It is great that it worls for some, but I find Tidal missing content. Ok, do not burn me at stake for saying that, but it is true.
I visited a nice equipment shop in Northern Virginia to check some speakers out. Very friendly salesman brought an iPad, or something like that, and asked what I wanted to hear. Well, I brought my CDs that I burned with some music I was familiar with just for that occassion. No luck, system had no CD player so he happily asked me what I wanted as "it was all on Tidal". Not exactly. We managed to find one of the songs, but version was from some live album recorded from, what it sounded like, last row in the garage with microphone hidden in the shoebox under the seat. Tidal was missing the original studio album, it was missing the Greatest Hits, too. Why it had a few more obscure ones is beyond me.
As I mentioned, the salesman was very friendly and understanding and he left me alone with that iPad so I could look and listen in peace and at my own pace. I tried some classical music, nothing esoteric. No luck. I kind of got an impression that Tidal does not have classical at all, but even I do not believe it. It surely does not have the greatest selection of classical, though.
An hour later, almost exactly the same happened in another very nice equipment shop in Maryland. I listened to whatever the salesman suggested as, by that time, I realized that Tidal and my preferences did not mix too well.
My take-home observations of the day were:
-guys selling nice equipment in DC area are really friendly, non-pushy, non-arrogant, and know their stuff
-Tidal has become the standard for demoing equipment
-Tidal has very limited selection
-Tidal must be convenient if you just want to have some music playing in the background or exploring new music you have never heard before, but for that I use Internet radio from around the world
To each his own, to me my CDs, records, Internet radio.
