Qobuz Unveils its New Discover Page: The Perfect Balance Between Human Curation and Personalized Recommendations

Paris, September 22, 2025 - Qobuz, the French, independently-owned high-quality streaming and download platform, unveils a major redesign of its Discover page. True to its positioning as a "digital record store in a world of supermarkets," Qobuz introduces a refreshed experience that perfectly embodies its DNA: human-curated music for discovery, from legends to emerging talents, enhanced by personalized recommendations to fit each user's taste.

Three Distinct Universes: To Each Their Own Discovery Style

The French platform enriches its music discovery experience with a new Discover page built around three complementary universes that allow users to choose their discovery style according to their preferences.

• The homepage brings together a synthesis of the best from both Our Picks and For You: a selection of Qobuz's editorial offerings (New Releases, Playlists, Our Awards, Ideal Discography, Qobuzissime, Album of the Week) enriched with personalized features such as Recent Activity, Your Releases to Watch, Your Mixes, and similar recommendations.
• The Editor's Picks universe offers a discovery experience guided 100% by the Qobuz team of music experts to stay up to date with the latest and greatest must-listen releases, from iconic groups to emerging talents, across all genres. This "handcrafted" selection also provides access to playlists showcasing labels and artists of the moment and the latest award-winning releases from top media publications. An option for those who want to discover sans algorithms!
• The For You universe relies on our recommendation engine, enriched by our music teams' work, to compose an experience perfectly aligned with personal musical tastes, from Your Mixes and Radio Stations to Release Watch, Recently Played, suggestions based on similar artists, and your music library.

This new-and-improved Discover experience allows a music experience where human expertise fuels discovery, while leveraging technology to personalize the experience.

The Best of Both Worlds: Human Curation Enhanced by Algorithmic Recommendations

The major novelty of this new version: Release Watch, a feature that centralizes recent releases from artists, labels, and awards followed by the user. Updated in real-time and always visible on the homepage, it offers a distinctive level of personalization and exhaustive tracking, ensuring listeners never miss a new release likely to spark their interest. This leverages Qobuz' unique and celebrated offerings, designed with music enthusiasts in mind, adding an extra layer of customization.

Meanwhile, the platform renews its offering with features that preserve Qobuz's essence:

• Your Mixes adopts a distinctive approach with DailyQ, daily suggestions, and WeeklyQ, combining both human curation and algorithms to pull from the latest releases. True to its values, Qobuz prioritizes a focused, high-value listening path rather than multiplying playlists.
• Spotlight highlights an artist that matches a listener's preferences, displaying the artist's releases, playlists, and magazine articles on Qobuz. More than a simple recommendation, this feature offers a contextual experience that showcases both iconic artists and emerging talents with both music and editorial content to deepen the listening experience.
• Essentials draws from a database of emblematic albums selected by Qobuz's editorial team, proposing must-listen classics corresponding to the user's tastes. This feature prioritizes exploration of iconic releases across music history, specifically curated for each listener's taste.

The new Discover experience leverages Qobuz's recent innovations that have been particularly well-received. This includes the launch of Label and Award pages, as well as the highly anticipated Qobuz Connect feature, which allows for seamless streaming directly from the Qobuz app to speakers and devices.

"This new Discover embodies our vision of musical discovery: offering an experience where one can enjoy both the richness of our human curation - all the new releases not to be missed, selected and commented on by our teams, labels, artists - and the precision of tailored recommendations. This balance enables a complete experience that doesn't trap the listener in redundant algorithmic recommendations. This hybrid approach is one of Qobuz's great singularities," declares Axel Destagnol, Product Director at Qobuz.

Hear From Our Users:

• "A big improvement in respect to its layout, and easy to find things. Looks good and slick in its operation- excellent" - David C.
• "Good addition and hopefully more music played the more variety in the mixes and album recommendations." - Eric S.
• "Awesome service and app that just keeps getting better." - Charlotte P.
• "A great option most music lovers should try." - Lauren B.

About Qobuz

Founded in 2007, Qobuz is an independently-owned music platform and a pioneer in high-quality sound, standing out as a unique alternative in the streaming market. Available in 26 countries across Europe, the United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Latin America, and Japan, it is aimed at all those seeking an authentic and fulfilling musical experience. With more than 100 million tracks in lossless quality - CD, Hi-Res (24-bit/up to 192 kHz), DXD, and DSD - Qobuz offers the richest Hi-Res catalog on the market, recognized by the world's leading hi-fi brands. It stands out for its commitment to preserving original recordings, in addition to its human touch with unique editorial content, expertly curated playlists, liner notes, and more. Since 2021, Qobuz Club ( https://community.qobuz.com/ ) has brought together an international, online community of audiophiles and music lovers. In 2025, Qobuz became the first music platform to publish its average per-stream payout rate - US$0.01873, officially verified and the highest on the market to date - reaffirming its commitment to a fairer and more sustainable streaming model. Qobuz is Hi-Res Audio certified by the Japan Audio Society (JAS).

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