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by JTyQZSnP3cQGa8B 938 days ago
Their FAQ says you can download again your purchases: https://help.qobuz.com/en/articles/10166-can-i-re-download-m...

The terms of services only say that "The offer to Download is currently unavailable in Latin American countries and in Portugal." It doesn’t give more details.

The store is confusing though. You can buy a "CD quality" album for $10 but there also is a "hi-fi 192" version for $20 without explaining what hi-fi is.

> Proxies and VPNs not allowed

No Qobuz for me it seems. They don’t want my money for some reason.
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herewulf 938 days ago
They also fairly recently changed things so you need to install a downloader app in order to download more than one album track at once. That's quite aggravating. I'm not installing some shitty app but there isn't a Linux version either, FWIW.

I have historically bought a lot of music, don't like MP3s, and don't want to collect CDs anymore that I just rip to digital. Qobuz and Bandcamp age the only services I know that offer FLAC.

I've mostly stuck to Bandcamp but Qobuz has quite a few releases that don't appear on Bandcamp (probably because of certain labels).

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joveian 937 days ago
Also they spam you (daily) even if you ask them not to. Might be the thing where you have to unsubscribe from the email even though your account settings told them not to send you email (I think it stopped after I did that, although who knows if it will start up again at some point).

7digital was the other one but of course they are also now owned by the same company that owns Bandcamp (and have the annoying regional restrictions, possibly Qobuz does as well). Hopefully they will get their act together. The lack of regional restrictions (at least in most cases) is one of the best parts of Bandcamp.

If you happen to be interested in classical music there are several that sell FLAC (not sure how good they are). I think there are some DJ focused stores that sell FLAC as well, although with limited selection I think.

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crtasm 937 days ago
> there isn't a Linux version

thankfully there are unofficial Qobuz downloaders for linux, have a browse on github.

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