That too, the competition is getting tough, the lossless differentiator is no more, apart from it I don’t know why would anyone prefer Qobuz over Spotify. I guess Q supports Wasapi exclusive and Roon, but other than that Spotify is a better service with its vast library, fantastic recommendations, and Connect tech. Well, Q has hires too.
I stopped using roon+qobuz for a month and used only spotify. The purpose of the experiment was to see if it would work for me and save me $15/mo. if/when they ever launch hi fi (which at this point doen't seem forthcoming).
I'm back on roon+qobuz.
Spotify connect is a great feature. Their curated, generated, and user shared playlists and playlist management are great. Mobile app is great. Radio features are way better than roon or roon+qobuz. (Qobuz desn't have the feature at all.)
Other than that Spotify is very song/playlist oriented. Forget trying to organize a library of albums and browse/search it by genre, etc. It is also weak on metadata.
Roon raat is better and more capable than connect, although not as widely available (hello Denon+Marantz?). Roon's metadata and library management features are light years ahead of spotify and every other streaming service. Focus, bookmarks and tags are indispensable features. Genre classifications are way more extensive. Not to mention per-zone dsp/peq.
I guess that's somewhat apples and oranges, but yes, without roon, Qobuz apps are nowhere near as nice as spotify, unless all you do is pick albums and play them.