Tidal

“I love that they pay the artists way more. Unfortunately Tidal looks similar Spotify, but is somehow janky and less polished.”

“Tidal is basically completely satisfying as a Spotify replacement for me”

“I love Tidal. That said its UI is remarkably heavy for what it is.”

“The Tidal and Deezer apps on Windows were absolute dogshit and would constantly bug out”

“Tidal is the last streaming service I use”

“I went from spotify to tidal and am very happy.”

“Then switch to YouTube Music or Tidal, they're way better.”

“I was shocked at how much I noticed the sound quality of Tidal compared to Spotify”

“it's certainly a good sign when musicians/publishers are willing to send over the highest-bitrate lossless recordings they've got”

“I've paid for Tidal for a decade because I just like the peace of mind that it's closer to the original recording”

“good policy overall from them. Monetization is biggest incentive”

“if you leave them on long enough they will eventually start playing obvious AI slop”

“Tidal shoved into Yes' discography because the “artist” included “Yes” in the name”

“there's been a big issue with people getting their music intentionally or unintentionally labelled under other artists names”

“removing the incentives for it seems like the exact correct approach to stemming that tide”

“their entire business was built on high-fidelity, crediting artists, and paying them more”

“I appreciate a platform for art to at least attempt at maintaining the semblance of it being for humans.”

“The policy seems a lot more reasonable than the straight up dystopian scam that Spotify runs”

“Love that they don't pay any royalties for AI music right now”

“A very reasonable policy, prevents AI Slop from flooding the platform”

“They accept that it’s part of the industry landscape and also say it’s not monetizeable.”

“including audiophile darlings Qobuz and Tidal -- that beats it in that aspect”

“They don't offer APIs precisely so that you can't integrate several sources in one app.”

“Music apps especially went downhill, spotify and tidal etc need to offer apis so we can integrate several sources in one app”

“TIDAL is able to between three and four times the royalties per stream that Spotify does.”

“Tidal being incapable of properly handing multiple artists sharing a name and adding the track to the wrong discography”

“At least that one I could trust not to push slop into artist radio, for now”

“I moved over to Tidal recently. Haven't missed Spotify”

“Tidal is much better about that and they have better sound quality.”

“They pay up to 10x per stream in royalties, and also have a more equitable algorithm”

“Tidal had the music I was looking for (generally higher quality recordings) for the same monthly cost of Spotify.”

“They have a decent API and while they want you to use their playback SDKs, they're relatively less hostile”

“lossless streaming services like Tidal and Qobuz do exist”

“Tidal has much more 24 bit options when I did an A/B.”

“Tidal has smaller library but higher quality”

“Tidal is the widely-available service with the second-highest pay rate.”

“they paid a lot more, per stream, to artists”

“all of it seems like a step down in language from SQL”

“I really appreciate platforms that still show the titles and metadada after something is removed.”

“so much of it would be easy to change too, they just don't do it.”