Qobuz offers a student plan for $5 per month

Qobuz, a streaming music service from France that competes with Tidal, Apple Music and Amazon Music with its library of CD-quality lossless high-resolution audio tracks, is now offering a student plan with a 60% savings over the company's standard individual plan.

Qobuz calls it “Studio Student,” and if you’re between 18 and 25 and enrolled in an accredited school, you can subscribe for $5 per month for up to two years. The plan offers the same access to Qobuz's 100 million+ titles as a regular subscription. There is no minimum term and every plan starts with a one-month free trial, so you can cancel within 30 days if you don't like it.

The plan is available in every market where Qobuz is available, and the company says it uses a third-party service to verify student status. The other condition is that you must sign up via the Qobuz website – the plan is not available via the Qobuz app.

Once you have registered, your student price will remain valid for 12 months. After this period has expired, if you are still a registered student, you can extend it for another 12 months at the same price.

After 24 months, the Studio Student plan will automatically switch to the regular Studio Solo subscription and you will be charged the standard monthly price for that plan (currently $13 per month or $130 per year).

As with all Qobuz plans, the Studio Student subscription includes:

• Access to Qobuz magazine with news, interviews, commentary, retrospectives, and hi-fi listening tutorials and guides
• Importing playlists from other platforms with Soundiiz
• Hand-picked, human-curated featured releases and playlists
• Offline listening

Since Qobuz's main advantage is its high-quality collection of lossless music, you should check out its lossless listening options. Very few wireless earbuds or wireless headphones allow you to hear without loss. That's why people often invest in an affordable digital-to-analog converter (DAC) and pair it with a good set of wired headphones.

Alternatively, if your headphones support listening via USB-C audio (like the Beats Studio Pro), you can connect your cans directly to an Android phone, computer, or iPhone 15 or later and get similar results.