New Year's Day concert problem

Dear David,

Ask for your money back.

This year's concert was very good, but not on the level of the 1979 concert with Willi Boskowsky [on Decca CD] or the Carlos Kleiber 1989 one on CBS.

I reckon each year's concert should be listened to live [or now on the suitable delayed radio stream on demand - iPlayer in the UK] and if it is totally remarkable such as the two I mention, then buy the physical CD and enjoy for the rest of you life ...

Quobus is total crap in my hard earned experience. Good sound and everything else is sh-te. Quotes will shortly be gone because of the sh-te service.

ATB from George

PS: The BBC iPlayer still has it available with a simple search. Mostly one listen does for these concerts and this is certainly in that class.

Well George, Happy new year!

My Qobuz experience up to now has been pretty good. Hence my starting point, has any Naimee had the same experience as myself with this download?

As to whether this years performance is better or worse than 1979, that's likely to be very difficult to judge. How many Hi Def (and it is 24 bit I want) are available from other years?

In the event that I do want a refund from Qobuz,how do I go about it? Anyone got one, and how?

+1 on 1989, we listened to it this very afternoon with a big pot of tea. We enjoyed watching 2015 on BBC 4, and while it was most enjoyable, there is something very special about the energy in 1989s concert.

We try every year to get tickets in the ballot, but unfortunately no luck.

Thanks Greg, and for the cuppa, etc. But any answer to my question?

Well my reco' is don't worry too much about 1.1,15 and get the CD of 1989!

And pay more attention on New Year's Day 2016, as it might be the best yet!

ATB from George

David if you use Dropbox and want to put the file there, I will load it onto my uServe and see if I can figure out what's up.  My email is in my profile here.

Perhaps I was being too subtle. Get a refund on 2015 and buy 1989 instead. 2015 being in 24 bit doesn't  make it a better performance.

I've also bought the album from Qobuz. No problems here. However I have a Synology and not a US. For my download I chose the 24/96 FLAC file format and it came as a single uncompressed TAR file, with the FLAC files inside. I unpacked the TAR file and moved the resulting FLAC files to my NAS, triggered a rescan of the minimserver and then they appeared in the Music library. 

Bart, I am not a dropboxer, but I will look into it.

Jfrizen, I suspect that the problem could be Nstream related. I notice that the 'Artist' field in the metadata is enormous. Maybe it has breached some internal Nstream rule?

My download is 96/24 Flac, so nothing unusual there. I don't like that I had to download it as a Zip file, but I've done this lots of times before, since Qobuz abandoned their perfectly good downloader. Anyone know why they did this?

In 200 downloads, I haven't had this problem. V. Frustrating!!

Email / other options are OK too.  Happy to play with the file(s) at home one evening and let you know what I make of them!

Thanks Bart. I think it may be too big to email.

I am going to do the download again, and then reduce the 'artist' field.

If that fails I will look at dropbox, or I could snail mail it to you on a USB?

David

Well..., I edited the artist field and reduced the length significantly, and it worked!

You learn something new every day with this hobby!

Thanks to all who contributed.