Yes, Bob Seger's "The Little Drummer Boy" off the original A Very Special Christmas is on Tidal
― Sufjan Grafton, Friday, 3 June 2016 22:04 (eight years ago) link
Seger selection is six songs - up from 3 songs on Spotify
Also Atmosphere apparently has a rap song called "Bob Seger"!
Tidal does have "Heavy Music" and "Sock it to Me Santa" by Seger & the Last Heard, two great ones off the Never Mind the Bullets bootleg comp
― rockpalast '82 (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 7 June 2016 17:29 (eight years ago) link
Trying to look soberly at why i would quite like Tidal to fail, and I realise it's partly due to my feelings of either loathing or at least mild dislike for pretty much every musician involved in that ludicrous contract-signing ceremony.
― đža hairy howling toad torments a man whose wife is deathly ill (James Morrison), Wednesday, 8 June 2016 00:59 (eight years ago) link
How do you feel about the major executives at Spotify? Please name them and discuss your feelings about them. Like Gustav Söderström for example. I hear he often goes through the express line at the supermarket with more than 12 cans of Surströmming. Seriously, fuck that guy. It's 12 items or less. Just for that, I want Spotify to fail.
― dlp9001, Wednesday, 8 June 2016 17:20 (eight years ago) link
tbf maybe Gustav had trouble parsing a sign that should say "12 items or fewer"
― Sufjan Grafton, Wednesday, 8 June 2016 17:35 (eight years ago) link
The sign was likely in Swedish, so probably didn't have controversial American-English usage issues. But seriously, what about Oskar StÄl. I mean, we all know he's a major asshole. I heard that he once complained about the sales tax. Just for that, I want Spotify to fail.
― dlp9001, Wednesday, 8 June 2016 17:42 (eight years ago) link
And don't even get me started on Stefan Blom. I mean, you want to talk about people I hate and want to fail, there's no getting past Stefan. Let's not even go there. Let's just say I'd like Spotify to fail just based on Stefan Blom. He likes to spend time in "the archipelago"? What the hell is wrong with him? I loath Stefan Blom.
― dlp9001, Wednesday, 8 June 2016 17:47 (eight years ago) link
Oh jesus, I forgot about Martin Lorentzon. How I loath him. He "enjoys all kind of sports and cultural pursuits"? What the hell does that even mean. Commit to something, Martin! I want Spotify to fail just based on him and his wishy-washiness.
― dlp9001, Wednesday, 8 June 2016 17:52 (eight years ago) link
can a mod lock this thread? spotify is a big company, and I'm worried that they have more than 5 "major executives".
― Sufjan Grafton, Wednesday, 8 June 2016 17:55 (eight years ago) link
I hope Tidal ads Chromecast support but that's kind of a dealbreaker right now -- or I should say mobile support you can do it from the web player
― rockpalast '82 (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 8 June 2016 17:55 (eight years ago) link
It took awhile for spotify to get to where they are with "spotify connect", so it is probably coming eventually
― Sufjan Grafton, Wednesday, 8 June 2016 17:57 (eight years ago) link
yeah they must've said publically they were working on it, saw it come up on a few audio forum posts but nothing official for time frame
― rockpalast '82 (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 8 June 2016 17:59 (eight years ago) link
though selection and discovery has a loooooooong way to go to catch spotify
Actually, now I think my main reason for hoping Tidal will fail is that it would annoy dlp
― đža hairy howling toad torments a man whose wife is deathly ill (James Morrison), Thursday, 9 June 2016 02:55 (eight years ago) link
it's annoying, that's for sure.
― Bee OK, Thursday, 9 June 2016 03:02 (eight years ago) link
Wall Street Journal Digital â@WSJDApple is in talks to acquire Jay Zâs Tidal music service
― Any Given User (Eazy), Thursday, 30 June 2016 22:25 (seven years ago) link
finally catching up to Dr. Dre eh
― ÎáœÏÎčÏ, Thursday, 30 June 2016 22:26 (seven years ago) link
I wonder if that's related to this:
http://www.businessinsider.com/spotify-and-apple-are-at-war-2016-6
If I understand correctly, Spotify is upset that a large company that they're essentially obligated to work with is screwing them out of profits. That sounds horrible. Maybe David Lowery can offer them some legal advice.
― dlp9001, Friday, 1 July 2016 01:10 (seven years ago) link
the new Tidal Masters (using the MQA codec) sound really great, though there is some controversy re: MQA in the audio industry per the Wikipedia page
http://tidal.com/gb/masters
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Master_Quality_Authenticated
also kinda of a bummer it only works w/Tidal desktop app not mobile....but yeah I don't know I think Tidal HIFI sounds great already I think this might put me over the top to switch from Spotify to Tidal....
― Universal LULU Nation (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 30 August 2017 16:20 (six years ago) link
also Tidal's curation is a lot better, for example they only have one Metallica album, Lulu
― Universal LULU Nation (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 31 August 2017 00:12 (six years ago) link
lol
― Spottie, Thursday, 31 August 2017 04:07 (six years ago) link
i got this free for 6 months. it has Coil - Horse Rotorvator. can't complain.
― jamiesummerz, Thursday, 31 August 2017 12:28 (six years ago) link
Wow. Norwegian journalists with an exposure. It seems like it's a scam. Fake listener logs has inflated the success of The Life of Pablo and Lemonade, not only making Tidal seem like a succes, but also inflating the amount of money the two artists get at the expense of everyone else.
― Frederik B, Wednesday, 9 May 2018 10:04 (six years ago) link
https://www.dn.no/staticprojects/special/2018/05/09/0600/dokumentar/strommekuppet/
looks like a scandal!
― niels, Wednesday, 9 May 2018 10:20 (six years ago) link
https://www.musicbusinessworldwide.com/did-tidal-falsify-streams-to-bulk-up-kanye-west-and-beyonce-numbers/
― niels, Wednesday, 9 May 2018 10:23 (six years ago) link
Record companies used to buy millions of lps to guarantee their success
Not much has changed
― Roswell (Ross), Wednesday, 9 May 2018 10:26 (six years ago) link
Well, now they're actively taking money from other artists to give their own.
― Frederik B, Wednesday, 9 May 2018 10:28 (six years ago) link
this is fraud, right?
― karl wallogina (Autumn Almanac), Wednesday, 9 May 2018 11:01 (six years ago) link
this is on top of them already giving "free albums" to all their subscribers? hah the music industry is such shit these days at least with radio payola people still bought albums.
― Hazy Maze Cave (Adam Bruneau), Wednesday, 9 May 2018 11:11 (six years ago) link
it is fraud, yes
hard to imagine how anyone could have thought they would get away with it - wonder if Jay Z authorized this...
― niels, Wednesday, 9 May 2018 12:12 (six years ago) link
He either knew or should have known. I think the more thorny question is how much Kanye and Beyoncé knew. If the figures are right, it should be hundreds of thousands of dollars that they've personally gotten, right?
― Frederik B, Wednesday, 9 May 2018 13:40 (six years ago) link
Another TIDAL subscriber, music critic Geir Rakvaag, supposedly played tracks from Kanye Westâs The Life Of Pablo 96 times in a single day â with 54 plays in the middle of the night.
― Closed Beta (NotEnough), Wednesday, 9 May 2018 14:26 (six years ago) link
are you suggesting that there's some kind of... geirbot involved
― Mahogany Loggins (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 9 May 2018 14:27 (six years ago) link
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Yeah, and he is supposed to have heard 27 songs at once at 2:00 and 27 at once at 5:00. It's obviously wrong.
― Frederik B, Wednesday, 9 May 2018 14:46 (six years ago) link
once they started counting streams in the charts i figured it was only a matter of time before they had the equivalent of World of Warcraft Chinese gold farms, like somewhere on the other side of the globe in the back of a cell phone repair shop is a wall of phones listening to albums 24/7.
― Hazy Maze Cave (Adam Bruneau), Wednesday, 9 May 2018 17:56 (six years ago) link
Pump and dump...https://www.cnbc.com/2017/01/23/sprint-to-buy-33-percent-stake-in-tidal.html
― Elvis Telecom, Thursday, 10 May 2018 00:33 (six years ago) link
(that was from 2017, but 33% of nothing...)
― Elvis Telecom, Thursday, 10 May 2018 00:34 (six years ago) link
wow@ that article. it's quite exciting!
― Heavy Messages (jed_), Thursday, 10 May 2018 01:00 (six years ago) link
I've been subscribing for a while now....the discovery/organization isn't even close to Spotify and the app can be a little janky.
However, using it with my good headphones and Dragonfly or streaming into a DAC on my home stereo, the sound quality is FAR better thank Spotify's highest tier, like not even close
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 13 February 2019 18:30 (five years ago) link
yeah the app is p awful
whatâs Dragonfly?
― flopson, Wednesday, 13 February 2019 19:04 (five years ago) link
portable DAC
― say it with sausages (Sufjan Grafton), Wednesday, 13 February 2019 19:07 (five years ago) link
app is getting slightly better...though now i basically keep spotify for listing in the car/headphones on the go....then use spotify to discover stuff and then listen to it on my nice headphones at work or at home on tidal
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 2 April 2019 14:29 (five years ago) link
I hate Tidal so much. They donât differentiate between any 90s indie band vs any 2020s mumble-rapper who took the same name. Even a search for âtrashcan sinatrasâ vs. âtrash can sinatrasâ will get you wildly different results.
― john shopkins (naus), Saturday, 10 April 2021 07:05 (three years ago) link
treated myself to a new amp and speakers in the office. also got a free apple music subscription with my xbox.trying to figure out the best way to get the highest quality music through my system. options are xbox via optical, OSX to amp via bluetooth 5.0, OSX or iOS to amp via chromecast audio. apple music can't cast to the CCA via iOS or OSX. you can cast spotify but it's limited quality. was thinking maybe I should just drop spotify for tidal then I could at least cast their CD quality streams to the amp. why you can't cast apple music to CCA is beyond me...
― LaMDA barry-stanners (||||||||), Friday, 30 December 2022 22:06 (one year ago) link
They really need to sort out their cataloguing. Listening to an album by 70's folkie Charles Brown and the "more from this artist" tab has a bunch of albums by 50's R&B vocalist Charles Brown. Worse, earlier it presented me with a "songwriter mix" which thought the Peter Brown who wrote "Material Girl" was the same guy who wrote "Sunshine Of Your Love". Don't get me wrong, that would be awesome if true - but it is not.
― Daniel_Rf, Tuesday, 31 January 2023 13:11 (one year ago) link
Listening to an album by 70's folkie Charles Brown and the "more from this artist" tab has a bunch of albums by 50's R&B vocalist Charles Brown.Thought you were going to say it suggested Vince GuaraldiâŠ
― degenerative AI (morrisp), Tuesday, 31 January 2023 14:57 (one year ago) link
My wife uses Tidal⊠their curated playlists are really goodThereâs a series called âTracks & Traces,â for specific artists (lots of big names from various genres), full of songs that reflect both their âinspirationsâ and artists that they inspired.
― morrisp.fandom.com (morrisp), Sunday, 23 April 2023 21:26 (one year ago) link
Like just to pick a totally random exampleâŠhttps://i.imgur.io/F9BSTUI_d.webp?maxwidth=640&shape=thumb&fidelity=medium
― morrisp.fandom.com (morrisp), Sunday, 23 April 2023 21:29 (one year ago) link
Hard not to be satisfied by selections like these
― morrisp.fandom.com (morrisp), Sunday, 23 April 2023 21:33 (one year ago) link