Tidal

and if you smear or lol at both Spotify and Tidal on Twitter, you get to go on tour in support of your tweet

Tidal marketing itself as an exclusive video platform makes way more sense than bullshit audiophile reasons

Jack: TIDAL is going to help a lot of artists out. I'm talking about the punk band that has 50k hits on Youtube and doesn't see a dime.

LOL Jack White trying to help all those unknown punk bands who want to earn a living from youtube videos.

http://www.npr.org/sections/therecord/2015/06/02/411473508/how-well-can-you-hear-audio-quality

Got 5 out of 6.

trick question, none of the neil young samples evidence any sort of quality at all

5/6, missed the Jay-Z one

I missed the Neil one.

I got 1

Had a tough time telling any of them apart tbh.

I nailed the 320 mp3 EVERY TIME. Except that I considered this version to sound the best. Hmmm.

I always picked 320 .mp3, too. Perhaps because this is the dominant format in my own collection.

I find it next to impossible to distinguish between 320 .mp3 and .wav unless there's a lot of sibilant cymbals or high end guitar distortion harmonics. I could tell the difference between 320 .mp3 and .wav on Loveless, I think.

The best test audio isn't music at all, but more natural sounds like raindrops on tin roofs. Here, with so many frequencies represented, the compression algorithms constantly change which frequencies they choose to encode as representative, which yields strange muffling/"breathing" artifacts. Musical recordings are both much more harmonically simple, and most has accepted conventions for dynamic compression so that we can't immediately distinquish that it sounds off.

...most recordings have accepted conventions...

I went 5 for 6 mostly listening for sibilance, but it wasn't easy. It does go to show how good mp3 compression is, especially on non-HQ devices. There's a reason the format is so ubiquitous now.

shital

Good piece:
http://www.theverge.com/2015/6/3/8714231/jay-z-tidal-music-streaming-fail-succeed

I always picked 320 .mp3, too. Perhaps because this is the dominant format in my own collection.

Yeah, I was wondering the same thing.

got 6 out of 6 by picking randomly since I couldn't hear any difference

CEO bails after 2 months

http://www.nme.com/news/jay-z/86413

I'll never get tired of laughing at Tidal.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SQXqkiKXiHc

Among all the job cuts and exec departures, Tidal's been caught up in the feud between Lil Wayne and Cash Music. But hopefully no one else will have their tour bus shot up.. Holy shit :o

http://www.businessinsider.com.au/birdman-is-suing-jay-z-and-tidal-for-50-million-for-streaming-lil-waynes-mixtape-2015-7

Also (not sure if mentioned elsewhere), Prince might try to save Tidal maybe.

*Cash Money lol

http://pitchfork.com/news/60515-prince-to-release-new-album-hitnrun-via-tidal/

this is still a thing?

Tidal or Prince?

Prince of Tidals mirit

I still use Tidal quite a bit. Apple Music is cluttered and noisy, google music is good for uploads but not curated at all. Tidal fits inbetween. It's where I go when I know what I want to listen to. I feel like a perv paying for three subscriptions though.

This playlist is decent: Searching For a Truer Sound: No Depression & Beyond

There's another one I can't find an online link to that's pretty decent called "Laurel Canyon Classics" - soft rock, singersongwriter, country rock

Best possible publicity for Tidal at this point:

http://pagesix.com/2015/08/28/tidal-faces-20m-lawsuit-over-drakes-apple-music-deal/?_ga=1.153910584.1414958259.1440893908

holy moly

paczkowski says no: http://www.buzzfeed.com/johnpaczkowski/apple-did-not-stop-tidal-from-streaming-drakes-set-at-lil-we

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8dKSr32pkTM
i know he forgets that he owns tidal but why is this a rhapsody ad

Because it's from 2014 (or possibly earlier).

oh yeah? that's what i get for not watching it all the way thru. carry on.

two months apparently what it took to reset me to thinking this was about fiona apple

rhapsody commercial is from 2009.

in other news, my friend works at Tidal. I've been kind of ribbing her about it, and she was psyched to show me the interface and prove me wrong. she forces me to sign up for a 3 month trial. we finally pull it up, and it won't even play one song. error messages galore.

I know GhostTunes is Garth Brooks's pet digital retail product, but the fact there are no news results on Google that aren't a year old and his equally year-old album is still the big splash on the front page makes me think it didn't go over really well. lol

http://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2015/08/whos-winning-the-new-streaming-wars.html

The music streaming wars have become a touchy subject as all the major players are trying to get a leg up in the battle. Apple Music, launched in June, hit out at reports in mid-August that users were giving up on the service before their three-month free trial had finished.
The study from MusicWatch had claimed that 48 percent of people had ditched the service, which Apple has wholeheartedly refuted.

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giving up the service *before* the free trial had finished..

in other news, my friend works at Tidal. I've been kind of ribbing her about it, and she was psyched to show me the interface and prove me wrong. she forces me to sign up for a 3 month trial. we finally pull it up, and it won't even play one song. error messages galore.

Don't leave us hanging, what was her reaction to that?

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51169MpylNL.jpg

Ah balls, wrong thread. SORRY.

I was about to say, a cryptic reaction.

thought this was a really sharp piece on tidal/spotify/our brave new streaming future etc

http://www.stereogum.com/1848677/streaming-war-pigs-apple-tidal-spotify-the-year-in-music-services/franchises/2015-in-review/

Good read indeed - guy is a good writer, believe he also does the regular metal and pop columns

so many true statements in that article it's like bizarro lefsetz

did anyone else get the thing where they were incorrectly billed by Tidal and then given a refund and 3 free months as recompense? I'm wondering how widespread this was.

anyway, I guess I'll mess around with Tidal again.

Finally redeemed my trial subscription for the same reason everybody else has. What a mess. Really miserable interface, lots of errors and bugs.

on Android, I prefer the UI to Spotify. queue management in particular is a lot easier. I also haven't had any issues with streaming lately.

if the catalog caught up, I'd seriously consider dropping Spotify for Tidal, but evey week I run into things that are missing. for example, the CFCF album that came out on Friday is on Spotify and is not on Tidal. outside of the Rihanna and Kanye albums, I can't think of any gaps I've found that run the other direction.