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Tidal, Deezer

Could someone with experience with music subscription services please advise. My confusion is that these music services advertise that you can download music for offline listening. Wouldn't that be putting music files in your storage...creating a music library? I have had itunes and rhapsody, both of which you can download music files into your computer. Surely there must be others you can do the same? Thanks for any advice
easola01
leemaze
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@easola01 the google mobile app allows downloads but not the computer interface. Not sure why. 

@uberwaltz just this morning, and this is my main problem with Tidal, it just stops playing in the middle of an album! When running in the background on my phone this happens all the time. Have to go to the app and select the next track and then go back to the track it was trying to play. Very frustrating and never happens with Google. 
gdnrbob
4,495 posts
 
I tried Deezer, but songs would play up to a point and then return to the beginning. I contacted customer support and found it to be lacking.
1 email per day, back and forth, telling me to uninstall/reinstall etc..
It never worked properly so I dropped it before the 30 day trial expired.

Spotify and Tidal have much better customer service-When I needed help.
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uberwaltz
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@leemaze. 

Most odd and disturbing. I can honestly say I have had zero issues on mobile phone Tidal playback unless in very spotty reception area, I stream it constantly in my car via Bluetooth to my car radio.
Not sure if that may be more phone specific issue? 
audioengr
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Can anyone tell me what the fascination is with "downloading files"?
I guess owning music? Is better than streaming music? I find that by exploring hundreds of artists on the fly and listening is very enjoyable.
I don't see any benefit to building my own library of music, when I have a much bigger, growing library of music at my fingertips ready to be streamed???

FLAC, that's why.  If I could stream native WAV files, then I would be willing to pay for such a service and use it every day.  The other reason is the player software that allows for streaming does not deliver the sound quality as what I'm using, Kinsky.  For me it is all about achieving the maximum sound quality possible.  This is when the music really moves you.

I know, those with lesser systems will attack now claiming that FLAC is the same as WAV.  It is, but only statically.  On-the-fly playback software somehow corrupts this, all of them.  I have yet to find one that does not.  I can plainly hear the difference.

Steve N.
Empirical Audio

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