Tidal - New streaming at 44.1/16 CD quality USA/UK
Posted by: Dan43 on 04 September 2014
News announcement it mentions Qobuz and its financial woes and trying to break the US.
http://www.digitalaudioreview....g-service-in-usa-uk/
This is great! Wimp is a fantastic service, not only because of the sound quality but the editorial bits as well. I find so much new music now.
Naim! If this is not on your list of services to integrate into the streamers, It needs to be!
Interesting - I think the pressure must be starting to build on Spotify for lossless streaming. The clearly is a demand there - and not just us on this forum!!
Reading the Spotfiy support forums this has been requested for a long time now... if Spotify don't listen to at least part of their customer base and innovate it will probably will mean their slow demise.
With digital track downloads now declining slightly for the first time in its history (excluding iTunes digital albums) - I wonder if we shall see lossless streaming from Apple? They have the ALAC codec ideal for this function - and of course most others will use FLAC.
Note CD album sales down in the US around 14.5% against an overall album decline of 8.4% but CD sales via Amazon up by around 2% and LPs now accounting for 2% of US album sales and growing. An interesting and changing market as some sections of the lossless music market are growing..
Simon
I agree, spotify still has some nice features but in the end wimp/tidal wins in that department too I think. Recommendations for albums that sound better than usual, interesting new artists, old favourites you forgot you liked and so on - I love that! Real people making playlists and editorials based NOT on what's hot right now but what is actually good music! So far it's only metallica I'm missing from the catalogue, the rest of my playlists were "imported" from spotify automatically.
Sounds like I work for them but I don't.. I just like their way of presenting music.
I agree, spotify still has some nice features but in the end wimp/tidal wins in that department too I think. Recommendations for albums that sound better than usual, interesting new artists, old favourites you forgot you liked and so on - I love that! Real people making playlists and editorials based NOT on what's hot right now but what is actually good music! So far it's only metallica I'm missing from the catalogue, the rest of my playlists were "imported" from spotify automatically.
Sounds like I work for them but I don't.. I just like their way of presenting music.
Same thing with Qobuz, €20 in Europe, £20 here. Does anyone have any idea how Tidal's identically priced offering compares with Qobuz? I'm particularly interested in how broad their classical range will be.
Recommendations for albums that sound better than usual, interesting new artists, old favourites you forgot you liked and so on - I love that! Real people making playlists and editorials based NOT on what's hot right now but what is actually good music!
This is one of the things I really like about Beats Music.