Hi,

So, after doing all kinds of research I figured qobuz is the least evil streaming service and the only one I’d be willing to use.

However, after trying it, I realised that they don’t allow VPNs. Often it doesn’t recognize the IPs as a VPN, but for some servers it does.

So, since I could get locked out at any time, this isn’t a long-term solution for me.

I’m thinking of self-hosting. But then there’s no recommendations. And if I hear anything I like, I need to find the stuff as well, which is gonna be tricky the more obscure it is. I can’t afford to buy more than maybe two albums a month. And often it’s just individual songs I want.

Do I need to drop the luxury of recommendation radio and easy access to nearly every song I like?

  • hendrik@palaver.p3x.deEnglish
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    2 months ago

    Can’t you add some exception for the Qobuz app, and let it use your real IP address(/Circumvent the VPN.) I mean there is no anonymity with a music streaming provider anyway, after you logged in to your account, and they even have your credit card number…

    • TheFiddlesticksExperience@lemmy.worldOP
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      2 months ago

      I don’t think that’s a good idea when located in a country of high censorship and stuff.

      But thanks, I’ll have to think about it more, maybe that could work. Don’t even know if android really supports that, but yeah.

      • hendrik@palaver.p3x.deEnglish
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        2 months ago

        I mean I don’t know where you live… Could be a bad idea… Could be alright… Depends on your specific threat model. In theory, such data is supposed to be transport-encrypted. That means your internet provider can see there’s data packets exchanged between you, and an address range that belongs to Qobuz. But they shouldn’t be able to look inside of the stream.

        If you decide to dig down: I think the technical term is “split tunneling”. It’s supported in some VPN clients.

        (And I’d say, maybe complain to Qobuz, just for good measure. If enough people do it, maybe that’s some motivation for them to improve their service.)