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Tidal’s subscription is getting simpler and cheaper — yes, you read that right (www.theverge.com)

submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/technology

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)

Tidal is the most popular option for audiophiles. What I also like about it is the fact that they pay artists much more fairly than other platforms. According to this, they payout $0.013 per stream on average (which means $1 per 77 streams). Because I listen to a lot of unknown artists it is important to me to be on a platform where I can support those artists much more directly.

AFAIK Spotify only pays the overall most listened to artists like Taylor Swift etc. I canceled my Spotify subscription when Neil Young quit Spotify.

EDIT: because this is becoming a bit popular, for anyone looking to migrate from Spotify to Tidal, I recommend this simple to use python script to migrate your playlists. And because we have a lot of Linux users here, check out tidal-hifi.

[–] accideath 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Tidal may be most popular but the use of the lossy MQA codec for their "lossless" offerings is objectively worse than Deezer, Apple music and even Amazon Music.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Good thing they are migrating to FLAC! Also, while MQA is objectively worse, subjectively it's pretty much equal to objectively better options. At least for us humans :) I found this double-blind test of MQA critic Archimago and they couldn't find a statistically significant difference between MQA and PCM :)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Is Neil on Tidal? I know he is in QoBuz.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

He is! ~~And I think he returned to Spotify as well.~~ Nope, still off.