I already transferred to Qobuz, but feels weird that they threaten people leaving with losing their libraries.

This would suck for people who only wish to temporarily cancel.

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    They rely on you thinking this, it’s a blackmail tactic. Use a service to export all the libraries out.

    Good luck with Qobuz. I moved. I found it average unfortunately due to clunky interface, drop outs and it drops my Bluetooth all the time. I use my music a lot in the car I can’t keep stopping to deal with this stuff.

    I’m gonna start self hosting.

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      I bounced from Spotify to Qobuz to Tidal. Spotify is so unethical I had to leave. Qobuz was missing a significant portion of my library and the interface had too many issues. I was happy on Tidal for a while, then I found out they dropped about 10% of the music from my favorites list without telling me or keeping a record of what songs were missing.

      Can’t really talk about it on Lemmy though because the self-hosting crowd is very aggressive here, and “I don’t want to play music I downloaded because constant new music discovery is important to me” is an unacceptable answer.

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        Yeh I dropped Spotify for the same reason. I am trying to support the non racist and non greedy options.

        I am moving to self host but my libraries are old school. I listen to set playlists. I’ll miss just being able to pick a random song.

        It’s a pity there isn’t a decent alternative out there. Good luck with your search.

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      I have used Hezel for a while now to backup and Soundiiz to transfer to Qobuz. I am not too fussed about it either if I were to lose it. It is just sad to see some megacorp going so low as to use these threathening tactics.

      Qobuz is definitely not as a refined app as Apple Music. I will stick with them as they have announced some improvements to the app, and hopefully they will increase their team going forward.

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      I’m pretty sure the music software wouldn’t be related to the Bluetooth connection dropping.

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        There two issue. One with drop outs when I am out and about. That’s an app issue. It just stops. No reason.

        The second is connecting to Bluetooth in the first place. I have to specify over and over where to play my music. Even then it often does not work and I have to restart the app.

        When the two issues combine and your driving it’s not great.