Tidal vs. Spotify

I have both and there's no comparison in terms of sound quality. Tidal is a must if you are wanting true audiophile quality streaming.

You do need to have a good Internet connection and a pc that is optimized for sound quality. I've only had one time when a track stopped playing due to bandwidth issues. In fact, you can play tidal right through chrome and it's great.

Spotify has interface advantages, but I rarely use it now.

I find Deezer a good subsitute for spotify. Elite is out for Deezer which boast higher rez.

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.