Upcoming moOde 7.1.0 release

[Tim Curtis]

Hi,
can we have better integration with QObuz (and Tidal)?

Not without some developer contributing a 'better integration'. 

Right now moOde depends on the upmpdcli developer to keep up with the twists and turns of the streaming services. 

Integrating the Tidal service is particularly dodgy because it depends on a secret key which has to be copied from somewhere else. Tidal keeps changing it. 

It seems to me the Qobuz integration isn't too bad now*. With updates in upcoming moOde 7.1.0, the Qobuz service however is getting to be about as good as it can be without major retooling.

There's more than one way to access these services. I suppose someone   should write a little HowTo.

Regards,
Kent

*I am not a Qobuz user but just this week started a 30-day trial subscription for testing purposes.

These paid music services can only be integrated to a point in Free Open Source Software like moOde because their API's are proprietary and licensed. It is possible to use them though to develop a user installable plugin that would provide access to the service directly from within moOde but our project would then be responsible for paying the monthly/annual license fees to the music service providers. There are also.minimum fees that have to paid and the service may not even grant a license if they don't feel that there are enough potential users to guarantee the minimum fees can be met.

These fees would need to be recovered by our project and this would mean a monthly subscription charge for use of the plugin. This means that a user would need to pay a monthly subscription fee to the Music Service and an additional monthly subscription fee to our project for use of the service within moOde. I dunno about that double-fee model... Personally if I absolutely had to have in-player access to Music Services I'd just go for something like Roon that has all the bells and whistles.

Another issue though is whether our project even wants to get involved in paid software and subscription services. I'm not particularly interested in going down that route and I think keeping moOde Free has many advantages for both the project, the developers, and our users.

-Tim