French streamer Qobuz also has a download store for buying single albums and tracks. Until the end of August, you can shop at steep discounts!
Streaming is all very nice, but as we keep seeing, subscription prices are slowly but surely rising. So there is definitely something to be said for building or maintaining your own music collection. You could do that through the purchase of physical media like a CD. But these days it is just as easy to purchase music for download online. Specialized online music stores often offer hi-res material as well. Qobuz – although best known for its streaming service – also runs such a download store, where a big discount promotion is going on until the end of this month. Nice detail: to buy music there, you don’t even have to be a Qobuz subscriber. Just visit their web music store and start shopping.
The downloaded tracks are playable through any self-respecting music player. Can’t find anything, there’s always the free Foobar. Simplistic (and thus easy to operate) in appearance but with many features under the hood.