it is in my opinion legit.
However, that does not prevent some lesser "labels" to provide Qobuz with upsampled files; there is no 100% guarantee. But since this could easily be found out, it would be risky for the legitimate labels (and unceccessary, as they usually have the "real deal") to risk loosing the trust of their customers.
Also, if the source material is poor -- which it sometimes is, especially when it comes to old film score recordings -- obviously, Qobuz files can't change that. Like, some releases (like the Project 3 release of BANDOLERO! or the Intrada release of SILENT RUNNING etc.) were originally mastered from vinyl, so even a high-res file from that would still sound exactly like it came from an LP. Because it did.
Last year, I bought a bunch of Ondine classical recordings from them, as they had a sale on that label, and all the files were actual high-resolution files.
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I see now the problem with 7digital is it's only FLAC, which must have been where I was getting the incompatibility with iTunes. Though I would have sworn I read somethign to the effect of needing a specific app- but maybe that was simply offered as the solution to accessing FLAC on a Mac?
I know there are supposed to be much better file management/library applications out there, but most of what I have now is in ALAC and I don't really feel like installing more stuff than I need or converting a whole library when it works fine as it is.
HDtracks offers both ALAc and FLAC and it looks like Qobuz does too, so I guess I'm good to go for now.
Yes, Qobuz offers both ALAC and FLAC.
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