Tidal Lossless Streaming

[Stevko]

No. I am too cheap to have both at same time

 

[NickT23]

No. I am too cheap to have both at same time

Yea... but you can always unsubscribe and just try to a/b. For me, its not whether am cheap, just cannot afford.

 

[Stevko]

Buying used cd and rip to PC and stream own music is chepest way to stream music.

 

[NickT23]

Have you personally tried Quboz ?

 

[Stevko]

Have you personally tried Quboz ?

Yes. Trying now

 

[NickT23]

Yes. Trying now

Well, can give subjective opinion between Quboz and Tidal sound quality with the same format.

 

[Stevko]

Can’t hear any difference. Tidal cost less.so I prefer Tidal(qobus offer a little bit higher quality on some album)

 

[NickT23]

Can’t hear any difference. Tidal cost less.so I prefer Tidal(qobus offer a little bit higher quality on some album)

Just as I thought! Running on app instead of software right ? By software I meant Roon, Jfemto or MusicBee... etc.

 

[Stevko]

I use musicbee for my own music(cd rip/buyed digital)
Musicbee is free and great

 

[NickT23]

I use musicbee for my own music(cd rip/buyed digital)
Musicbee is free and great

Yea but did you use music bee for both Tidal and Quboz when you try to a/b ? And daily usage do you use Musicbee for Tidal ?

 

[Brain Damage]

I subscribed to both for quite a while to experience the best of both worlds: owned an LG V30 and a couple of MQA rendering dongle DACs which suited Tidal vs Hi Res up to 24-192 flac files (as @Stevko pointed out).

For me, it swings in roundabouts - some MQA albums (fully decoded) sound better than Qobuz flac files; however vice versa applies in some cases depending on the recording. I therefore decided to stick with Qobuz @ £10.85/month vs Tidal's £19.99/month as I don't find Tidal to be twice as good as Qobuz for the money.

 

[Stevko]

Yea but did you use music bee for both Tidal and Quboz when you try to a/b ? And daily usage do you use Musicbee for Tidal ?

No I did’t
Not tried A/B
Don’t use any Tidal in MB

 

[gimmeheadroom]

Talking about offline in windows app.
In qobus , the offline content show info like flac,quality, etc.
No offline in Tidal win app.

Oh, I don't remember and I have a new desktop and I didn't install the Tidal app since I'm using a Bluesound box for Tidal now. So I can't check it.

I agree it would be nice to have the technical details on sample rate, bit depth, etc. We asked on Bluesound. There is a long thread, but they didn't add it.

So I use my Brooklyn for that, it is a great diagnostic tool. I can see what Tidal is sending and also what it expands to.

 

[Qualitas]

Does anyone happen to know a simple, streamlined way to “offline” (download) an entire tidal library to a new android device?

I just got a new Hiby R5 gen 2 player (Android v8) which will be coming with me on a trip soon, so I want to load it up with music as quickly as possible. I’ve logged into tidal, and see my whole library there. But the only way I can see to offline albums (that are already saved to my library) is to manually click “download” on each one. This works, but is very tedious to download everything one by one.

It would be nice if there were a way I could instruct tidal to offline everything in my library at once, and just let the download queue run overnight.

 

[peterinvan]

Does anyone happen to know a simple, streamlined way to “offline” (download) an entire tidal library to a new android device?

I just got a new Hiby R5 gen 2 player (Android v8) which will be coming with me on a trip soon, so I want to load it up with music as quickly as possible. I’ve logged into tidal, and see my whole library there. But the only way I can see to offline albums (that are already saved to my library) is to manually click “download” on each one. This works, but is very tedious to download everything one by one.

It would be nice if there were a way I could instruct tidal to offline everything in my library at once, and just let the download queue run overnight.

One way would be to create playlists of your favorite genres. Then download the playlist to your Andriod device.
Playlists are the preferred way to download to a portable device, as you don't have to "refresh" the downloaded playlist (like you have to do with albums).