Link: Review of Tidal after a year: hot garbage. Tidal looks absolute rubbish.
@leonp I agree with this assessment. The problem is, Tidal is by far the best sounding streaming service available. I don’t subscribe to Tidal anymore because I no longer care to subscribe to two different services, but for a long time, I did simply because the sound quality of Tidal is so good. The software, on the other hand, is everything this author describes.
For the record, Amazon Music also sounds very, very good (especially its Atmos implementation) but its software is also dreadful.
@gdp I guess the promise of better sound does matter, but perhaps not enough. cf Neil Young and Pono. Does it sound markedly better than, say, Spotify? Anyway, without good software, it’s a moot point.
@leonp Yes, it sounds markedly better than Spotify, which is the bottom spot of the sound quality list. I would think the difference is noticeable even by untrained ears. But wrestling with bad software is almost certainly not something listeners will do for very long when other services are good enough.