The Qobuz default player was slightly better than Tidal's, although both can stream with the top of the players, Audirvana, and tie on that. However, most importantly, Tidal is giving me the new king of reasons to subscribe to a streaming service in the first place: 8 rotating smart custom playlists.
It's unbelievable how well my playlists give me a list of unheard tracks based on what I favorite, and also gives 8 unique rotating lists, based on what I play. Tidal wins that prize, and Qobuz is actually LAST place, out of all services I tried, because my playlist had nothing to do with me, and never changed anyways. Their home page recommendations list was small, and didn't change for 2 months, and then, only very slightly. Tidal always tells me when something new comes out. With Qobuz, all you can really do, is find stuff to look for somewhere else, and then manually search for them. I don't see the big deal about having a library-only service, even though that's what I initially only thought I would be getting for subscribing, anyways. Tidal beat my expectations of a streaming service, by giving me a colossal 8 custom smart playlists.
All streamer default player apps suck, Tidall's was the least bad VS a standalone player, until Qobuz somehow managed to almost equal a standalone player. But I only need a player's default app during gaming, otherwise Audirvana was the newest best sounding file-only player before supporting streaming, and compared to the default player apps, is almost perfection of streaming.
