Looking for a good music streaming service. Is Tidal a meme or is it worth it?

Deezer Reloaded

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Tidal's missing a lot of music and metadata for what it does have. They're BSing you when they say they get better masters, though it's still better quality than other streaming competition. Its desktop app from my experience was complete trash.

Spotify's good if you want to find new music based on what you already listen to, but if you listen to more refined genres already, you won't find much new.

The 10k liked song limit really isn't a big deal unless you for whatever reason tend to 'like' entire discographies or something ridiculous. That said, I can't think of any good reason why there should be an arbitrary limit to the number of songs you can like.

Your best bet is honestly to just try the services out and see which suits you best.

>tfw most of the stuff I get from RED is stuff I requested someone else to grab from Tidal for me

Tidal has a promotion I keep seeing in Instagram about 3 months of HiFi for a dollar.

Tidal is doodoo

why do you think that Qobuz is better than Tidal?

tried google play and these new hits are total worthless trash

Bandcamp is good

what's wrong with youtube that you need a paywalled dedicated streaming service ?

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this. great library, even on lesser popular genres, supported by literally every streaming device, good pricing.

alternatively, if you already pay for amazon prime, use prime music.

because less than 128kbps VIDEOS aren't exactly optimal for listening to music

Tidal lossless student pricing is good

Sup niggas, I'm Santa, late from Christmas and handing out (You)s for all to enjoy.

Supporting and promoting MQA, which is detested by audio enthusiasts - including the audiophiles and people who just enjoy music. Not required since they always offer FLAC alongside it, but it's increasingly common with the "Master" releases and totally possible they will use it to replace FLAC.

>ask a torrent general what website I should use instead of the one I'm on
I see what you did there.

Good insights.

Most music streaming services do that, including rival Spotify and YouTube Premium. Keep on signing up under a new email.

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My opinion:

On and off subscriber of Tidal here. It was a gimmicky literal reskin of WIMP (like a Qobuz competitor, they deal with high-quality streaming at higher prices) until Jay-Z bought them out. Then the site got redesigned again into something more sleek.

Tidal doesn't brandish the versatility that Spotify has with where you can play your music on demand. You can still Cast and AirPlay your music, but you can't play things remotely like you can with Spotify. It's wicked sweet to continue where you left off on your PC from your phone, even if it is a piece of shit lagdroid.

Pricing for HiFi (FLAC streaming) is higher, but if you have student pricing it is competitive with Spotify. They SheerID check you, like they do Spotify. In my opinion $20/month for a regular HiFi subscription is too high, and catalog isn't large enough to command $10/month for standard quality.

Still, their videos are decent quality, and they have people constantly writing copy and making videos on behalf of Tidal as "exclusives". Though these eventually make it to YouTube the timed exclusivity of them is pretty nice if you'd rather not get it somewhere else.

tl;dr to each their own, but it's not a meme, it's a memer's choice of streaming service ;)