Heads up for anyone wanting an instant Lou Reed collection at a bargain price!

Well, how can one say no? Anyone after it should note that it's only a bargain if bought from the download chart - if you search for it under the artist it's rather more expensive.

I just bit too! No real knowledge of Lou Reed's music (I know, I'm a Philistine!) but in the spirit of discovering new stuff, and the appreciation shown on this forum by some for his music, I thought I'd give it a go. Some single CDs cost this much!

Hungryhalibut posted:

Well, how can one say no? Anyone after it should note that it's only a bargain if bought from the download chart - if you search for it under the artist it's rather more expensive.

Is that so? I have a sign in to the French site as well as the UK one and it came up much more expensive in Euros, but in light of what you've said it might have been that I searched for it differently. Sounds like a possible oversight so I guess get it while you can!

Thanks for the heads up

14.9GB file downloading ..........

Had a look at the link above, offered hi res download for 13 stg but when clicked price change to €57, that's some exchange rate !!

It GBP13 and a bit.  Downloading 16Gb now.  Thank you Steeve for heads up!

Steeve posted:

http://www.qobuz.com/gb-en/alb...u-reed/0886445523829

You U.K. Guys sometimes have insane deals, congrats with your brexit....

Cbr600 posted:

Had a look at the link above, offered hi res download for 13 stg but when clicked price change to €57, that's some exchange rate !!

If I would buy it it would cost me 37 euros even via my French account. So it's beneficial to be a chap....

Doubtless this is why it's number 2 in the Qobuz download chart. There is no way a £100 album would normally be there. You'd think that sort of strange activity would be picked up pretty quickly. Anyway, it gives us 17 albums to trawl through to start the new year. 

Bert Schurink posted:

Steeve posted:

http://www.qobuz.com/gb-en/alb...u-reed/0886445523829

You U.K. Guys sometimes have insane deals, congrats with your brexit....

I'm not convinced that a few cheap albums entirely makes up for the downsides, but every little helps. 

Thanks for this - great deal - probably mispriced as for 1 album instead of 17!

So good I signed up for Qobuz and did my first download ... had some accessibility problems but is now ticking away nicely.

Thanks again, what a great thread

Allan

Good shout, it's worth getting just to have a high res copy of Metal Machine Music 

It's a good call,  but why didn't you check out this thread?

https://forums.naimaudio.com/to...-offer-thread?page=1

Gary Shaw posted:

It's a good call,  but why didn't you check out this thread?

https://forums.naimaudio.com/to...-offer-thread?page=1

I did see the Lou Reed set in that thread (for even less than it is now!) but as I was away for Christmas and not on my computer the 'offer' or maybe 'error' was not available anymore! It was nice to have a second chance!

Does anyone have any tips about Qobuz downloads (using a Mac)? I've had several attempts at a Tar download (whatever that is?) but the 16GB download is going to take about 8 hours, and consistently times out at around 6GB with no option to resume.

I've tried downloading individual tracks, but there's no metadata, not even album title! I've downloded the first album, and put it into the same folder system I use for other downloads, but my Unitiserve can't even see it.

Am I missing something obvious here? 

Use the Qobuz desktop. 

Hungryhalibut posted:

Use the Qobuz desktop. 

Thanks, I looked at that, but it seems you can only download MP3s and 16/44 with the desktop, and I've bought the Hi-res version.

I had the same problem. If you google qobuz mac downloader you'll find a link to a download app that works well on the mac and will eventually download the 16 gb collection. I downloaded all tracks manually and then had to tag them and provide album art. Tedious but worth it for the cost saving. I seem to remember that the tracks had filenames and tracknames. I got the album titles via google. 

ChrisSU posted:

Does anyone have any tips about Qobuz downloads (using a Mac)? I've had several attempts at a Tar download (whatever that is?) but the 16GB download is going to take about 8 hours, and consistently times out at around 6GB with no option to resume.

I've tried downloading individual tracks, but there's no metadata, not even album title! I've downloded the first album, and put it into the same folder system I use for other downloads, but my Unitiserve can't even see it.

Am I missing something obvious here? 

I timed out consistently at the 8 gig point, which as I was downloading in FLAC got me 2/3rds the way there. The rest I did as separate tracks. Couldn't get the downloader to work (I have in the past).

If you're getting no metadata try the FLAC (or Apple equivalent). My biggest hassle (no pun intended) was marrying up tracks to the later albums, with which I was totally unfamiliar. Discogs was my friend!

I am having the same trouble downloading on a PC - managed to get 9 albums worth first time but when tried again can only get about 4 or 5 albums worth before it stops. this is with both flacc and wav hi-res downloads of the tar file.

Also ...

the tar download file has all the tracks under the one collection album with tracks prefixexed with AA_TT_....

where AA = album number and TT = track number.

I downloaded the flacc hi res and copied the files into separate folders for each album and then edited the file names to remove the album number prefix ...

not a good idea as the US and NServ seem to use the Flacc metadata rather than the folder structure and now the tracks are all mixed up ...

I will have to reedit all the file names again but it still seems crazy that we can't see the tracks under their original album names rather than as just one big list of 70+ tracks.

Seems a bit picky to be complaining when I got it at such a ridiculuous price but then lets start the year the way we mean to continue.

Anyone else with such issues?

Allan

I am finding that using the QOBUZ desktop app (PC) to download is the most reliable but quite slow. It will resume if interrupted. For large downloads, like the box set, I set it going overnight. I then separately download the artwork and booklet if available.

Hmmmm, I'm beginning to think this wasn't such a bargain after all. By the time I've spent hours sorting that lot out, with no guarantee of success, I might just look elsewhere in future.

ChrisSU posted:

Hungryhalibut posted:

Use the Qobuz desktop. 

Thanks, I looked at that, but it seems you can only download MP3s and 16/44 with the desktop, and I've bought the Hi-res version.

It may be different with a mac, though I can't imagine why, but the 24 bit version downloaded perfectly using the desktop on a PC. I've not split out the albums into the originals: that's a job for another day, or maybe never. The key to get the desktop working is to fire it up before starting the download. 

The mac qobuz download app works fine but is slow and tended to stick and then timeout, it just needed a few pokes of 'download all' or the French equivalent since the interface is not in English. It took the best part of a day to download via this route.  It is crazy that they haven't maintained the original album structure in the metadata.  The flac files sound do sound good though.

Not really a Lou Reed fan but at €37 with Qobuz Sublime it's very tempting. That's car boot sale prices!