Meanwhile ...

Jay-Z has always been at war with Eurasia Tidal

https://bgr.com/2015/04/22/kanye-west-tidal-tweets-deleted/

Jay-Z? 

Meanwhile ...
Kanye has always been at war with Oceania Tidal*
https://bgr.com/2015/04/22/kanye-west-tidal-tweets-deleted/

 

 

 

 

*troll quote / rewriting history metaphor, OK?

<-- Troll quote victim.

 

Also, there's an update at the bottom of the article.

So Apple charges an extra 30% for subscriptions to Tidal through the app...

 

http://consequenceofsound.net/2015/04/tidal-has-already-raised-its-monthly-subscription-prices/

 

**BRENT**

#eyes rolling# arrgh!

Linn Ds owners (or possibly just those that download the kazoo app  can get a complimentary 60 day trial of tidal.

 

http://news.linn.co.uk/news/2014/12/linn-ds-now-integrates-with-tidal.php

 

Does that help?

So I get to work this morning, open up Tidal, and see Jack White's pre-hiatus Fargo concert as an exclusive. I enjoyed it. If on the app at least, click the gear for resolution options... I'm sure SQ goes up with the higher red options.

**BRENT**

http://thirdmanrecords.com/news/tidal-subscription-promotion-for-vault-members

 

Really great Tidal promotion for Third Man Vault subscribers. In an nutshell, if you are a subscriber to the Third Man quarterly vault subscription, you can enter a promo code to get Tidal HiFi for $5/month.

 

If you aren't familiar with the vault, you subscribe and pay $60 per quarter, and quarterly they ship you some kind of awesome vinyl package. I've been subscribing since this summer, and if you like Jack White and third man type stuff the packages are awesome.

 

Anyway, I had to cancel my account and start a new one to make the promo work, which sucks, but worth it to get Tidal for $5/month.

I might deep six TIDAL. Find myself preferring Spotify for mobile and can get reliable 16/44.1 FLAC in browser from Qobuz on the desktop. You guys would love Qobuz, has a shit ton of jazz and classical.

I will probably ditch Tidal as well as soon as Qobuz gives service in Spain.

Bye bye Tidal. 

 

For jazz lovers there was no fun trying to find interesting selections in their catalogue. I dont have more success with Spotify but at least they offer a realy interesting choice of ''deep space'' electronica music.

 

Amicalement

 

P.S.

Now maybe Qobuz....

Any ETA on when Qobuz is coming to the US?

Part of the charm of Qobuz is the translations from the original French. For example, it allows you to sort albums within a given genre by "Pertinence." 

How about sorting for impertinence?

That would also be useful.

Meanwhile "Apple Declares War on Tidal" according to that well known source, The Daily FMail

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3115680/Apple-faces-music-iPhone-make-unveiling-streaming-music-service-Spotify-Tidal.html

I don't see any mention of lossless.   

Neither do Audiostream: http://www.audiostream.com/content/apple-music-streaming-service-people-who-dont-care-about-sound-quality

Another CEO is out.

Bye bye Tidal.

 

Well, same here. Just canceled my subscription before another month of charges. Man, in theory artist focused, CD-quality music sounds great, but I just couldn't deal with the interface. Discoverability dropped near zero for me - it's just using search for everything. Stuff I already knew. If any algorithm was learning my tastes I didn't see any evidence of it. Scrolling through videos and playlists I didn't care about every time to get to albums got old quickly, etc. Funny, the new Tidal (which admittedly hasn't existed long enough to reform experience) was about taking back control from the 'tech companies', but the tech failures are the problems at least for me. Admittedly for someone with different aims, including singles and newer artists-focus or simply finding already known music, it may work much better.

Beats was about perfect for me on mobile - one-click access to a multitude of relevant albums (nice mix of known and unknown), though I'm sure Apple Music will unfortunately shift in days away off this. Lost MOG. Losing Beats. Time to review the options again. Will give Apple Music trial a try, but eyeing Rdio once more.

One thing I have to give props to Tidal is their triple streaming quality settings. Great to separate Wifi streaming, cellular streaming and download quality. Wish more services did this.

In case it's not known - Amarra for TIDAL http://www.sonicstudio.com/amarra/aft

Thanks Ric

Interesting, thanks! I may trial that. SQ is very quirky with Tidal, but sounds great when it works.

They've added videos.  Watching Daft Punk's Electroma now -- going to have to defer the rest, it's over an hour.