I've recently come an extremely interesting French webite called Qobuz after it was enthusiastically recommended by friends. It has a premium subscription streaming at 320kbps (not sure of the format) and lossless FLAC, with clients for android, ipad, iphone, windows and Macos, plus a web player. The windows desktop player has built in support for windows kernel, ASIO. ASIO4ALL and WASAPI.
http://www.qobuz.com/ Also registering on the site enables you to download albums in 24/96, 16/44.1, 320 kbps mp3 at fairly reasonable prices - very reasonable indeed compared to download prices on the Linn website. Not only that but they appear, from time to time, to have extremely cheap multi-disc set downloads - my interest in in classical and there have recently been Peter Hurford's Complete Bach Organ Works (17CDs) and Aeolian Quartet's complete Haydn String Quartets (22CDs), both for 7 Euros. (Sadly I registered too late to take advantage of those offers.) The drawbacks are: (a) The website is in French, so Google Translate is a boon. Even so, for non-French speakers it is a bit of a hassle having to constantly refer to Google (or Bing) translate. Though I understand they have plans to role the site out across europe, so that will probably solve the language problem. (b) After you register from the UK you get a message that "This article is not available in your country yet (UNITED KINGDOM)" when you try to purchase or stream anything. However, you can e-mail them via there web option requesting access and this seems to always be granted (at least for people in the UK). (c) The premium streaming service isn't exactly cheap If this website proves as good at it seems it would be wonderful if some helpful developer created a plugin for Squeezebox!!! (The Qobuz developers seem very tech savy so I guess they would be happy to provide the necessary guidance.) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ JohnB's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=31553 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=97058 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
