This is because the music is typically mixed with various system sounds before then being converted using built-in hardware that was never designed for high fidelity playback. If you’re listening through laptop speakers or headphones connected directly to your computer or phone though, you’re unlikely to notice a huge difference between Tidal Hifi and Spotify Premium – a little maybe, but not massively so. In this instance, the Tidal app does all of the decoding, including MQA for Master tracks. You’ll also notice albums or tracks available in the best quality Masters format are labelled with an M and you simply choose Master from the quality settings to stream them. You’re looking at the desktop app running on my Apple MacBook and you’ll see the navigation is similar to other music services, although I did enjoy the biographies that often accompany some artists or albums. Next download the Tidal app on your phone, tablet or computer some network or hifi streaming appliances may also have a downloadable or built-in Tidal app.
TIDAL PRICE PER MONTH TRIAL
First sign-up for an account, and there’s often free or discounted trials available ( here’s a 30 day free trial for you to try!). Getting started with Tidal is as straightforward as Spotify. Note unlike Spotify there’s no ad-based free subscription to Tidal, but this in turn means artists are normally paid more per stream than they are on Spotify, although of course there’ll typically be more streams coming via Spotify. These so-called Tidal Masters are delivered using the MQA format developed by Bob Stuart from Meridian audio thanks to cunning compression, MQA can deliver 24 bit audio at sample rates between 44.1 and 192KHz using only roughly double the data of CD quality FLAC, allowing you to stream them with mobile-friendly bandwidth that’s well below typical high definition audio rates.
TIDAL PRICE PER MONTH UPGRADE
This gives you a big upgrade in quality over Spotify, but a selection of albums are also available to Hifi subscribers in even higher quality. Meanwhile the Hifi tier costs around $20 per month, but lets you stream all the tracks in CD quality – that’s 16 bit / 44.1KHz using lossless FLAC compression, at bit rates typically between 7Kbit/s.
Tidal offers two main subscription tiers: Premium costs around $10 a month and streams music at 320Kbit/s using AAC compression, which is roughly equivalent to Spotify’s Premium service in price and quality.
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