I have seen tracks out of order, but when I've gone to the same album on Spotify, I would found the tracks in the same wrong order. For this problem I believe that the record label is providing them in the wrong order. I agree completely about Tidal's terrible search function. Numerous times I've had to rely on something I knew about the performers to get Tidal to find an album.
Another pet peeve I have about Tidal is that when you expand the Now Playing window, it shows a spinning album cover, cropped into a circle. Often the metadata for classical albums is very sparse and I just want to read the text on the album cover, but Tidal is doing this stupid gimmick.
Read this article:
https://www.mattmontag.com/music/universals-audible-watermark. The music labels consider their customers to be the enemy and they encode a watermark into the recording so that they can identify and track copies. A watermark should be inaudible but it was poorly designed and distorts the sound, like listening to FM radio with bad reception. The watermark affects some types of sounds (such as piano) worse than others.
Here's an example of what the distortion sounds like. Open tidal.com in the browser and log in, then open these two links in separate tabs so you can easily switch between them for comparison. The first album has the characteristic sound of the watermark distortion, which is like a fluttering modulation. The distortion runs throughout the album, but I suggest listening to track 29 (the famous Chopin funeral march) because the slow tempo and sustained notes expose it clearly. The second link is to an MQA version of the same album, and it does not exhibit the watermark distortions.
https://listen.tidal.com/album/4792430 (non-MQA with watermark distortion)
https://listen.tidal.com/album/77599591 (MQA)
