My Experience Switching from Spotify to TIDAL

TIDAL is a music streaming service.
Check out Skee Mask's album Compro (2018):
iliantape.bandcamp.com/album/...
tidal.com/browse/album/89075566
SOURCES
Music streaming services are generally not very lucrative for musicians: untappedsound.com/how-do-musi...
Record labels keep nearly all the money they get from Spotify: www.techdirt.com/articles/201...
Who Pays Best?: www.statista.com/chart/13407/...
How Much Artists Make Per Stream: www.digitalmusicnews.com/2018...
ILIAN TAPE pulls back catalogue from Spotify, including statement by Skee Mask: crackmagazine.net/2022/01/ili...
TIDAL music request form: www.surveygizmo.com/s3/1888513...
TIDAL pricing: tidal.com/pricing

[@jatsko3113]

Corrections: TIDAL does offer a free service that streams up to 160kbps (same as Spotify). TIDAL also offers lower sound qualities on the HiFi plan; 1411 is not the lowest quality.

[@uddesh.m.sahadeo311]

Tidal now has "high" 320kbps AAC streaming quality under their Free Tier.

[@djbackspin911]

One of the things Tidal is lacking is user playlists, I like the ability to discover playlists created by artists and users from Spotify, as well as sharing, collaborating, etc. Spotify has like over 1000 curated playlists, 4 billion + user/artist playlists, while Tidal just has like

[@mikeneilson3722]

You can now do this in the new iOS beta version of the Tidal app

[@yhelloh]

Sorry, Tidal has made me discover more music than apple music ever could have.

[@ohgu4361]

Now available !

[@djbackspin911]

@@ohgu4361 Yeah I see, it's about time; sure it won't be as decent like Spotify's imo, but it is stepping in the right direction.

[@Milo_Molnar]

User playlists are for amateurs. I don t need playlists.

[@philipmckrevis5838]

Very informative video. Just tried Tidal for the first time after Spotify went down today. The music quality difference was immediately noticeable for me actually! I also really like how Tidal gives you TONS of song information, much easier to find composers or different artists on a track! Plus my student plan just expired on Spotify (I had been using it for over 4 years) so now Tidal is half the cost compared to Spotify for me! Really considering making the move

[@Churros1616]

I love tidal

[@Sactown15]

HIFI Plus also has a ranking system where the artist you listen to the most by the end of the month gets an extra 2 bucks.

[@mikealt79]

I recently switched from Spotify to Tidal and Im very happy! The user interface, music discovery and curated playlists are better in my opinion. Spotify has become very unorganized and very Podcast driven. Tidal has a beautiful design and Im able to find all the music I want, they pay artists more and the customer service with Tidal is SO much better too!

[@MacEbes]

Hey, not sure if you tested this but I have compatible 360 audio headphones and tried some songs out on them. I compared them to the normal hifi tracks and while tidal says i need a hifi plus sub to be able to listen in 360, the 360 tracks definitely sound much wider and 360 even when they say im playing in stereo. Is that suppose to happen?

[@peterwood2633]

Great presentation. I've been with Spotify back in the day, then tidal now back on Spotify as a shared account. I do miss tidal quality, everything is more musical and cohesive but you need decently resolving gear to hear it. The AI track playlisting is great in Spotify as is GUI and videos etc. I'm probably going to try tidal again for a bit though now! Just hifi, mqa does nothing for my ears

[@gavinbradshaw5682]

Excellent video mein froind. :)

[@link3019]

I really like tidal,i think tidal has the better user interface compare to Spotify and higher quality.A good alternative over Spotify would by apple music but the app is not great on Android.

[@wotererio]

+1 for Ilian Tape

[@Mysticum81]

I appreciate everything you go over in the video. I'm considering ditching Spotify for the sole reason that their PC client is less and less usable with every update, and that their UI designers are blisteringly incompetent. It's the messiest, least user-friendly UI I've seen in recent memory, and as I wrote, it gets worse with every update. It is quite possibly the worst interface of any app on any platform in the history of computing, and I really don't want to continue paying them money if they're going to continue actively trying to sabotage my experience using their software.

[@TsvetomirSoulndAlekov]

Great video! Spotify is a greedy corporation that cares all about the money and the algorithms. Really feel sorry for all the artists and labels releasing quality underground music. The latest outrage of "Spotify tracks in 2024 will need 1,000 streams before making money" made me finally move away, so now I'm a happy Tidal user.

[@deleteme2638]

I tried Tidal and my library got cut into 1/4 of its size...

[@bloodcell6282]

good to know!

[@meliornmusic6458]

I did like Spotify because of all the variety in user playlists. But now I have Tidal HiFi Plus... And on my JBL LSR 308 studio monitors with a 192KHz audio interface, the sound is so clean and smooth, I love it. Plus, I can link Tidal to DJUCED and use my playlists while performing on a DJ set which is very handy.

[@Bombay_BadBoy]

😂

[@gzull90]

do you know you cant hear more than 20khz? if you hear diff between spotify premium and tidal hifi or plus you should visit some laboratory :D

[@meliornmusic6458]

@@gzull90 Not talking about frequency content, I'm talking about sample rate. What you're saying is the same as saying that a 27 inch 1080p display doesn't have any difference from a 27 inch 4K display... It's audio resolution, wave smoothness, not frequency content lol. And yes, I can tell the difference between a 320kbps mp3 stream (Spotify) and a 1411kbps studio quality stream (Tidal Hifi) just like you can tell the difference between a 1080p image and an 8K image 🤣🤣 If you have a good sound interface and good monitors or headphones, it's way smoother. 192KHz of sample rate feels very close to analog audio.

[@gzull90]

@@meliornmusic6458 Lets be honest bro. Im beginner in audio :) But I think hear difference between 44khz 16bit and 96khz 24bit audio for example is much more harder than see diff between 1080p and 1440p video :) Sure you need nice audio difference but you have really concentrate and find specific song where you can hear difference. I read many articles about that so I think is not only about my ears :D

[@meliornmusic6458]

@@gzull90 If you have good sounding speakers and a good interface that can play that kind of high quality audio, you can tell the difference in smoothness, the sound is way cleaner. But if you're listening on some 50€ headphones connected to your PC/Phone, you can't

[@Antclem1]

No kilo bytes per second (kbps). It's kilo bits per second. There's a big diference on that. A Byte is 8 bits. And a Byte it's represented by a "B", a bit it's represented by a "b". So kbps means "kilo bits per second".

[@shakir43shaq86]

i switched to deezer even though deezer is a bit more expensive than tidal in my country(malaysia) and most of the local songs on tidal are not much available compared to deezer besides deezer still offers quality hifi

[@mrjuno1]

Useful information, thank you. Recently Tidal has added a free streaming service level. I’ve signed up for the $9.99/month HiFi service because I want to download music at the higher bitrate. I’ll mainly be playing in the car and I imagine the choice will be either to stream at the lower quality (which I could have had for free) or play previously downloaded higher quality material via Bluetooth. I’m getting a new Tesla next week (Tesla does not support Apple Carplay). I’ll see how it goes with Tidal.

[@sebastiansierra427]

Hi. Amazing content. What are the app that you use to make your slides.?? Thx

[@jatsko3113]

Adobe After Effects, though you could probably use a less intensive program like Prezi to make something similar

[@blobbe]

Compro in the thumbnail 🎉

[@andynonimuss6298]

Crappy speakers won't be able to deliver the difference in frequency response. You need quality speakers to really hear the difference in Spotify and Tidal.

[@azgrapes]

i like this spinning thing in the video

[@airportsecurityaustria182]

This whole video is edited like a spotify wrapped lol

[@scoobysnacks1634]

limit on songs be ducking me up, at least for me on tidal half my library disappears once i reach like 5k songs b careful

[@aussie8114]

I have about 600 albums with no issues.

[@cheapcigs9772]

I tried KZbin music and it's shit, I have eclectic tastes and because of that it just gives me a bunch of shitmixes without any respect to mood or genre or anything. Hopefully Tidal is better.

[@LSmith-je4jf]

2 year update video? 👀

[@jatsko3113]

Possibly! I like the idea. Since making this video I've shifted my philosophy on buying and streaming music, so this might be worth revisiting.

[@xenvector]

just purchased a year of spotify hifi plus and it's amazing

[@mattcatlover333]

No such thing

[@xenvector]

@@mattcatlover333 I meanr tidal wtf how did I mix the two hahahaha

[@JeanFrancoisDesrosiers]

Well actually if you have a Spotify account and take 2 sec setting the stream to "very high" you are getting lossless OggVorbis encoding, mathematically the same result as the master with best use of bandwidth.

[@xenvector]

@@JeanFrancoisDesrosiers actually tidal streams at 9216 kbps while spotify only streams audio at 320kbps which is a significantly lower number but if you don't use a studio grade audiophile you probable won't be able to tell the difference, still I only use it cause I got it for free.

[@JeanFrancoisDesrosiers]

@@xenvector a 320kbps ogg-vorbis encoded stream can well carry a 44.8kHz sampling rate of what is called "CD quality". At that point the difference is mostly the access to higher quality masters, which seem to take ages to get to at Spotify's management. This licensing problem seem to be what is delaying "Spotify HiFi" announced almost a year ago (from Spotify's shareholder relations statements)

[@NewVisionLCS]

Has anyone else had payment issues with Tidal? Their system will not accept any updated payment form, and they're blaming my financial institutions!

[@aussie8114]

Maybe you could try using PayPal.

[@NewVisionLCS]

@@aussie8114 I did, but my question to them was,"How come your card system doesn't work, and you're blaming the customers bank?"

[@aussie8114]

@@NewVisionLCS That’s the world we live in. Frustrating I know.

[@NewVisionLCS]

@@aussie8114 True indeed!

[@copspybot8293]

You need to try later updating details. Their banking system is crap. I had problems with my trial because of this.

[@hetul784]

It's near senseless talking about Tidal's "HiFi" without talking about MQA. Because their alleged higher quality is nothing more than bullshit marketing jargon. Apple Music is far superior if you are looking for lossless audio. Also, Lossless audio is pretty much senseless data waste for you use wireless headphones or earphones primarily.

[@slothsarecool]

I couldn’t notice a difference with their HiFi trial using Sony Z1Rs 🥲