Has Tidal died?

Now that would be ironic.

Wouldn't it, though.

Still, it was nice while it lasted.

Yep, dead here too. Still continuous silence is far better than the constant 20 secs of music, 20 secs of dropouts etc and skipped tracks experienced here all afternoon! It's getting to the stage that it's not even worth free never mind £20 per month. 

Oh, it's back.

My wife has suggested it's Abigail.

All working fine here in the Midlands, haven't had any drop outs or issues via my hard wired NDX since the beginning.

Maybe I'm lucky?

I am on fibre broadband and do get good but not brilliant download speeds (currently 20mbps).

Strange how it seems to be so variable.

All working OK here.

I was getting 37mbps while it was down. Very strange.

Same problem with me !

It's probably the load from Qobuz users jumping ship, all 50 of them at once, including me at the moment.  Sorry about that.  

Same here, I don't get dropouts on Tidal, but I've only got a crappy rural 4MB connection, and I use WiFi. Having said that, I think Naim have established that the dropouts, for those that have experienced them, have been at the Tidal server end.

Seems like I spoke too soon. Tidal is becoming very badly behaved: most tracks I try to play, usually won't. The bottom bar reads 'TIDAL - Can't play. Track skipped' It seems a bit erratic, some tracks will never play, and others sometimes will and sometimes won't. Occasionally the app freezes and I have to close it and reopen. No problem with UPnP or other inputs.

Same here ... I have been using Tidal on the free trial for several weeks now and never once have I experienced any kind of drop outs although I know many here have. This evening it flatly refused to play anything I tried. I certainly wouldn't want to pay £20 a month for a service if this becomes a frequent problem. Let's hope Tidal can sort it and make the service more robust.

It had a wobble on my Meridian set up yesterday too, though it didn't last long. There were some teething troubles early in the Meridian implementation, though I'm not sure which side was actually responsible. Tidal also implemented some changes that caught Roon out in the earlier stages too.

Similar here on the Gold Coast in Australia. Although many drop outs wonder past my front door, I'm not keen on those I've been experiencing on Tidal these last few days :-)

Hope it gets fixed soon - have fallen back to Spotify the meantime which was lucky as I was going to drop Spotify. May have to re-think Tidal Vs Spotify (Spotify also has a much richer music choice than Tidal, at least for the music I listen to)

I thought streaming was the future, but after this and Qobuz perhaps it's still the future. It's certainly not the present.

I think I'll stick to buying CDs on ebay and ripping them for the time being

JSH - I think streaming economically is the challenge. The tech is not new - but making it work as cheaply as possible for consumers is the challenge now - and I suspect this is where Tidal are trying to find their way.

I agree streaming hasn't replaced CD for me - eventhough I am proud of streaming as I spent much of my career in the mid to late 90s developing and trialling streaming technologies which to some extent are used now.. but back then the equivalent subscription would probably would have been £2000+ per month  

Simon

It is a bit wobbly, isn't it?

Streaming is certainly the present and the future - virtually all UK teenagers seem to use it - but I also expect it to improve as the technology and business models mature. I'll switch fully at some point I'm sure, but it has to get more stable, with a broader selection, before I do - could be a year, could be ten. Why cling on to my little selection of music on a NAS when I can have access to vast amounts of music in the cloud? 

JSH - yes, but unlike large-scale transport projects, all the parts in streaming tech are getting cheaper. Storage prices have plummeted and continue to do so, network speeds have increased massively per $ and the code required to validate and serve user requests is becoming standardised. Of course, the drivers of all of these things are the wider computing and media industries, not high-res music streaming, but it can still be the beneficiary. Lower costs means better margins and lower prices to the consumer, and that means more stable providers and much bigger audiences. It's very early days in this industry and there's a long way to go, but the direction of travel is very clear.

Are those, by any chance, the same kids who find the concept of paying money for online access to any music (or movies) incomprehensible?