What the hell. So kill the one player working on Linux whilst offering no alternatives, especially as this player was not gaining any money? Qobuz had nothing to lose here, but now they’ve lost my subscription.
This is a bummer, I really like Qobuz but do not like using the web player, which doesn’t give me native controls or an easy workflow.
The Qobuz Mac client is kind of a hot mess, and Linux is missing. It would be nice if they’d hire passionate devs like this to work on improving the situation. I’m sure it would be a great synergy.
That’s what baffles me in this kind of situation. The dev basically did their job for them, and now they’re leaving happy paying Linux subscribers out in the cold. Just hire the clearly passionate and talented developer and make the product offering that much better!
Now when I look for Qobuz apps for Linux, all I’m seeing are weird little download utilities to essentially steal music from the service. Gabe Newell sure had it right.
Yup, cool that this can just exist https://github.com/vitiko98/qobuz-dl
I guess qbz got too many users and visibility that it started to show in some meeting.
I’m curious what it’ll mean for this one: https://openrepos.net/content/munkstolen/fiat-pons-native-qobuz-client
Says it’s built on a qbz-qobuz rust library, so if that’s from the same qbz developer and the library got pulled, it’ll make things difficult moving forward for them.
I thought Qobuz was cool
Does somebody still have it cloned? If it’s FOSS, we can just bring it back up, right? 😢
There were still a couple of up-to-date repos out there as of yesterday. They may have all been scrubbed by now.
Okay then, wow. Glad I didn’t go through with my transition from Spotify to Qobuz. Fuck those guys. Both of them actually, but Spotify has more of the music I require. 🤷♂️ What’s a guy to do.
What even happened? The dev didn’t really explain the reasoning behind this decision, just that it happened.