Years ago I opened a qobuz France account in order to download music. This was before the streaming service was available in the USA. I never had a streaming account, just a download account. I never used a VPN.
Now that I want to try the USA streaming service through my new Audirvana Studio account, I can’t. I can’t use my Audirvana voucher for the 3 month free trial.
Furthermore, the web browser keeps coming up in French and there is no way I can reset this.
I want to try the streaming service, but I can’t because a few years ago I downloaded a few albums?
That’s logical certainly but I don’t think you can get the three months trial unless you are a Audirvāna account holder. The Qobuz Direct trial is 30 days only. Antoine will know what to do so he hopefully gets three months.
My first logical step was to contact Qobuz. Unfortunately, once I enter my email, it switches to French and there is no way to switch it to English except anonymously.
So I went to Audiophile Style forums and they suggested I come here.
Create a new Qobuz account from the Audirvana Studio app using “get voucher” button. If still redirects you to Qobuz France clear browser cache and cookies. You can have 3 months trial only if you subscribed to Audirvana Studio for a year. If still can’t use the trial email Qobuz - they answer fast.
I am happy to say, I am now streaming Qobuz. I was able to apply the 3 month special voucher that Audirvana offers to their one year subscribers.
If you are an old Qobuz customer from the USA, with a French account, here is what I had to do:
First, I had to go to Qobuz support to get the account changed to USA. There is no way you can do this yourself. No way Audirvana can do this.
Then…
I was not able to use the code directly on the Qobuz account web site. It said it was an invalid code.
So…
I went back into Audirvana, and from there I was able to use the code.
I’m all set now. Streaming Qobuz from Audirvana as we speak.