Tidal gapless playback recently improved?

Posted by: ChrisByrd on 08 November 2015

A week or so back, I played Teodor Currentzis's excellent recent recording of the Rite of Spring from Tidal and there were noticeable, and annoying, gaps between the tracks. I've just played it again and the playback was flawless - great quality, no gaps. Has anything changed at the Tidal end? Given the cost of the (very short) album, Tidal is starting to look like good value again.

Posted on: 08 November 2015 by Goon525

I've also noticed improvement in this area.

Posted on: 09 November 2015 by nudgerwilliams

The way Tidal works, whether you get gapless or not is a bit of a lottery. Simon-in-Suffolk's posts on this explain way.

It may be Tidal have improved their setup recently - certainly this weekend my listening on Tidal had zero pauses / stops, whereas a couple of weeks ago it seemed to be happening every two or three tracks.

Let's hope they have improved it - when it works I'm really enjoying being able to explore stuff I would not otherwise hear (though my wife would disagree when it comes to Joe Cocker's Mad Dogs and Englishmen).