Get better sound quality and keep your Spotify music
Tired of waiting for Spotify hi-fi quality tier? Wanna try out music streaming in (much) better quality? Europe has great alternatives if you live in Qobuz, Tidal, Amazon Music or Deezer country.
Wait what? Which country?
You can get Qobuz subscription in the following European countries:
There is more: if you subscribed in other countries like USA, Canada, Mexico, Brasil, Argentina, New Zealand, Australia, Japan, Chile, Colombia and moved to Europe nothings stops you for using Qobuz and extending your subscription at your new place of residence. Note that you will still keep country-specific access to music according to your initial account locale.
For Tidal the list of countries is somewhat more extensive:
Again, if you subscribed in another country, for example USA, Canada, South Africa, Israel, Singapore, and others, you can continue using Tidal if you move to Europe.
Amazon Music Unlimited tier is also available in the EU and United Kingdom, including:
Your account is linked to your initial country of residence and formally can not be moved to another country, you need to cancel one subscription and start another.
Deezer is well supported in Europe and is available in
You can freely move from country to country and keep your Deezer subscription. Moreover, this service offers a unique country selector option, which is lacking in other services. So if you live in UK for instance, but are more interested in Romanian pop music, you can switch country selector in your account options to Romania.
What happens to My precious Spotify playlists?
You won’t be the first person to ask this question. Quite a few online services offer to transfer playlists from one type of music subscription to another. Generally speaking most of them want to charge a monthly or one-off fee for larger amounts of music. In most cases you don’t have to pay for a limited number of tracks. There are also some websites or software which are free to use.
Soundiiz and Qobuz have a free offer for Qobuz subscribers who want to transfer (or sync) playlists from Spotify for free. Enter Soundiiz website via this direct link or insert coupon code HELLOQOBUZ in a coupon box. You need to login to both of your accounts, Qobuz and Spotify, via Soundiiz. Soundiiz offers playlist and ‘favourites’ migration with options to select playlists, albums, artists and tracks or just ‘grab everything’.
Soundiiz can also do migration within Tidal, Deezer, Apple Music and many other services. Refer to their website for pricing and additional info.
Tidal recommends a similar website, TuneMyMusic, for moving music saved in other services to Tidal. There is a fee for transfers which excess a certain amount of tracks (currently 500) and automatic syncing of playlists. Free usage also entitles to export playlist as TXT or CSV file which can be later imported into Tidal. For very large databases you can split playlists into several CSV files not exceeding 500 tracks thus moving them free of charge. Naturally, TuneMyMusic works within other than Tidal music subscriptions: Spotify, Qobuz, Deezer etc.
There are also free apps (FreeYourMusic), including open source (search github). You may already know that playlist transfer is basically re-assigning links to streaming music and if a track is not available at the destination service, it won't be transferred.
There is no argument that music streaming should be in HD quality
MGY definitely recommends using High Definition music subscriptions for streaming into your hi-fi stereo. Why compromise on sound quality when the cost of subscription is so affordable?
Cary Audio family of digital network players (DMS) offer mobile-device-agnostic streaming control via TIDAL Connect. For Qobuz Cary Audio is coming with an elegant solution very soon, just wait for Munich High End 2025 in May for a surprise announcement!
Many other ways of delivering music can be controlled via Cary Streamer 2.0 app or Roon. Enjoy digital music streaming at its best with Cary Audio!
