Naim App and Tidal Family Subscription
Posted by: CSommer on 26 April 2018
Does anyone know, if the Naim App works with a Tidal Family Subscription? Which means to switch User in the Naim App? I'll ask 'cause next week I get my Nova and this is the only question left for setup
A family plan gives each Tidal user a separate account with its own user name and password. So if each user wants access to their own saved albums, playlists etc. you would need to log in/out of Tidal on the Naim app. If you’re not bothered about this, just stay logged in as one user on the Nova, and let each user log in individually on any other devices they want to use.
The standard Tidal subscription allows logging in from multiple devices so the family option (which I assume is more expensive) may not be needed unless you want separate favourites etc.
If each user had their own iOS (or Android) device and were logged into their Tidal account within their copy of the Naim app, would they just use their device to send their Tidal content to the Uniti?
So the Uniti would be oblivious to the Tidal account being used, identity is stored in the app on the users device?
... leaving in 5 minutes for a Uniti Atom demo, and this was a question I was curious about!
MortalWombatUK posted:So the Uniti would be oblivious to the Tidal account being used, identity is stored in the app on the users device?
I haven’t tried this, but as the Tidal stream is routed directly to the streamer, not via the app/iOS device, I suspect you would not be able to swap iOS devices without doing a new Tidal login. Maybe worth getting Naim support to check this out for you.
Hi,
The Naim app on the phone / tablet would be given the login details for a TIDAL account and then when you browse and play the Naim Streamer the Naim Streamer would be "logged in" as that account / user.
You can have the app installed on multiple phones / tables with each having the same login details and switch between them at will but as with any TIDAL device if you start a album playing on one playback device and then use the same account to start playback of an album on a 2nd playback device then when the 1st device reaches the end of the track it is playing then it will stop playback as the login from the 2nd device disconnects the 1st device.
Obviously if you have multiple TIDAL accounts then you can have multiple playback devices playing back from TIDAL independently as they all have their own accounts.
I hope that helps.
Phil
Thanks for your replies! Well, I think the most convenient way is to stick with one account with separate playlists for each person.