Tidal vs. Spotify

Bcgator - sorry you are unable to enjoy tidal. Its the best thing to happen to me since 9th grade. Have you tried a download sped test to see where your bottleneck is? Try speedtest.net You need a nice signal (50 mips will do it). Its brutal but if you can get the internet bandwith required, its awesome. Kind of like the beginning of HDTV. You need alot of bandwith for it.

Cerrot, I'm pretty sure that my bandwidth isn't the cause of "invalid track" errors. For example, I'll click on an album, and instead of playing the song (and the song isn't greyed-out indicating that it's not available), it gives an "Invalid Track" message at the top of the screen. The software then begins to scroll through the album, song by song, first slowly then quickly, trying to find anything it can play. If I don't stop it, it'll scroll through every song, every album, by an artist, looking for anything to play. Clicking another artist, whose albums I've played previously, will start the scrolling over again. Closing and restarting doesn't help. This seems like software error, not bandwidth drop-out.

I tried Tidal for 3 weeks. It is NOT that much better than Spotify on my Venture speakers, MAC Book Pro, ModWright Elyse DAC, Magnus Audio MA-300 amp and WyWires USB cable.

This maybe a stupid question, but does Tidal have "stations" you can choose like XM. Best way to discover new music, imo. I have not tried Sirius XM over internet yet, but I assume the files are compressed.

Tidal has "Artist" radio, but not a genre category like Sirius/XM. It lets you play similar artists to the one you choose, (kinda like stations on Pandora), but not like 60's or 70's or Classic Rock or Deep Tracks, etc. that Sirius/XM has.

I have read a few posts that people have claimed that Tidal doesn't really sound any better than Spotify/Beats/Rhapsody. I must have either a really crappy system or a ultra hi-rez system because the difference on my system is remarkable. Tidal is so much better, it's not even close. But hey, if you can save the money with Spotify, then cool.

I think that the success, (or lack thereof) with Tidal depends on how you feed it to your system.