Other headers are gateways to your playlists and favourite music, as well as purchased music and offline content.ĭisappointingly, while most services have now heavily moved to a discovery model that uses algorithms to recommend new music, Qobuz has barely dipped its toe in such personalisation. ‘Panoramas’ (features on particular artists and genres) and ‘The Taste of Qobuz’ (including Qobuzisimme: music that has received an award from Qobuz’s magazine team) also feature on the home page. Rather than having the left-hand side menu widely adopted by its rivals, Qobuz uses a top-bar menu, beneath which is a banner of featured content and several sections such as ‘new releases’ and ‘Qobuz playlists’.
The interface is a joy to navigate across the PC and mobile platforms, and an aesthetic leap above its rivals that nails the balance between space and content density. Our collective taste, though far-reaching, is by no means the rule, but it paints a picture. In fact, only once since January 2019 – 31 playlists ago – have all our 20 picks been available on Qobuz, with numbers ranging from a high of 19 in March to only 13 last April. New music seems a particular issue, but established records are missing, too: we put together a playlist of test tracks each month and Qobuz is always the service with the most gaps. While it's inconvenient to discover that the latest album or track by your favourite artist isn't available in hi-res on your chosen streaming service, it's downright annoying if it isn't available at all. On the flip side, however, we often find albums on Tidal, Spotify, Apple Music and Deezer that aren't available on Qobuz at all – which we would argue is a far bigger issue. Numbers rarely tell the whole story, but we regularly find hi-res albums on Qobuz that are available in only CD-quality on Tidal. Recent figures put the total number of hi-res tracks at over 2m, while Tidal claims 'only' over 1m. Qobuz offers an exceptional range of exclusive editorial content written by a team of experts, in addition to liner notes and a catalogue of more than 70 million titles.Qobuz's comparatively high price has always been partly justified by its exhaustive library of hi-res music (FLAC 24-bit up to 192kHz). Qobuz recently celebrated its second anniversary of HiRes streaming in the US. Qobuz was founded in Paris in 2007 and is available in 12 countries around the world, in Europe and in the United States. Qobuz’s addition of the Dark Mode feature across all its platforms ensures that the company is providing the best possible experience for its users, who can now customise their Qobuz experience even further when listening to music in the best sound quality. The latest mobile operating systems now support dark modes, while apps are increasingly offering this feature across all platforms. Users can also choose it simply for its aesthetics.
This helps users when scrolling in low light situations and to alleviate eye strain when looking at screens, especially when using apps before sleeping. Users can now activate Dark Mode in the Qobuz desktop app’s settings, and can toggle the theme between Dark Mode and Light Mode at any time.ĭark Mode is a popular setting that turns an app or screen from its usual colour profile into a dark version.
Dark Mode is already available on Qobuz’s Android and iOS apps for smartphones and tablets.
Qobuz unveils Dark Mode for its desktop apps and is available on MacOS and Windows according to a recent blog post by the HiRes music streaming and download service. Qobuz unveils Dark Mode for its desktop apps