I imagine he had to unlearn the Biden years when he was dealing with actual world leaders. He clearly went in that mode to the first Trump meetings which didn’t quite work.

Also treating every talk with Trump like it was a standup show is a great way to deal with the dumbass.

Qobuz suggests using a 3rd party service: https://help.qobuz.com/en/articles/10156-can-i-import-my-favourites-and-playlists-from-another-platform

That might just be a function of popularity and scale though. Spotify has 750M active users. Qobuz (by this article) reached 1.2M in 2025.

They might be paying more from the goodness of their hearts or they might be paying more because they have no leverage. As the artist, if you get roughly 70x more streamings but each streaming is half the price, you’re gonna get more money obviously.

Disclaimer: I mostly agree with Daniel Ek’s political stances and I’m especially a big fan of him putting significant capital into defence industry. And I like that Spotify is from Sweden and is still mostly owned by swedes. Just to say that the following is not politically motivated.

I just switched over to Qobuz because I got fed up with Spotify’s convoluted UI due to it trying to cram in podcasts and audiobooks in there in addition to just music.

It’s pretty cool. The QBZ client from Flatpak can output bit perfect audio to my DAC with just a few tweaks that the client itself helpfully guides through. QBZ UX is way better than Spotify for mindful listening: it guides towards listening to whole albums instead of badly created mixes.

I tested sound quality with Michael Jackson’s Smooth Criminal. Was way better on Qobuz for reasons that probably have more to do with mastering than actual sound quality of the client. Because, you know, human ears just don’t.

I’ve missed one album so far: Benedictum’s Uncreation isn’t there, but it is in Spotify. Oh well.

Is it a good idea to go vacation in temporary occupied territory? Who can say.