Amazon just killed Tidal

Amazon has their own forum, with a dedicated thread to the Amazon Music HD service. They apparently don't take criticism well, there has been a lot of discussion about poor sound quality of Amazon Music HD compared to Tidal and Qobuz.

The moderators pruned the negative posts last night, cutting the thread from 16 pages to 8. A company who censors constructive criticism probably won't improve the service by even implementing Wasapi exclusive mode.

I have both Tidal and Amazon music an been using them on an iPad, MacBook Pro and Apple TV for the last few weeks.

They both sound good although I give Amazon the edge on sound quality.

I do not understand the complaints on Amazon sound quality. Some complainers must have sound system and DAC issues IMO.

The Amazon interface is much better than Tidal, which does not alphabetically list album and song lists. Big lists on Tidal are a mess to find a particular album or song.

I cancelled Tidal and started a yearly subscription to Amazon for much cheaper.

$240 a year is way too much for Tidal.

Few years from you will have no choice in the matter .

I just dropped Tidal for Qobuz.... the sound quality is excellent.  Pretty good selection of music.   Tracks are rendered in 44k, 24/96k,  88.2k, and even 24/192k.... sounds great through my DAC.  

I like the user interface better on qobuz....  I think for $14.99 is a good deal.

I tried Quobuz and dropped it after a week. Yes, it sounds pretty good. But for my tastes, there were many holes in their catalog. Some I could live without, but others I am not willing to sacrifice.

And if you are using the Bluos app, you cannot index your music. All albums are in the order that you save them. No alphabetizing by artist or album. 

Now if they can resolve these two issues, I will come back.

Oz