![]() Not to mention that before, I used to share links to songs with my friends. On Tidal you can’t see what your contacts are listening to. However, I came across this exclusive cover version of Fleetwood Mac’s “Dreams” that I’m hooked with as I write this post. This is a fun feature if you can spare some time to watch videos while listening to music (not something I normally do, unless I’m on YouTube). On the contrary, Tidal so far is focusing also on video. So, as a result, streaming platforms are paying podcasters loads of money for exclusive distribution rights. People are consuming lots of audio and brands start looking at podcasts for advertising. Spotify is definitively better on podcasts currently, with way wider availability. I am not an audio tech whatsoever, I don’t think I could even differentiate between one quality or the other, so definitively this was not my decision parameter. The main difference is that Tidal offers a catalog in Hi-Fi, which is basically the reproduction audio quality. With Tidal you have to pay to access the catalog in either of their plans. ![]() Spotify is free if you can tolerate ads or having limitations on how many times you can shuffe or skip tracks. Armando Manzanero, by the way, is an artist my grandmother would listen to. Armando Manzanero (a very popular Mexican singer and songwriter) had died that week, so it appeared on top of the Home. Mainstream news or trending artists will show up as long as the app hasn’t understood your music tastes. In fact, Tidal has over 60 million tracks, which is 10 million more than Spotify. However I looked for some basics for me like Christian Loffler, Silversun Pickups, or The Smashing Pumpkins and they all were, so cool. I had the wrong impression that albums or artists would not be available as were on Spotify, that was actually my real “test”. I didn’t take screenshots of that process on my phone, but this is an example it took from TechUpLife to show you: However, as you clicked I couldn’t find the way to go back to the “main results”. I used Spotify for two years and can’t honestly remember how the registration process was.Īfter the registration, an artist mosaic opens as you click the ones you like to more options within that genre. This is really not very different from opening an account on any other platform or online service. Tidal registration is simple and you can pay with Paypal. Tidal didn’t mind the origin of my card, so voilà. Since I’m currently working from Mexico I thought I could save that money, however to switch to a local plan you have to pay with a local card. Of course, this is just considering exchange rates, while prices are really set according to purchase parity power. In terms of pricing, they are very much alike as for the premium subscription, but do consider that there might be promotions depending on the country.įor example, I travel a lot and noticed that Spotify costs €9,99 in Spain, while in Mexico it costs half. How are they alike?īoth services are music streaming services where you can personalize lists, download tracks or albums, and get recommendations based on algorithms. But I had the opportunity of trying Tidal and this is a summary of the aspects I’ve found out after a few weeks of switching from Spotify to Tidal. The only thing I wish Spotify had (besides a lossless option) is a way to add your daily recommendations by genre and new release playlists to a queue and then shuffle play the whole shebang.Giving up on Spotify’s Weekly Discover and my yearly Wrapped wasn’t an easy choice. It has probably saved me more than $10 per month by preventing me from buying stuff that turned out not to be as great as expected. I mainly use it to check out new releases to see if there's something I want to buy for my library. The novelty of the discovery features, it's greatest strength, is wearing off, though. Crappy brickwalled mixes still sound crappy, but what are you gonna do? For casual listening there's little or no discernable difference. I compared it to flac CD rips of good sounding recordings and it is very close. But, I found that using my AVR's Spotify Connect feature with the mobile app gives pretty great sound quality. Spotify has the better interface, about the same depth of catalog, and the discovery features are excellent. But, it won't decode MQA like the desktop app, but that's OK because MQA is snake oil as far as I'm concerned and actually a negative for Tidal in my opinion. For playback, found that using the mobile app with Chromecast to be the best balance of sound quality and convenience/ease of use. Also too much focus on hip-hop or whatever the call it these days. ![]() Catalog is extensive, but discovery features are poor to non-existent. Didn't like the desktop user interface (except it lets you set it for wasapi/exclusive mode to bypass Windows mixer). ![]()
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