I'm leaving Tidal.

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[@aydomac]

“Life may be short but it’s still the longest thing you’ll ever do” … damn, Dank 🤘🏼

[@TimTams_64]

my virginity might beat it

[@aydomac]

@@TimTams_64 😂🤘🏼

[@NuclearTopSpot]

One is the loneliest number that you'll ever do

[@isaacsrandomvideos667]

Ueahp

[@isaacsrandomvideos667]

490

[@Colorsfulls]

"so what do you watch on youtube" "a man screaming at mp3 players with a green ipad"

[@superchiaki]

whats on the other side of the green ipad? :OO

[@TemporalOnline]

@@superchiaki It's green iPads all the way down 😲😮

[@SuperMartynukas]

I agree

[@BingstonGames]

@@entername1689 you mean DingusPad

[@stan4701]

And a weird dog thats called Frank! He did say that in one of his videos that "that's the dog they sold me!"

[@michealpersicko9531]

TIDAL sure did go through a lot of effort making their UI looking like Spotify's. The only problem i've had really with spotify is trying to rearrange my liked stuff when they went over to the favoriting system other than that i haven't had any problems with it.

[@lettherebegames8]

New Spotify UI is god awful though

Spotify has been radically changing their UI all the time. Now they mixed together the playlists, followed artist and liked albums, and I can't find anything anymore despite trying for months...

[@lettherebegames8]

@ yeah I hate it

[@theaxolotlgod1204]

I honestly thought it was Spotify the first time I saw it.

[@lucymorrison5184]

@ yeah it’s clunky as hell, I haven’t used Spotify since I switched to tidal 6 months ago (which I now regret) and after going back to Spotify, the interface has just become 10x worse, it’s slow, everything is blended together into very few menus, they shove podcasts down your throat at any costs (seriously my home page is like 70% podcasts even through I have NO interest in them)

[@kartoffelbrei8090]

"We need to go back to actually owning your music" Me with 5 TB of pirated flacs: "YES, go tell em,daddy."

[@funkalicioussilvano3346]

I have 1 tb in a mega link

[@afonsomartins6311]

How lol

[@funkalicioussilvano3346]

@@afonsomartins6311 u want the link?

[@afonsomartins6311]

@@funkalicioussilvano3346 sure

[@funkalicioussilvano3346]

@@afonsomartins6311 idk if yt comments will allow me to send it

[@fubsthefish8320]

Tidal would pull up the song I was listening to in a playlist when I reopened it, like it should; but instead of 'remembering' the place in the playlist and just moving through it like last time, it would continue off in some wonderland of related music.

[@fubsthefish8320]

@@caspay21 I'm sorry what.

[@Dauthdart]

@@caspay21 wow. 😅

[@sledgetable172]

@@caspay21 oh no, your cat walked across your keyboard again

[@pleasantpheasant1829]

@@caspay21 funny troll lmao

[@sledgetable172]

​@@caspay21 Maybe if you earn a VETERINARY MEDICINE DEGREE while scamming 5 year olds on Roblox Adopt Me with mom's phone to contain TIGERS and LIONS in your SCP-containment cell😳 *why did i write this*

[@Bob-jt9dm]

LADIES AND GENTLEMEN WE GOT 2 VIDS IN ONE DAY

[@Joshie117]

Not even one day, 1 MINUTE!

[@JetSetDman]

More like two vids in twelve seconds

[@dinus574]

Right after each other too.

[@TomokoJinx]

In the same second I can't believe it

[@elvistek2062]

DIDNT KNOW IT WAS MY BIRTHDAY

[@HIghlordBalkan]

Here we are, nearly two whole years after Spotify announced its Hi-Fi streaming tier and they've still got nothing to show for it. Whatever the reason for its delay, I doubt it's going to launch with much fanfare. Lot of people seem to have forgotten about it at this point and I recently gave in and subbed to Tidal because I was sick of waiting for something that'll never come. It sucks but Spotify really screwed the pooch on this one, a golden opportunity squandered.

[@Trippsy05]

I switched to Tidal today because I can hear a slight difference, though I don't know if it's worth $10 more a month. Using beyer dt770 not sure if there would be a bigger difference on better cans. Looking to get beyer T5 soon anyway. I always did think that my records sounded slightly better than Spotify as well, but it's much harder to do a side by side test than it is to have Tidal and Spotify on the same computer screen. Spotify seems to be making interesting business decisions. I remember getting ads for Car Thing constantly, but it's just an android tablet that only runs Spotify. You can use your phone directly or some cars display a Spotify application when connected with Android auto. It's a completely unnecessary and expensive product for a nonexistent problem. It would be far more beneficial for them to add higher quality audio.

[@Ram-zh9pz]

While apple music stepped twice up with "hi res lossless"

[@feelinghealing3890]

I gotta say, music and ANY media being pulled from ANY service is really the top reason for carribean exploration enthusiasts. If I cannot keep what I buy, I will not buy.

[@Park_Place]

As an added bonus you serve as a small archive that'll have the music available even if it disappears off every platform and store shelf

[@ambiarock590]

If paying isn't owning, then Caribbean exploring isn't stealing.

[@amberredfield]

Dank: I’m leaving Tidal and here’s why… Me, never hearing of Tidal: Yes yes do tell, good sir.

[@chickpea]

I only heard of it this week from a video about celebrity apps, so you're not alone

[@gidd]

@@chickpea what video?

[@SpiritofPoison]

tidal been around

[@graphicsgod]

What's a "Tidal?!?"

[@chickpea]

@@gidd "a journey through the celeb app graveyard" is the name of the video

[@DankPods]

Sad to hear a lot of folks are having these issues across all platforms! I've been all Tidal the last while as I always liked that they paid artists more. I have my own music up on streaming sites (Dankmus, it's a hot amateur mess) and you need a lot of listens to make a living that's for sure. I'm probably going to take a break from streaming and enjoy the files I already own, maybe an excuse to finally get into vinyl and cassettes... EDIT: I forgot to mention Tidal vs my raw FLAC files and I always preferred the raw bois out of the FiiO's built in music player. Back to buying music for me!

[@tamertakato]

After listening to Gorillaz's Demon Days on vinyl I'll never looking back. Sure, streaming services get me a lot of songs/albums that don't sell in Chile, but I agree on "if you liked it, own it"

[@gaaraati]

I mean bugs happen here and there for sure, but honestly Apple Music is helping me to find so many awesome artists and songs. The added benefit of lossless is just amazing. I pay like €2 / month as a student. Crazy good value 👌🏻

[@ThatOneWeeb420]

Spotify tries to pay artists but there's been a huge controversy with apple vs spotify when apple introduced the 30% cut, making spotify having to increase their price a couple of dollars to cover the cost but then apple introduced their own music services which forced spotify to rollback on the prices. Then years later, the argument begins with a lot of people *ahem including epic ahem* standing up to apple with the cut being too high.

[@springpanda9393]

hiya dank, try Freezer, nearly everything on its service is in flac quality, the desktop app is essentially premium for free, the phone app isnt premium for free but its still really good

[@mccobsta]

Thoughts about deezer the less known music streaming service

[@liam9235]

"Life may be short but it's still the longest thing you'll ever do" Damn dude. Deep stuff coming from Dankpods

[@alba4k]

spotify is doing lossless? meanwhile, two years later, here we are

[@mainsmain]

3 years later and here we are

[@DATGUY795]

"Life may be short, but it's still the longest thing you'll ever do." What the fuck? I didn't expect this wisdom to be bestowed upon me today LMAO

[@frenchfries4294]

same

[@ljharnish]

technically, the longest thing you’ll ever do is wear clothes, because if you’re buried with clothes you’d have those on for a long long time

[@handlemonium]

It gets better.......almost every IEM on AliExpress is on sale right now with extra discounts below (I just bought the BGVP Zero for 40% off). *Coupons for All buyers (values in USD)* 3 OFF 30: *618ALI3* 6 OFF 50: *618ALI6* 11 OFF 90: *618ALI11* 13 OFF 110: *618ALI13* Credits to Promosale for posting these :)

[@augustuslunasol10thapostle]

@@ljharnish you'd be dead your corspe would wear it longer but you the person don't

[@Silasssssssss]

"you don't buy every single album in flacs" Me, a Bandcamp user and physical media collector: ahahahHAHAHAHAH

[@alexbassett6967]

Lmao yeah, just like buy used CD albums if you want a higher quality audio for cheap, its not like they're a hot commodity anymore, they're cheap as dirt if they're over a year old.

[@SlyHikari03]

Yup

[@neurokinetik64ES]

@@alexbassett6967 Buy used, rip, then sell back.

[@XGamin1]

Me: *buys MP3*

[@vulcanitu2578]

@@alexbassett6967 I'd love to disagree

[@merlijndouwes999]

listened to a man complain for 6 minutes while eating breakfast. loved every second of it

[@cameronaberner]

Man this made me try Tidal for the lossless experience. I don"t think I can listen to regular compressed audio anymore, the clarity and detail is amazing.

[@Akab]

funfact, the "master" quality setting is actually a lossy conpression and more of a approval sign for better mixing than anything else...

[@De-M-oN]

@@Akab it isnt a lossy compression.

[@Sixthhokage95]

​@@De-M-oNMQA was demonstrably proved to be lossy a few years back. Lossy codecs aren't bad, you'd be very hard pressed to tell the difference between MP3 V0 and FLAC encodings of the same signal*. But the false advertising and proprietary bullshit from MQA is unacceptable. *: ~hi-res~ and other audiophile marketed formats tend to get better mixing than the standard releases, thus the format with all the marketing guff actually does sound better because it's encoded a better sounding source signal. I've bought an album as 192/24 FLAC for the better mix before, but to put it on my phone I reencoded as MP3 V0 to not waste space.

[@wowitscoldout1119]

"the songs I test headphones with"

[@charlesnixonyomega]

Lol

[@johnxina2140]

I tried to click and it was gone lol

[@Crosstariale]

l0l

[@brandontechnerd]

@@johnxina2140 same

[@thatqwacka]

@@brandontechnerd how I’m was just watching it

[@baphoheck]

“Life may be short but it’s still the longest thing you’ll ever do,” bro I didn’t know I was gonna have a life outlook/perspective breakthrough watching a video about a shit app.

[@Chirrpy]

Welcome to the DankPods experience

[@flamu9183]

Only legends remember when this was called “Tidal stinks”

[@RaymoZenitram]

Lol I wonder why he changed it.

[@crying2theocean203]

@@RaymoZenitram I think because he realised there’s actually a lot of people (like me) that love tidal and have never had an issue with it

[@Quantum_Magnus]

I’ve literally never heard of Tidal before, but I feel sorry for that guy that lost his entire playlist. That is the exact reason why I have a text file with all the songs, artists, and albums I’ve listened to and liked stored on my computer. That way, I’ll never forget any of them.

[@runforitman]

"phones have so much stinking storage space now" *looks at my 3gb warning*⠀

[@TerrorLTZ]

jokes on you... i don't even have a phone...

[@Preposter]

@@TerrorLTZ That's crazy. That's a very small minority.

[@zues121510]

I have over 100gb free, and this phone isn't even close to flagship price

[@KontrolStyle]

trust me add an sd-card.. 256 gigs 25 bux? np!

[@iEx0dus]

@@zues121510 same

[@Mr._Sandman]

_That 'Up In Smoke' reference attached to Tidal_ Accurate. Hilarious, and accurate.

[@dionysus6892]

“You fools! I know only three cords!”

[@handlemonium]

Thankfully I swim in the jungle that is KZbin Music.

[@Mr._Sandman]

@@dionysus6892 My ancestors are smiling upon me. Can yours say the same?

[@pvtcmyers87]

“Life may be short but it’s still the longest thing your ever going to do.” I can add that right next to my favorite quote. “Nothing should be made for everybody.”

[@milodmulholland7448]

Just got a pair of grados on your recommendation, absolutely incredible! And now I have some more tunes to add to my try list :D

[@1blisslife]

Showing Boney M from your playlist & mentioning Bananaphone alone earned my like. 😁 Well... Frank too :)

[@Teratofur]

@@gmeeer9165 how so

[@Ghostclue]

@@gmeeer9165 what

[@jakelegrice4773]

@@Teratofur he's a troll look at Al his other comments

[@Teratofur]

@@jakelegrice4773 yeah I was thinking they probably were, but I thought I'd ask just in case lol

[@jakelegrice4773]

@@Teratofur fair enough lol

[@cpt_soban]

"SPOTIFY!" "NO APPLE MUSIC!" "NO TIDAL!!" Meanwhile KZbin Music: *tumbleweeds*

[@Dauthdart]

Hey... I like KZbin music...

[@danielr9708]

Amazon Music HD: ...

[@Madnyai]

I use yt music and spotify.. both are great

[@somayough]

I find that the music on KZbin music sounds better than Spotify, but worse than Deezer. It's a happy middle ground that I can easily recommend if you're doing the whole online music streaming thing for the first time, but it doesn't have the wow factor to go through the hassle of migrating to from Spotify.

[@cringe_boi.mp4]

Me with Pandora because the slightly better song selection in my opinion , heh.

[@CornusXBL]

you're like the only guy I fully trust when it comes to anything audio and a review of the Woojer vest would be pretty cool! Its basically a wearable 'amp' i guess so you can feel the music like you do at a concert

[@veryscaryreaper8883]

Hey, dank? I was very into audio hardware a while back and am getting back into it now because of you. I have one small bone to pick. Instead of buying FLACs, buy vinyls. Most of my vinyls, especially from larger bands, come with downloadable FLACs at no extra cost. So, you can get the physical artistry and content of vinyls and the quality of FLACs in one copy. Make sure you get vinyls at a smaller record store, tho. Up here in Canada, Sunrise Records, the big box record store, has no options at twice the price of mom and pop shops. The mom and pop shops have employees who I think have listened to every piece of music in the Western Hemisphere, the vinyls are like 20 bucks, they come with protective sleeves, and in general foster very friendly atmospheres compared with the big box stores. I can not recommend mom and pop shops enough, the atmosphere is, like, opposite of the snooty “you aren’t worthy of our service” nature of guitar shops.

[@jameslamb7197]

To be fair, Spotify's support is also criminal, along with the app stability.

[@martin1649]

yay for monthly unnecessary UI changes!!!

[@simon4476]

@@martin1649 the old UI was literally my favourite music streaming UI ever. such a shame they changed it

[@Arko_gfx]

@@simon4476The UI is a user preference,some people like it,some people not. I never liked Spotify's UI but it's not bad when you compare it with others. I still love the UI of tidal and Apple music.

[@steveman751]

Every music app is terrible to be honest. I use apple music on android, it's buggy, slow and clunky as hell. Also dogshit support, can't use it with most software, and a lot of systems can't use it. Like spotify is available on ps4 and apple music is not.

[@Jordanwk108]

I still use Spotify, but I’ll also never forgive them for killing the BEST feature in a streaming service - an integrated inbox. Loved sending playlists, songs, artists, etc. to friends and others. Was such an incredible feature and they just axed it one day.

[@Dee_Just_Dee]

Let's not forget Tidal adding MQA to part of their library and thinking that anybody who knows the difference between lossless and lossy should even care.

[@impointr]

Doesn't help that MQA is full of lies and misleading marketing. They even were rightfully called out for it several times.

[@LordHonkInc]

MQA is a veritable clusterfuck and I feel personally so offended by their staff literally lying to my face that I just don't support them even at my own expense ("oh woe is me, the convenience of streaming music on a subpar platform, gone forever" -_- ). They're telling me there's no way I can't hear the difference between their lossy compression and lossless, and I don't take kindly to being told what to think.

[@impointr]

@@LordHonkInc I honestly wish Tidal actually paid attention to user complains about their use of MQA over FLAC.

[@michealpersicko9531]

@@LordHonkInc Would have been better off switching from FLAC to WAV since at least you're just jumping from one lossless format to another.

[@antonio1681]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/rp2WfXethpajjNU

[@ambaal]

It's 2022 now and tidal has improved somewhat (and dropped prices considerably). Random pausing is still a thing though. And yes, spotify lossless is not even in sight yet.

[@ryderdopp8145]

“Life might be short but it’s still the longest thing you’ll ever do” Damn this hit hard 😂

[@MegitsuneSwe]

Was honestly expecting MQA to at least me mentioned...

[@559925]

Some audiophiles don't like it

[@imgladnotu9527]

Lol did you get recommended GoldenSound's video on MQA?

[@thebritishbiker8197]

@@559925 "some" lol Its universally hated tbh

[@jonasgrill1155]

Yeah, MQA is advertised as lossless but it's actually just shit.

[@woofywooflez384]

@@559925 all audiophiles hate it for a reason

[@Javaboymk03]

"MUSIC NOT BEING AVAILABLE ON THE PLATFORM ANYMORE" Remembering King Crimson on Spotify

[@burnpygmalion]

is king crimson not on spotify any more? i remember listening to matte kudasai a couple of days ago,

[@Javaboymk03]

@@burnpygmalion their main albums are gone, but their live album (except the radical action) is still available, somewhat

[@Deckard-ig4qd]

@@Javaboymk03 Maybe it also depends on the country you're in. I live in Belgium and I still have access to those albums on Spotify...

[@Javaboymk03]

@@Deckard-ig4qd yeah, probably region locked for some unknown reason

[@xPandamon]

King Crimson is available though?

[@fyretnt]

“Life is short but it’s the longest thing you ever do” I’m quoting this

[@WooShell]

"Song unavailable" - that's why I still buy my music as downloadable files and carry them around on my devices, and have backups on my NAS drive. I've seen so many people getting burned by cloud streaming or storage services that suddenly went out of business or decided to screw their customers over with changing business models etc, that I'm never going to buy into any of them.

[@adamevans1989]

GoldenSound did such a great exposé on MQA being snake oil.

[@xen0vantage542]

I just watched it a few days ago and it absolutely sucks to feel cheated to. Sure it sounds decent/good but the fact that they are so shady about it, along with the fact that it actually is snake oil and they lied about its capabilities, made me quit my subscription immediately. I am not down to pay money to a platform that supports that. I really can't wait for Spotify HiFi to drop.

[@bogdandumitrescu4765]

@@xen0vantage542 if you're on ios, you can listen to some stuff on apple music until spotify hifi drops. just use the trial, it includes apple lossless (even if you've used the trial before, you get an extra 2 months to try it out)

[@AVINIDE]

Fun fact: you can buy a Master badge on an every song you publish on Tidal for just $17.99/song, and it's in their blue "verified" quality, even though it's plain 16/44.1 upsampled to 24/88.2.

[@xen0vantage542]

@@bogdandumitrescu4765 I can definitely try it out. I don't have an iPhone but I'm sure I can use it on desktop. On phone the quality is limited anyway regardless of using the internal or an external DAC. I am actually using Amazon HD music in the meantime. I have a prime account so I get a 4 month free trial for HD.

[@xen0vantage542]

@@AVINIDE I hope that isn't true lol but seeing as how the MQA verification is bs, I don't doubt it.

[@Prime9973]

1:04 the thing is, tech giants usually have far worse apps than even small solo developers, just look at the state of reddit apps, every single third party app is better than the official one.

[@AlexandruLipan]

At the time of thw Windows Phone, the thing was exacerbated: third party app were light years more refined than official apps, that sometimes do not even followed the metro style. It's not surprise Reddit complains about limited app interactions, or Tumblr cries about limited user activity.

[@fishappy0_962]

Spotify UI had became considerably worse over time, that's why I left spotify for tidal. Like I get that recommendation can be worse sometimes, but playing hardbass in the middle of my lofi session ? That's something else. Also found out that the group listening session feature is half-assly made and barely work.

[@will2316]

I concur me. Good stuff mate. Don’t remember writing this comment though 🤔

[@paisleepunk]

this is a funny comment looking back

[@cdvideodump]

​​@@paisleepunkrip third party reddit apps murdered by spez

[@quoverlord9398]

One thing I appreciate about this channel is that he tells it how it is. This video and the Raycons video. Love this channel.

[@ntswft]

Tidal is droppin' the expensive drums at this point.

[@ngwoo]

Tidal stops playing music randomly so you have time to reflect on the quality of what you've just heard

[@GonDFRD]

I personally don’t see myself leaving spotify, not even for better sound quality. i couldn’t possibly abandon my ten year old playlists, and through the discover weekly playlists i have discovered A LOT of new music. i would love to be able to transfer everything to apple music, but i don’t think it would be the same. if anyone has done it and knows if it’s possible, i am all ears.

[@mast8082]

You can tranfer your playlists with soundiiz if you‘re interested:)

[@Namajaff]

bazinga

[@antk24]

I used songshift and all my songs transferred perfectly! well, except for the fact that some aren’t.. “available” in my country on apple music.

[@FlakyMusic]

Spotify and Deezer have helped me a lot with discovery.

[@GonDFRD]

i will definitely check those out! thank you!

[@sodaddict]

You want the highest quality music, you download it. You want to just listen to music, you use Spotify. Simple as that

[@bltzcstrnx]

I used to subscribe to Spotify, now trying YT Music. The KZbin Premium bundle with my regional pricing is just too irresistible. Although I currently trying Deezer now and still yet to decide whether to continue or not.

[@neko6803]

@Nicefisher Actually most CDs are actually containing heavily filesize-compressed versions of a song (mostly below-192-Mp3) so just having a highquality-mp3 on some Harddrive or USB-Stick makes more sense. especially since those are way more portable than 100 CDs but contain even more data.

[@lucymorrison5184]

Deezer and Apple Musics lossless tiers are like, not absolutely garbage though

[@bltzcstrnx]

@@neko6803 no, that is not true. Most original CDs are encoded in Red Book. Which contains uncompressed LPCM data at 16-bit/44,1khz (1411 kbps). This is usually pressed (not burned) from first generation copy of master CD. Master CD is the one that is produced after a mastering session.

[@neko6803]

@@bltzcstrnx well i have a lot of CDs lying around which i bought sealed and i know for a fact that a ton of them contain songs which have filesizes below 10 MB (for 4 Minutes+ that is not a lot)... since i compress 44.1kHz-wavs to mp3s @320 kbit/s and regularly end up with 10 MB or more for about 3-4 minutes of alias-compressed Audiomaterial. Concluding i would assume that Music on CDs in indeed very much alias-compressed, however not to an audible level.

[@PercyPanleo]

Almost 3 years later and we still don't have lossless on Spotify, I love it

[@tristan7647]

We have been blessed 2 Aussie videos today! It's night here in Sweden I'm tired. Edit: please review the Moondrop Aria iem, they are amazing for 69 bucks (nice)

[@Mizu14.]

Yeah but it's hidden in the channel... where is it?

[@MegitsuneSwe]

Indeed it is, 00:08 to be precise.

[@tristan7647]

@@MegitsuneSwe true fellow bad sleep schedule swed

[@DerDichter_]

@@Mizu14. look into the notifications on the top right tab of the app, should be there

[@g-rated3514]

Yeah gotta wait up for Aussieman out here in France as well

[@HoloScope]

D E E Z E R. REAL FLAC. Literally FLAC I just rip flacs from there.

[@Kacper_Kolodziejczyk]

THIS. Moved onto it recently, used Tidal for a few months before, it just didn't work properly for me at all and on top of that learned that they were lying about "Master" being actually lossless. All my music is on both platforms and Spotify so I'll stick with Deezer for now and my FLACs :) (Tidal also REALLY sucked for me for listening to while driving, would randomly just stop)

[@Blubbstock]

i do use deezloader too, because spotify keeps making my playlist songs unavailable

[@lucasn0tch]

The fundamental problem with Tidal is that they let Warner Music wipe all of the non-MQA FLACs from Tidal and replace it with MQA-encoded FLACs, which play in both "Lossless" and "Master" settings. Only if you play it in "Master" setting will the MQA unfold. But MQA is just as intolerant as the CCP. MQA censors anyone who is critical of them, whether unbiased or biased. They even change their narrative to deflect the criticism they deserve.

[@iamjcw2k10]

i used it for about half a year back in 2018 and without a doubt my biggest complaint was the lack of gapless playback, meaning songs that fade into each other would have like a half second pause in between which was awful. it was one of the main reasons why i moved back to spotify, which is annoying because spotify is absolute garbage to use most of the time.

[@StormBurnX]

@@lucasn0tch And even the unfolded MQA is STILL neither the original master, nor actually lossless, so :)

[@antonio_cast1]

“Life is short, but it’s the longest thing you’ll do.” Never would’ve thought I’d hear something so apt from dankpods lmao. Love this dude

[@gambe96]

Dankpods normally : "So yeah mate i totally just crashed my mum's corolla" Dankpods in this video : "Life is short, but it's still the longest thing you'll ever do"

[@roskoer5218]

Been using deezer for a few years and I gotta say shit’s bussin

[@bruhwhatswrongwitchu2458]

i heard that there are login problem with deezer sometimes and im wondering if that issue has been fixed

[@via7294]

@@bruhwhatswrongwitchu2458 in my experience it only happened on desktop. Happened maybe once a month.

[@DanTraa]

I used Tidal before Deezer, and I got to admit, Deezer's experience is way better. I like the UI more. I can stream every song in FLAC, instead of just a few selectable tracks. Dankpods needs to try them out for sure

[@sawconvention424]

lol deezer nuts gottem

[@it-s-a-mystery]

The thing I hate about Deezer is the search function. It seems really messed up. I will try to search for an artist or album and I won't get helpful autocompletes. When I go on an artists page and go to discography there are missing albums, but then I search for the album by name in the search bar and it finds it just fine. These aren't small things to me because having to spend 5 minutes navigating to what you already know you want to listen to is very annoying. This problem only gets worse when you arent sure what you want to listen to, or if an artist puts out a new album and you don't know about it, and it never shows up on their page

[@RydalS]

"Life may be short, but it's still the longest thing you'll ever do." -Dankpods, June 17, 2021 (colourised)

[@DeadpoolPlayz]

UmMmmM.. ACCTHUAWWLY ITS COLOR!!??!?!?!?!?!?!

[@SchrottTV]

stop stealing top comments

[@RydalS]

@@SchrottTV I didn't even read the other comment when I wrote it but since mine is an improvement of theirs, I left it.

[@bl.edxardo]

@@RydalS How is it an improvement? Both of them suck you just added (colorized) to it, and its a quote, how is it colorized?

[@RydalS]

@@bl.edxardo Anyone can tell, it is definitely a green colour. Oh and it is an improvement because it contains his full name "Dankpods" and no swear words, along with the official date so future generations can give him proper credit for improving on Lionel Richie's original quote.

[@queenluci6664]

I haven't had problems with tidal. It came free with my phone plan and it's worked well so far.

[@Gunbudder]

i'm a fan of buying vinyl for the albums i really love and then backing them up with 24 bit FLACs so i don't have to worry about losing them ever

[@stephmakeslyrics4982]

Really wish you'd talked about mqa, not going to lie. You've got a much bigger platform than goldensound and could really bring the issue into the mainstream.

[@wright96d]

Thank you pointing me to the goldensound video. I knew high res was snake oil, but this is just taking it to a whole nother level. Really disturbing stuff. Edit 2: My edit below is wrong. I have found master albums with no accompanying regular release, but I'm keeping it there so no one wonders where it went. Edit: One (really the only) problem with that video is the assertion that non-master versions are simply no longer available for master albums. The hifi/aac versions, are, for some reason, somewhat hidden, but they're still there. Going to an artists album page, I can't even see Atmos versions, only masters. But they are still there.

[@DarcyFerrier]

yeah i thought dank would get into this too

[@daedalia]

Like dank says, if you have the right gear, hi res makes a lot of sense, but MQA is more about control than music quality, and it's lossy!

[@DarcyFerrier]

@@daedalia the product claims they make are just simply untrue

[@wright96d]

@@daedalia No. High res is snake oil whether it's snake oil or snake oil+.

[@saladgreens912]

Honestly was expecting something about their MQA compression. Not sure how much of it's flaws are audible but still an important point to talk about especially with their response to it.

[@joelpernryd4255]

Especially the part about it not actually being lossless at all

[@zvava]

@@joelpernryd4255 "it's better then lossless!"

[@nodezsh]

Honestly I completely expected DP to be the kind of person to enjoy MQA. And it's alright, but it's not lossless and it actually greatly messes up the original master it's supposed to bring you, and the non-unfolded version is noisy, so artist intent is completely defaced in the process. And MQA is not FOSS. Otherwise I'd actually consider TIDAL. DP really wouldn't care about all this though, so long as it sounds better. which it doesn't, and he even says FLACs sound better anyways so that's ironic ain't it

[@saladgreens912]

@@nodezsh That's kind of what I was thinking. MQA works fine for the end user from my understanding. The issue is more in essentially tainting the "original master" and false advertising. We have had an analysis from showing its flawed from a technical side, and from the artists side people have spoken out. But I think that DP could provide an interesting perspective on this subject from someone who is professional enough to have some understanding, but also consumes his audio equipment/content from a end user perspective.

[@deixyis3806]

Lol, was thinking the same thing since i watched that one video about MQA, lossless but not really lossless but it's also better.

[@ZeginMakesMusic]

I recently bought a pair of nice studio monitor headphones. After listening to the music I listened to as a child,. I noticed subtle details now including the vibration of the snare off of the studio walls. I noticed bongo's hidden within incubus tracks. it really does make a world of difference.

[@Ryxstar]

I feel you mate, I recently lost my playlist of 300 songs and it was Painful

[@soop_6164]

"life may be short but its still the longest thing you'll do." i think i just got an existential crisis watching a tidal review

[@blortslompson2388]

I love how that nugget of wisdom was just tossed in so fast, I had to pause and think 😂

[@soop_6164]

@@blortslompson2388 I had to rewind and listen to its again lmao

[@MysteryMii]

“Tidal Master tracks sound great!” Do I have to link the GoldenSound video?

[@Stoyon]

I kept thinking he was going to mention that, I am unsure if I should be disappointed or not. It may be too technical for the general audience, and he listed a lot of other issues with the service that probably resonate more with the general Tidal user, but on the other hand replacing lossless with lossy files is important to let people know.

[@GoldenSound]

idk man that guy is kinda weird

[@xmlthegreat]

@@GoldenSound looool I was literally about to take your name in my own comment

[@nokyan]

@@GoldenSound lol

[@MysteryMii]

@@GoldenSound OMG you’re here!

[@Di3mondDud3]

You are the reason i got an old ipod to put all the digital rips of my CDs on again. I bought a 1st gen mini for 12 bucks. A 4th gen for 15, a 3rd for 15.50, and a 5th for 20. The third just worked with a charge. Loaded it up and dailying it like its new, original battery still holds 4+ hours of charge.

[@lizichell2]

One word. Physical media

[@quantumfluffyflapjack]

I'm digitising all my old CDs this summer. I know CD quality isn't always the best, but yeah, I own it. It's there forever, bitrot notwithstanding.

[@DanielLopez-up6os]

CD quality is fine, the late nineties Loudness wars is the issue usually, where they just try to go as loud as possible Dynamic Range Beware.

[@TitanIsBack]

@@DanielLopez-up6os You say late 90s while I have a CD collection from 2007 that is completely ruined because of it. Of course none of that is available outside of that one set so you suffer with it.

[@LyK0sa]

I keep meaning to pick up an external drive and do the same. I probably won't do my whole collection, but there's a lot of albums I already own that I'd love to have in my FLAC library.

[@plasmazulu6643]

Bit rot isn’t something that occurs over time. If your CDs were fine when you bought them and they didn’t get scratched or something, the data should be fine for a very long time.

[@immortallix]

I thought bit rot was a meme?

[@leonardozaine]

everybody Gangsta until goldensound exposes mqa

[@Sheepy007]

Nah, I am critical of his MQA exposure vid. What he did was claiming that mqa adds compression, which everyone knew, thats no secret, mqa is not lossless. You do need mqa compatible tech that applies the right algorithm and whatnot do reconstruct a high res signal from a transformed normalized signal. Compressed MQA is wors than Uncompressed High Res, but just CD quality is not hi res imho and thats what many streaming services actually offer and is a bit misleading.

[@beartwigs]

@@Sheepy007 MQA themselves claimed to be lossless. Then they took that claim down and now say that they're even better than lossless (as if such a thing is even possible). He was even using MQA hardware and there were numerous issues with that in regards to noise that was introduced which was never present in the source files. Plus there's the issue that you can fool MQA hardware into thinking that it has the full file to decode/"unfold". It's just a giant marketing scam that people are happily buying into and defending without looking at the evidence.

[@chileo1]

@@Sheepy007 "What he did was claiming that mqa adds compression, which everyone knew, thats no secret, mqa is not lossless." That on its own is enough to conclude that MQA are fucking liars and not to be trusted then. SO people are correct to hate them

[@Sheepy007]

@@chileo1 hate them for the right reason. MQA uses false marketing, but I do not consider the product itself to be without merits.

[@fishappy0_962]

@@beartwigs PS audio made the video about MQA not being lossless 3 years before golden sound, they claim to be lossless because of the container, PS Audio said this too. Please do some research yourself and watch it from a reputable source. As goldensound claims to hear the diff from hi-res because of an upscaler, but nyqist is a real thing.

[@AvantleFox]

Considering Stress by Justice to be amazing, you've earned 1mil respect points.

[@Fernarav]

Nice. I had a lot of issues with Tidal on my phone and I thought they were because I live outside US and they just didn't care about bringing support over these parts. I started using it because it has the option to sync with Serato and it's great for Djing (that works like a charm, I had small dj gigs and it's awesome to have the entire Tidal library at your disposal. You can even CUE and Sample on the fly, and I never had any issues)

[@NickJerrison]

"Life may be short, but it's still the longest thing you'll ever do." That might be the most inspirational sentence I've heard in months.

[@MarneusAndMilkyBlood]

The adventures of grayed out tunes from one day to the next is something Spotify does too and it’s so infuriating. Worse is when they come out as another release and fav status and playlist placement isn’t carried over.

[@Jewsh]

And that's why, even if you use subscription services for all your musical needs, you should also keep a copy of the songs you like locally. You will miss them when they are gone.

[@Ben4A]

Deezer mod doesn't have that problem

[@ashtar3876]

That's when you sail the high seas

[@Swordsage]

To be honest, I never stopped purchasing and owning my own music files. I never got on board with services like Spotify and Tidal, precisely because of the problems you pointed out. Why would I EVER allow corporations that have fought against user ownership and freedom to use products and services that were paid for the way they want, to control any aspect of how I access and listen to my music?? Why would anyone else (I ask myself time and time again), considering their track record?

[@dakedres]

I want to see your review KZbin Music, it has the same quality as Spotify, pretty awesome UI, and scarily accurate automatic playlists and recommendations, which seems like to solves everything Spotify sucks at, but I feel its collection is a bit iffy and it's usability is weird with how it uses your KZbin playlists.

[@CatShapedDonut]

You can't add lots of music to playlistsike parodys or video game music which is real annoying imo

[@canofeggs5410]

Dank: *Posts two videos at once* Me: “What a hardworking legend”

[@Discoh]

4:58 "Life may be short but it's still the longest thing you'll ever do." Damn, dude. Words to live by.

[@voydead]

I was already going to upvote, but I'd give ya a second one if I could for that Coheed and Cambria screen cap. Keep up the amazing work, Mate! Love the videos.

[@a1white]

Bandcamp, especially for more grass routes artists, is also excellent as the artists get a bigger cut of the revenue generated (for 1 day a month, on Bandcamp Friday, the artists get 100% of the revenue). You can can stream or download in any format you wish including lossless

[@djunix3367]

At 2:15 That happened to me when my whole google account was deleted out of nowhere and I lost my playlist of music of nearly 500 SONG!

[@QJDWG]

Double upload? We are truly blessed!

[@prinnalty]

Ikr

[@bournes9845]

?

[@ThereMayBeLions]

@@bournes9845 He usually only uploads once a week, this is pretty rare

[@Foobymaster1]

Three with patreon

[@bournes9845]

@@ThereMayBeLions yea, I just couldn’t find the other cos it wasn’t loading

[@Super_Pizzaman5]

I went on 7digital and im crazy suprised at their selection because i like listening to smaller metal bands and they actually had most of their songs

[@dehypnotizer]

I can't agree more with you. I'm musician myself and I also love high quality music and jazz, blues, among others. None of the above is present in Tidal. Even, so called, "master" tracks often sound like they were resampled from some low quality, chintzy, 128 kbps MP3s. But absolutely the most annoying, infuriating thing for me is graying out some classic, cool jazz or blues pieces. One day you have it, the next day you can't play it anymore! Just perfect. And let's be honest - Tidal doesn't have them in numbers even comparable to Spotify. I got hooked on Tidal by my car's manufacturer who gave me the best plan for the entire year for free but after another year I have enough and I'm going back to Spotify. And last but not least: Tidal is written terribly. Like they hired a bunch of undergraduates to program it during an internship. Your opinion only motivated me to move back to Spotify during this weekend, I'm not gonna wait any longer. Take care, buddy!

[@musixmylyfe]

hey homie, deezer's streaming flac and sounds excellent

[@musixmylyfe]

oh and check out golden sounds vid on mqa, eye opening stuff

[@musixmylyfe]

@isaach77 bruh you know candace?

[@DivinityOfBLaze]

It uses MQA, which isn't lossless. Lies about being lossless... and a lot of high quality stuff on tidal defaults to MQA... yeah unideal.

[@windowsXD100]

For what I understood. All the master tracks are MQA... Did I understand well?

[@DivinityOfBLaze]

@@windowsXD100 Often enough yeah. Sometimes without the artists permission even. The company behind MQA is incredibly shady. Unfortunately theres only two good videos on the subject both by GoldenSound. Recommended watch if you're interested in the topic.

[@fishappy0_962]

Not defending mqa, but realistically, can you tell the diff when use roon or audirvana ? Or they just 3-6% diff off each other, some of the noise are reflected back down from hi-res but what song ? Synthetic testing going to tell you so far.

[@DivinityOfBLaze]

@@fishappy0_962 The problem is more that they called it "lossless" when it was certainly NOT lossless. Then kept changing small bits here and there on their websites will still claiming MQA is lossless... not ideal, not trustworthy. And what the hell does "better than lossless" mean I dunno. I guess they add sounds that even the musician and sound mixers couldn't imagine.

[@gooseythelucy]

@@DivinityOfBLaze more bits = more better - mqa

[@APOnCars]

Amen brother. I just left Tidal to go back to Spotify, was using it on iPhone and the app was sooooo frustrating. Constant app crashes, music that stopped playing randomly, and a super laggy scroll to go through my playlists. Couldn’t handle it anymore and made the switch. I’m happy that Spotify will be moving to lossless soon

[@Vicenev]

I keep coming back to this video just to hear Wade say “I’m spilling the beans…”

[@thestruggleisrealfam2933]

"You don't buy every single album in flac" Me who has my whole CD collection on my phone full quality. All 255gb of it. 😅

[@plasmazulu6643]

[gets self-conscious about only having 20gb]

[@BichaelStevens]

@@plasmazulu6643 [only having 4gb]

[@imgladnotu9527]

@@plasmazulu6643 *nervously laughs in 20GB's of mostly Game OST's i love*

[@TerrorLTZ]

@@plasmazulu6643 [Laughs in holding an imaginary Phone]

[@nikovbn839]

Right? xP

[@fezguy89]

First words: “I’m spilling the b e a n s” Me: _this gon be good_

[@canofeggs5410]

Yea

[@connorross123]

The b e a n s are a staple on this channel

[@handlemonium]

Here's to spilling the beans on that almost every IEM on AliExpress is on sale right now with extra discounts below (I just bought the BGVP Zero for 40% off). *Coupons for All buyers (values in USD)* 3 OFF 30: *618ALI3* 6 OFF 50: *618ALI6* 11 OFF 90: *618ALI11* 13 OFF 110: *618ALI13* Credits to Promosale for posting these :)

[@TetherOnline]

2:50 This part hits me the hardest because back when I use to use Groove and they would sell music, I would buy albums then maybe a year later nearly half of the music was taken off of the service. By the time Groove announced they were going to be shutting down I had lost and I joke you not on this, 200+ songs. In the end when i messaged them about it they basically told me, 'To bad.' and then ignored every email I sent afterword's.

[@rachaelamber22]

"phones have enough storage now" My phone.. "internal storage is 100% full. Some system functions may not work

[@ncc74656m]

There's a fantastic video from GoldenSound on why MQA is a problem, too. Also, mad props on the Coheed shoutout there. One Among the Fence.

[@rand5106]

"You don't buy every single album in flac" Me, too uneducated to know the difference between these music types: (nodding in agreement)

[@pyromaniac1441]

Basically what Nikdo said. It's uncompressed, which put simply, means higher quality audio. It doesn't make the song sound "different". It just makes it sound more clear. It's like 4k but for your ears.

[@Jewsh]

That's true, but only because some of them are not available in flac.

[@handlemonium]

Just get better earbuds since almost every IEM on AliExpress is on sale right now with extra discounts below (I just bought the BGVP Zero for 40% off). *Coupons for All buyers (values in USD)* 3 OFF 30: *618ALI3* 6 OFF 50: *618ALI6* 11 OFF 90: *618ALI11* 13 OFF 110: *618ALI13* Credits to Promosale for posting these :)

[@nodezsh]

WAV, AIFF: lossless, uncompressed. As close to the original master as you'll get. FLAC, TTA, APE, WavPack (.wv), ALAC (.m4a): lossless, compressed. Identical to its bigger WAV equivalent, but smaller. That's what makes them lossless after all. Tom Scott has a video on data compression if you wanna know how that works. MP3, AAC (also .m4a), Ogg Vorbis (.ogg), Opus (.opus): Lossy compression; some audio data is lost, which for most folks makes no audible difference on an MP3 if the file has a bitrate of 320KB/s. As the bitrate goes lower, more data is lost, which quickly becomes noticeable. The smallest filesize comes from Opus, followed by Vorbis or AAC, and last comes MP3. Support for these formats goes the other way around though, MP3 being the most widely supported and Opus barely seeing any support anywhere. WMA is for losers. Whenever you transcode between lossy codecs, you can't get the lost data back, even when you transcode into a lossless codec, the latter of which will make the file bigger with no quality recovered in the process. (I've seen FLACs which are smaller to their MP3 counterparts though. Those are special cases where the audio is very simple. An MP3 encoded @ 320KB/s will always have the same filesize. FLACs don't have this limitation.) When you transcode between lossless codecs, data stays the same, but filesize and CPU usage might vary. FLAC has the best compromise between size and CPU and it's open source. You might wanna consider ALAC if you're using an Apple device, because Apple developed it and supports it on their devices.

[@potatoeskimos]

Good headphone can trump FLACs, just get an AKG, Sony or Sennheiser and listen away. 4k is around but 1080p OLED is beautiful regardless.

[@xXZer0Lecam0nXx]

One of my biggest problems with Tidal is the fact that the generated playlists (My mix 1-8) are only updated like once a month. So unless Im actively making new playlist for myself by compiling songs, I have to listen to, realistically, the same 4 playlists each month because the other 4 end up with the stuff I dont listen to as often. Its just frustrating because I left spotify due to constant pop ups asking me to upgrade to a family plan when I have one phone and one PC using the account. But at least I was getting exposed to similar new music all the time. Ive also had Tidal say it is playing a song thats in the playlist Im listening to and it will be a completely different genre of music

[@DudeMcPerson]

Hey Dank, I've been trying to find out if this is possible but I can't seem to find anything online about it: Are you able to put the guts and the screen of an ipod touch 7 into the back case of an ipod touch 5? I love the 5th gen's shade of blue 💙 might make for an interesting video idea, idk if you're up for tinkering with touches though

[@denny5587]

"the office is back on netflix" did i jus get trolled by dankpods :frown:

[@irtbmtind89]

It's still on Netflix in some countries.

[@batsardcat3285]

Canada netflix has it

[@phrog.4809]

You uploaded this video on the day I signed up for Tidal. *thanks*

[@Austin-fd4ep]

I tried Tidal about a year ago or so and I really liked it but I had one issue. My problem with tidal was the pricing per month, which isn’t that bad if you have a steady income but I’m a college student and it’s hard to justify $13 a month. If they offered student pricing I probably would’ve kept it but like you mention Apple and Spotify are bringing out lossless so there really isn’t a reason to go back. I think Tidal is really cool but I just can’t justify the price. The coolest experience I had with Tidal was when I discovered The String Cheese Incident’s album “Untying the Not”. I was sitting in my car fiddling with Tidal and it suggested that album and I put it on. To preface this, my car has a decent stereo setup that provides a pretty decent well balanced sound. When the song “Wake Up” started my ears perked up and I noticed so much detail and clarity, it was like hearing Jam/Rock for the first time again. Since then I’ve listened to the album elsewhere and it still sounds amazing and I still get that “Oh wow that’s clearer than clear” feeling. It wasn’t enough to keep me on Tidal but it did show me how layered and rich music can be when you produce it and listen to it with care.

[@Sherbert_]

Thank you DankPods for introducing me to the hobby! I thought my AirPods sounded fine, but then I got some KZ KSN Pros and I'm living out of them!

[@ash36230]

"Buy albums of FLACs" *Laughs in CD* (Incoming vinyl lovers)

[@CaptainApathetic]

"Buy Albums" *Laughs in Piracy* (Pls don't pirate small artist's music tho)

[@tsarofrussia7302]

Cd’s nutz

[@SuperSohaizai]

@@CaptainApathetic I stopped downloading pirated copies because, you know, piracy. But there is not one platform that allows you to buy digital album and download lossless from all your favourite artist though. I started using bandcamp, hoping to know some other platform. Any idea?

[@annakazama4799]

@@SuperSohaizai I don't know if there's something similar to Bandcamp tbh, sometimes I see some obscure stuff on Amazon and I think you can buy tracks

[@annakazama4799]

Vinyls if I remember correctly should be a quality similar to .waw so potentially the quality is higher, but tbh I do not have a fav between .waw and .flac

[@ghost.orchid]

This is why I download/purchase and play my music, so I can have it regardless

[@bbbbbbb51]

I like exploring a lot of new music & streaming services are great for that. I do still buy a couple albums every year that really stood out above the rest. If it's not on bandcamp, I ain't buying it tho.

[@SuperSohaizai]

@@bbbbbbb51 oh so there is not other platform that do like bandcamp where you pay the artist to get lossless? I started using bandcamp but find some artist not available there

[@user-mv1cr4xi1g]

Y'all can at least try iTunes. 0.99 cents for 1 song.

[@ghost.orchid]

@@user-mv1cr4xi1g I'm an Android user, sooo

[@matiaspereyra9392]

Except for the "you are not connected" issue I haven't experienced bugs of any kind, my main grip is that a lot of stuff I listen are not in the platform and sometimes it also applies to specific songs that aren't there for some reason but other discography of the artist IS (then again I suppose that's on the artist and whatever deals they have and etc etc)

[@maddbunny]

5:08 hahahahaha *cries in google play music

[@StijnHofman]

Owning my own music is the best decision i ever made, its worth every second of work. 8 years of playing as a music librarian has gifted me with 6TB of a completely unique collection that i will have in my life forever and hopefully pass on to my offspring, like music should be !

[@magfal]

2:42 i got livid when Spotify removed messaging without warning. Used a few conversations as playlists including the one containing 80% of early conversation with my GF.

[@parz173]

Ive slowly started downloading all my music just because ive been fed up with streaming services. I still use streaming to collect and discover but i try and get the song bought or downloaded as soon as possible. Its why i bought a fiio m7 and i love it.

[@superfart222]

is there a good beginner flac player you would recommend to a starting audiophile?? love your content!