Streaming: Presto vs Idagio vs Naxos Music Library

[Madiel]

Well, a playlist has more permanence and takes more effort. I'm talking about a much more casual endeavor. Say I come back from lunch, open the streamer, and see two albums I want to hear. Open both, one in this tab one in another, listen to the first, close it, listen to the second, close it. Much less effort than opening both, adding them to a playlist, opening a playlist, scrolling through all the other albums I've impulse-added in the same way*, listening to them, and then perhaps deleting them from the playlist or not.

*for example, my playlist for the CPO Diary thread has 67 albums...this causes philosophical questions...should I create a second playlist called CPO Things I Liked for the albums I want to listen to again someday, so that the first one remains a hopper for things not yet tried?

No, I don't mean a permanent playlist. Maybe Qobuz is different, but the things I use for both music and podcasts generally have some sort of "play this next" option.

Edit: I think often it's called a "queue " rather than a playlist.

[AnotherSpin]

Qobuz has launched a new feature — Qobuz Connect. This means you can now use the Qobuz app as a remote to control music directly on compatible audio devices. It's simple — no Bluetooth, no third-party apps, just the Qobuz app and your favorite gear. You get the best sound quality, up to 24-bit/192kHz, and easy, smooth control. A great service just got even better.

[ChamberNut]

Qobuz just redesigned their in-browser platform. Now if you open multiple albums in multiple tabs, and press play on one album, it will play that album in all your tabs, at slightly different start times.

For example. I opened a tab with the new two-piano album from Alpha (Lukas Geniusas and Anna Geniushene playing American duos). Then I opened a second tab with the music I want to listen to after that, of 1700s chamber music. Then I went back to tab #1 and pressed play. The music was surprisingly loud, so I cranked down the volume. When it moved to track 2, however, it sounded like there was excessive reverb, an echo effect. Then I learned why..the second tab was also playing the same music! It had been perfectly synced for track 1, but track 2 loaded a half-second later and created the echo.

I replicated this by opening five different albums in different tabs, pressing play on one, and getting the chaos of five different versions of the same track playing at slightly different times!

This is the kind of design "feature" bug that could cause me to cancel, and quickly.

Brian, you've just uncovered a gold mine. Now you need to develop a layering playlist! Hmm, which works could sound really interesting with this splicing. I'm thinking Glass.

[Brian]

No, I don't mean a permanent playlist. Maybe Qobuz is different, but the things I use for both music and podcasts generally have some sort of "play this next" option.

Edit: I think often it's called a "queue " rather than a playlist.

There were two options, "add to queue" and "play this next." First up, I tried clicking on several albums and hitting "add to queue." Then I finished off the first album, looked at my queue...and it was empty. 

Gonna try "play this next" next...

[Madiel]

There were two options, "add to queue" and "play this next." First up, I tried clicking on several albums and hitting "add to queue." Then I finished off the first album, looked at my queue...and it was empty. 

Gonna try "play this next" next...

Were you trying to do that in one tab? Not across 5 tabs, because whatever bug you've got... you wanna try doing it in one tab.

[Der lächelnde Schatten]

I signed up for a free trial of Presto Classical today and I'm already unsubscribed. I guess this tells you how much I liked it.

It did give me a chance to listen to some Krenek, though, which is something I had been meaning to do for quite some time. I don't own much of his music in my collection. But on the recommendation of @Karl Henning I listened to the work Symphonic Elegy and rather enjoyed it.