TIDAL music is a streaming service that offers high fidelity sound, hi-def video quality, and expertly curated playlists and original content. I have been using TIDAL for a few months now and I am very impressed by the quality and variety of music that it provides. TIDAL has over 100 million songs from different genres, artists, and eras. I can easily find my favorite songs or discover new ones with the help of TIDAL’s recommendations and editorial picks. TIDAL also has exclusive content from some of the biggest names in music, such as JAY-Z, Beyoncé, Taylor Swift, and more. I can watch live concerts, documentaries, and original shows on TIDAL, which makes me feel closer to the artists and their stories. TIDAL also supports the artists and their rights, by paying them fairly and giving them creative control over their work. TIDAL has different plans and pricing options to suit different needs and budgets. I chose the HiFi plan, which gives me access to lossless audio and immersive sound experiences, such as Dolby Atmos and Sony 360 Reality Audio. I think TIDAL is worth every penny, because it delivers the best sound quality and the most diverse and engaging music content. TIDAL is more than just a music streaming service, it is a platform that celebrates music and culture. If you love music as much as I do, you should give TIDAL a try.

Yes .. Your platform is great and all BUT .. besides your move to simplify the subscription model in April, there are two glaring issues for me. They may seem small but I guess they’re not since I have left you for an inferior app. BRING CROSSFADE BACK! Stop playing, Tidal. There’s no reason for you to have omitted this feature with the recent updates. I don’t care what your research tells you. Enable the feature for the few that want it. The others that don’t use it probably don’t even know how to find it. Dead air in a playlist is a cardinal sin. As you may have guessed, I am a hobbyist DJ. I have since moved to Deezer solely for their crossfade and DJ software integration. I understand that there will be a tier for DJs at a price of $9 more than the original plan. Great. I’m willing to pay this but you should really consider bringing stems back. For whatever reason you cancelled this feature, we all have found workarounds. You not protecting the integrity of the artists anymore than other platforms that allow it. Bedroom DJs will mash up songs whether it’s cumbersome or integrated into an app. I wanna love your app like I have in the past. Do the right thing and capture the market with these two nominal additions. I will come back and give you the fifth star you so rightfully deserve (but only with those features) .. Signed, a frustrated end user who shares the gripes of many but has time to tell you about it. Your move, Tidal.

almost at the end of my free trial. PLEASE add an apple watch app. I hate having to carry my iphone with me when I workout just to listen to music, due to your lack of an app for the apple watch. Also, when connected to car bluetooth, the app glitches. when I leave the car, the music will pause. but when I get back in the car, it will not automatically start playing again. it makes me manually force close the app on my iphone and go back into the tidal app to resume playing (this also restarts the song i was playing, and sometimes the whole playlist. very annoying). i didn’t have this issue with apple music. I get “error loading this content” when trying to load my playlists through apple carplay, which, again, forces me to manually pull out my phone and do it from there. hopefully tidal reads this review and fixes these issues, as this would truly perfect the app and I would leave 5 stars. the sound quality is amazing, music definitely sounds the way the artist intended. the layout takes a little getting use to if you’re use to apple music, but I actually now prefer the layout of tidal. i love the tidal mixes and the different stations that they have available. it could be a perfect app if they fix these issues. not sure if i’ll be continuing to use it after my free trial ends, the lack of an apple watch app and the glitches that I put up with on daily basis (the ones I listed earlier) are a big turn off for me.

The app can be glitchy but for the most part it’s gotten better. The suggestions for music are terrible, even if your genre is rock, they want to push a bunch of new artists, especially rap artists onto your feed... we all know the best era of rap has come and gone and it only gets worse the newer it is. Even your “home page” will try to click bait you into making terrible music choices. Tidal also seems like they have undertaken the responsibility of social engineering and pushes the half truths and fallacies of the social movements (blm and antifa). Music has been used as propaganda for many years and tidal takes their platform as an advantage to brainwash WOKE (acronym for “without knowledge or education”) youth to destabilize the democracy and push for socialist priorities by feeding a victim mindset. If only more people had seen the rest of the world they would know our lives have the least struggle, which, in turn is a struggle itself as it creates a dearth of purpose. In truth, I downloaded tidal to improve the sound of my music and recapture the immersion I found as a youth while spinning punk rock vinyl records on my parents stereo. I could do without the musical suggestions, especially when they don’t align with my favorite genres, and I could also do with the social engineering propaganda. I’m old enough to have seen the world, and I know when I’m being sold a fool’s errand.

I think this is a great app, but it can definitely be better. A couple of things can improve this app right off the bat. 1. The music volume within the app is low compared to other streaming services like Apple Music . For example, the best comparison I can give is watching a tv show (Tidal) with sound so low you have to increase the volume until a commercial (Apple Music) comes on blasting through your speakers and now you’re scrambling to turn the volume down. 2. The app could benefit from a “explicit” button or toggle switch. Oftentimes, I’ll want to listen to an artist “Top Tracks” catalogue on shuffle. The problem I have is it will play duplicate songs because it’s playing both the clean and explicit version of the song. I’m a hip-hop head and I want the original song not the clean version, so having that option to turn on or off explicit content would make this app amazing. Other than that, I love Tidal. I love the algorithms that learn what I like and build playlists for me. I love the daily mix and multiple mixes to ensure you’re never short on a playlist. I love the daily discovery even if the music isn’t for me, it exposes me to new things that I might like. Like I said, those two improvements and this app will be amazing!

There are some pretty serious bugs and quality of life issues with the app that i really wish could be figured out. Firstly, if i exit the app on my phone briefly and pause the music. Even for a few seconds. As soon as i go back to the app it will completely restart the app and my song. I’ll have to reselect the song/playlist and it won’t leave off where i ended either. It acts like I completely refreshed the app or i restarted my phone. It just hard refreshes after leaving the app for even a second. And i’ve noticed that if i go to shuffle the same playlist i had on after that happens it will shuffle the songs in the same exact order as before (which is weird i thought it would always be random) That and sometimes when selecting a song it will say the song below or above it is selected instead and sometimes won’t show the time bar. It will just stay at 0:00 or the very end of the song for the whole duration of it. Also i am unable to load playlists i have downloaded offline if i have really weak cell service. I have to go into my phone and disable my cell service briefly to let the playlist show up every time i want to listen to music when i have a weak signal and it’s because i think tidal sees that my phone has some sort of signal but it’s not enough to load anything and it just gets super frustrating this happens alot especially when driving i have to pull over to make it work every time. No other streaming platform has this issue. A bunch of little bugs that add up, it gets frustrating after awhile. I love having lossless audio quality but this really makes it not worth it.

I never leave reviews, but I don’t know what happened, maybe glitches just haven’t been corrected. ** 2024 review **Look. Stop updating the appearance of this application, until you update the INTERFACE! The force closing has become an issue,and every update all I see is changes to the appearance. I’m paying too much to not be able to listen consistently without a force close, or app freezing on loading the next song. It seems like every update it gets worse. I’m giving yall to the end of the year. *old review *BUT every since the last few “updates” my tidal has not been working properly. First, I haven’t been able to access my favorited tracks, when I go to that section it just loads until it freezes and I have to force quit. Now,after this most recent update, I’m not able to access my created playlist’s. So unless I select a specific track, and allow it to just play songs similar to this I’m not able to just listen to music in a constant flow. What are y’all changing? Please correct these issues. Otherwise what’s the point in having a streaming app if there’s little editing to fit your listening needs for that particular moment. Update again. Favorite tracks are consistently appearing and disappearing. I have to delete the entire app and redownload it just to get that back. It used to be a sometime thing and now it’s weekly.

All good but for one thing... the interface is more wonky and illogical than it should be. I like the ability in Apple Music to just play all of my songs on shuffle when I don’t want to spend time thinking about what to queue up. Why can’t I do this on TIDAL? Seems like a feature that could be added without effort. I also am a little baffled about how from my phone, laptop and Apple TV app the placement of items is different... I’m actually not that in to videos but on Apple TV TIDAL seems to view audio only offerings as the least important item... they do know that many people run their high end stereo systems using the app... currently one has to scroll all the way down through the same classic videos and movies to find new music, and after I play a new release it kicks me back to the top when all I wanted back up one step and play the next new track or a different new album. Huh? They have focus groups and all that they take feedback from right? But if I swallow my irritation with these kind of inexplicable weirdnesses TIDAL is the best of the streaming crowd. Please developers note the flexibility and ease we all need and up your game the rest of the way... if this is your best please know it’s not keeping up with the other guys.

As a service, Tidal is on par with Apple Music (I don’t use any of the other services). A minor upside to is the Master quality content. I rate this as minor because most people, myself included, can’t really tell the difference between the Master content and Apple Music content with the exception that the “Master” label is highlighted when it is played. The biggest flaw with the service is in its organization of the music. It is such a gapping flaw that I just can’t enjoy the service like I should be able to. Take the following scenario. I like a few tracks on an album so I add the tracks to my collection. Now do that for several tracks on various albums to build your collection. Over time you will naturally do this and grow your library. Now go try to play just the tracks you like from just one of the albums. It is impossible!?! When you go to my collection and go to tracks, it show you every last track you ever added to your collection. Sort them you say? Sure I can do that. I sort them by album, and then find the album I am looking for. When you start the play of one of the tracks from the album it starts playing and now your entire collection of tracks is started as a play list, when all I want to do i just play the tracks from the album that are in my collection. The workaround is to create a playlist with just the tracks from the album. That’s ludicrous! This is just an example. I can give you several more similar example. Music organization is simply terrible. I don’t know how anyone effectively use this with a large library.

I signed up for Tidal a couple months ago and I’m still getting used to the app and it’s features. It hasn’t been as easy as I had hoped to find things. For example, I searched for Pink Floyd, and the only choices I could see at first were Pink Floyd cover bands. It took a lot of digging around before I was able to find them.It took a long time for me to figure out how to use my phone/tablet to control the Tidal app on my NVIDIA shield. Even Google search isn’t as good as it used to be apparently. Anyway, I finally figured that part out so I can turn my TV off and just listen to the music on my home theater w/o being distracted. However, the Tidal app on my phone/tablet frequently stops responding, won’t play a different song when selected, or just shuts down all together. Of course, whatever I had playing on my home theater keeps playing, but I then have to turn the TV on so I can use the remote to stop the music on my Shield TV & go back to the home screen and start all over again using the app on my phone/tablet.The above are the 2 biggest annoyances I have with this app. Otherwise, it’s ok. This is the first app of it’s kind I’m actually paying for & I’m doing it to try and listen to new music. However, it’s really difficult when the app keeps failing. To clarify, the app never falters when listening to music on my phone or tablet; only while using Chromecast. However, I almost never listen to music on my phone or tablet. I’m talking 85% of my time listening on my home theater and 15% on my tablet.