In Reply to: What PAR said.... posted by Ivan303 on February 27, 2017 at 07:18:32:
" It would be QOBUZ, even with it's new software which I do not like as much, and the fact that the classical catalog changes as to what can be streamed and what is just there for 30 second samples because they want to sell you the down-load. :-( "
I suspect that it isn't necessarily Qobuz that choose the recordings to be available only as 30 sec "taster" tracks, but the record company which is only prepared to license some new releases for streaming upon this basis. After all the strategy does seem to affect only certain labels and even then inconsistently.
Talking of the certain labels, one of the offenders is Chandos but recently they seem to have been less minded to do this. I notice that two of their new releases that I would expect them to consider as "major" in that they have also bothered to put them out as SACDs, are available to stream in full. I am referring to RVW, Job a Masque for Dancing/Symph 9 and Holst Planets/Strauss Also Sprach Zarathustra. Both recordings are astounding or astounding in part IMO. Enough to make me shell out the price to ensure that I have a permanent copy. I may put something about them on the Music forum.
I am sure that you may well like the new player once you become accustomed. Of course otherwise we may just not share tastes in this matter :-)
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Follow Ups
- RE: What PAR said.... - PAR 08:46:16 02/27/17 (6)
- It's a matter of $$$ with QOBUZ... - Ivan303 19:11:49 02/27/17 (5)
- RE: It's a matter of $$$ with QOBUZ... - PAR 02:10:33 02/28/17 (4)
- RE: It's a matter of $$$ with QOBUZ... - cawson@onetel.com 04:09:38 02/28/17 (3)
- RE: It's a matter of $$$ with QOBUZ... - PAR 05:03:51 02/28/17 (2)
- RE: It's a matter of $$$ with QOBUZ... - cawson@onetel.com 05:52:56 02/28/17 (1)
- RE: It's a matter of $$$ with QOBUZ... - PAR 06:58:03 02/28/17 (0)