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Anyone love TIDAL lossless streaming like I do?

I love Tidal. The sound quality from its Hifi mode (lossless) is truly amazing and awesome. I have lot's of SACDs and lossless on even old recordings in 16/44 rivals it. If you felt sorry that there was not enough Hires content, try Tidal.
My little Chord Hugo dac produces sound that is about on par with my EMM XDS1 cdp. The Tidal streaming even sounds better than the Hires downloads I tried from Acoustic Sounds and Musicdirect. I'm not kidding. I hope people support this because I don't want it to go out of business. Please give it a try. I'm just a user and longtime audiophile with no other interest than keeping this remarkable service alive so I and others can use it.
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grm
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Hi,

I'm streaming TIDAL on my PC using the Chrome interface to listen in HI-FI. My PC is then connected to my DAC using a high quality TOSLINK cable and a good sound-card on the PC.

The problem I am having is that whenever TIDAL posts an update, and I install it, I loose "HI-FI". I can still stream high quality or low quality, but not Hi-Fi. To get around this I have to uninstall Chrome and then reinstall it and then I get my Hi-Fi back. I have not yet found a way to "ignore" the update and for all but one update I have had to reinstall Chrome.

Anybody else having this problem? Is there maybe something in Chrome that is not set up correctly? Its not hard to uninstall and reinstall Chrome, but I don't understand why this is happening??

Thank you for your help!
grm
149 posts
 
Hi,

One more question already asked on this post but no reply yet.

The volume control on the Chrome GUI in TIDAL, if you lower it, are you loosing "bits" or is it more like an analogue control and not loosing resolution? I would like to drop the volume on TIDAL to match my other components, but am afraid it would not be loss-less.

Thank you!
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mofimadness
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The volume control on the Chrome GUI in TIDAL, if you lower it, are you loosing "bits" or is it more like an analogue control and not loosing resolution?
It’s just a volume control. No other function. You're not losing anything but gain by lowering it.
grm
149 posts
 
Hi,

Thank you mofimadness! Now I can match TIDAL volume with the rest of my system.

Anyone, my post about the Chrome problem when I update TIDAL? Anyone else having to reload Chrome after a TIDAL update?

Thank you!
grm
149 posts
 
How to remote control "TIDAL"?

As I understand it, TIDAL will only play back Hi-Fi using Google Chrome. Also, it is my understanding that TIDAL will only play on one device at a time if you have a single user account.

So to the point, is it possible to use an iPad or iPod to remote control my PC running Chrome? What options, if any, are available to control TIDAL from my listening position? My PC is directly connected to a gateway via Ethernet. The only thing I can think of is maybe screen mirroring?? I can not afford at this time to add any additional hardware to my audio system, such as a network streaming player.

Thank you for your help!
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