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Qobuz roon11/12/2023 ![]() ![]() The update revitalizes the BluOS Controller app experience with several improvements – a redesign of the user interface, better navigation, and improved search functionality, to deliver a more personalized way to play and control music across multiple zones. ![]() Robert Silva and Chris Boylan will be reporting back from the show with their initial impressions of the new mobile version of the platform. Lenbrook will be offering a preview of BluOS 4.0 at CEDIA 2023 in Denver at Booth #3516. If it takes more than 20 minutes to setup access to all of your streaming platforms, integrate Roon if you utilize that platform, connect your digital hub to your home network and multi-room wireless loudspeakers - there is something seriously wrong with the software.īluOS has not always had the slickest interface but I’ve managed to use it successfully at home and work for almost 4 years integrating TIDAL, Qobuz, Spotify, and Roon proved to be a mixed bag from the perspective of slower than ideal performance, but the platform is robust and has never derailed any review of NAD, PSB, Cyrus Audio, DALI, or Bluesound components and wireless loudspeakers under review.īut what has become clear to those of us who use BluOS on a daily basis is that the platform needs an interface update, easier search, and faster performance.Īll of that is coming in mid-October, although it was previously due out earlier this year. Sonos has proven that the software experience is actually more important than the hardware for most consumers and it is clear that Lenbrook (NAD, DALI, PSB and Bluesound), Naim, WiiM Audio, and Cambridge Audio have come to that realization as well. Just thoughts for discussion.Hardware is only as good as the software that runs it and there is no question that some of the platforms currently running network streamers and wireless loudspeakers are sorely lacking.Ī fancy and slick interface (Sonos) might get you inside the club, but when search features are antiquated, multi-room system setup takes much longer than it should, and the damn thing freezes on a daily basis - the hardware becomes nothing more than an expensive piece of furniture gathering dust. This doesn’t make anybody greedy, it’s just the nature of business. Qobuz may be accepting this loss of revenue for the near term while they break into the market, but it would not be surprising to see their payments to artist decrease as they acquire more customers. It may also be that the artists (or their publishers) are not allowing Qobuz to have streaming rights unless they pay a certain minimum per year, and since they have relatively low streaming numbers this necessitates a higher price per stream given to the artist, and lower profits for Qobuz. They say that it is because they want to support the artists, and this may be true, but it may be more complicated than that. We don’t know the real reason Qobuz is (or was) paying more per stream to the artist. ![]() So it is entirely possible that artists are making more money with Spotify, and Qobuz may be paying artists more per stream because they have to in order to purchase streaming rights. Spotify distributes so many more streams than Qobuz, and the overall payments to the artists are multiplied by the number of times the track is streamed. ![]() If qobuz were the size of spotify I’m not sure it would pay artists more. ![]()
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