Tidal is laying off more staff.
Tidal is laying off more staff.
Between 7digital, HD tracks, Qobuz store, and my local physical media store, Tidal has never made sense to me. For $15 or $20 a month I can buy and own every track and album I want.
I use bottom-of-the-barrel Pandora for streaming when I am working out or washing dishes. That's it.
The sad thing it, for streaming "stations", Pandora still has the best algorithms and functioning (thumbs up/down only being applicable to that specific 'station').
It's a shame they've neglected their apps and almost everything else about their business.
They're still immeasurably better than Spotify, both for artists and in terms of bitrate...
I hope it’s still the case as I have Tidal subscription, but they were the ones giving the most money per stream to the artist.
I wouldn’t want to move to another streaming platform unless they are even better for artists.
From what I’ve read (although my numbers are a few years old), Qobuz and Napster pay artists even more than Tidal. The former even significantly so (about 3x, from what I’ve read), although it is slightly more expensive. Both also support lossless audio.
And, for completion: Among the big-tech streaming services, the one that seems to pay the best is Apple Music, with a little more than half of what Tidal pays. The worst ones are amazon and Spotify which both pay about a third of Tidal.
Just cancelled my subscription when they killed Plex integration.
I've never understood the use case for this. How did you use it?
It seamlessly integrated your own local media with tidal. Instead of encoding or downloading, you could just add tidal music as if you had a physical copy of it. It could also be used for radio and plexamp mixes.
I used it for songs that weren't on Tidal when I transferred playlists from Spotify. I found quite afew that I liked that Tidal didn't have. Now that that's gone I've moved to Deezer and am filling out my Plex server separately.
I’m back to pirating all of my music. I will buy CDs or pay for downloads for artists that I really like or smaller artists, but I am fucking through with the streaming platforms. They just enshittify more and more.
I never stopped. I have streaming video and audio subscriptions, But I've never stopped keeping up my catalogs.
Every time I get over invested in one company or another they end up going out of business or selling and reducing half of their catalog. I'll give d+ their sub for Agatha, I'll give Hulu their sub for Futurama. When Wednesday comes back I'll swap D+ for Netflix for the season again. But every single one of those episodes still goes to my local archive The same as if I would have recorded or a VHS tape in the '90s.
Wow is it still a thing? I had no idea. It always seemed to sit in this weird limbo between Spotify and YouTube Music (for people who just want to listen to music) and Qobuz and HD Tracks (for people who just want to listen to their new £250 power leads). Never sure what it was actually for.
Cheaper than Spotify for the number of users it gives you (at least where I live) and the app itself has functioned significantly better than Spotify's has in my experience so far while not depriving me of any of the artists and albums I listen to regularly. Early on in its life it was big time selling snake oil, but at this point it's just a solid alternative to Spotify and YouTube music which have both, frankly, gotten "too big to fail" and have begun enshittification because of it. Man we need more competition...
I've had a Tidal subscription for about a year. It's recommendation algo is way way better than Spotify and there are none of those spammy 1 minute tracks that Spotify has because 'artists' have gamed the system.
They don't have a Linux app but the PWA works fine. Minimize the window to reduce CPU usage (I know that sounds crazy but it actually works).
Same, it's fine and no joke rogan
That is a package like "tidal-hifi" or something like that that can basically put the web app on your linux desktop ad an app.
Their UI is super slow. That’s why the CPU usage gets better. It’s slow in Safari too.
Their sound quality is just significantly better compared to Spotify. Even with my bluetooth earbuds I can hear the difference. Spotify and Youtube just sound muddy in comparison.
They’re not the only ones anymore though. Apple, Amazon, Deezer, Qobuz and Napster also have lossless audio support.
Flac Audiophile types with equipment and no desire to pirate?
HDtracks.
That being said if you're buying FLACs from major labels for $40 while indie bands release albums in FLAC via band camp for $3, you're a chump.
The members of Led Zeppelin that are still alive don't need the money nearly as much, and even if they did most of it isn't going to them anyways.
What's a Tidal?
A wave of layoffs.
Funny guy - they're gonna fire you last. 😁
Lol
A music app like Spotify founded by Jay-Z.
The proposal was to pay the artists more.
Sounds good, but I think the majority goes to the labels anyways, so it doesn't change much for the artists.
The main issue is executives basically enslaving their artists with "360 deal" contracts.
It was a Norwegian platform called Wimp, but Jay-Z bought it, rebranded it to Tidal and moved HQ from Oslo to the states.
A music app like Spotify founded by Jay-Z
Really? That's not how I remembered it, I just thought he bought the existing service Wimp and rebranded it. Kudos to Jay-Z if he actually made a music streaming app though.
Streams flac. Good supplement to piracy. I might switch to Qobuz sometime, but it works well for now.
Dang. I would have supported this, until I found out Jay Z set this up.
You could say.... a wave of redundancies.
Like the tides, what went up will eventually go down.