TIDAL Music: HiFi Sound

Sounds great! Videos are perfect

Preset Playlists and searching for playlists are not as good or easy as Spotify. I enjoy the preset playlists spotify offers by mood and activity. Also loading songs at high quality is slow and cuts out even on high speed networks. Streaming to other devices is close to useless. Can’t remotely control devices with the tidal app, and can’t see other devices’ current playing either.

Playlist creation is not as goods as Spotify so its not good to search for new songs. To much bombarded with commercial music on the home page. If the guy is listening to heavy metal all day, he wont listen to Beyonce’s new song. Video functionality is nice but not that useable since one of the main reasons to switch to Tidal is audio quality, the videos don’t come with best audio quality. I would recommend TIDAL to anyone who is a bit of an audiophile, but not for those who want to find knew tracks and who listens to music on gaming headsets

There has been several times when I was listening to a song and looked at the title, but it didn’t match what was playing.

Enough said!

Need to be able to change the cover of a playlist soon..

Can't download after a few playlists. They stop. No way to start again. Didn't used to do this. Have several hundred MB free. Fixing ever? Support just lists generic responses without understanding the issue.

way better sound quality than spotify and the user interface is amazing. no regrets

Good offerings, and good quality. But everything is being downsampled to 44.1 KHz - tried an iPhone (via cam connection kit) and iPad (USB C) into a Chord Mojo 2 DAC, and it’s only ever seeing 44.1, regardless of Tidal’s specified sample frequency. Identical setups with Apple Music are being seen by the DAC at the specified frequency. Also, confused by the pricing. I see $10.99 advertised, including on Tidal’s website. But when I started the free trial (via the app) it’s telling me $13.99 per month. Unless I can get some clarity on both these issues downsampling problem, and misleading pricing, there is zero chance I’ll be a Tidal user by the time the free trial is over…

Issues: 1: Trying to favorite a track often stops playback & makes me restart the track. 2: Downloads seem to panic at some set of circumstances; mine has been snagged with 87 tracks to download for a week or two this time. 3: Also; whatever set of circumstances the app needs to actually download tracks remains elusive and frustrating. It doesn’t seem to happen at all if the app is not open & on-screen (and of course we all wanna just sit there staring at our music app while it downloads rather than doing other things with our phones). 4: “Downloads” is only semi-helpful anyways since the app tends to lag hugely on trying to open downloads if it doesn’t have an active data connection. 5: Tidal’s apparent response to this is to create “offline mode” which kicks on automatically but doesn’t turn off unless i tell it to, which is really just an extra layer of frustration. 6: Library management is also a nightmare as tracks regularly seem to fall out of their library; often needing only to be found & saved again, but making using their service far more effort than it should ever be. I’m with Tidal mostly because they pay artists better than their main competitors, but if they can’t get their software to function without constantly wrestling it into functioning they’re not likely to keep users. Id love to tell everyone to go with Tidal but I can’t recommend their user experience to anyone.