Which one do you prefer?
I am seeing plenty of mixed opinions about both Spotify and Tidal. Some are saying Spotify is the best, others say it’s bloated, others think it’s annoying it’s also an app for podcasts. Some people really like Tidal, but I have mostly seen negative opinions about it - worse song recommendations, no difference in audio, too expensive.
As someone who doesn’t care very much for song recommendations I can’t decide which one is ideal for me personally. Tidal seems to pay artists better, but the criticism it receives makes me unsure. What do y’all think?
I tried Tidal 2 years ago and it was a solid experience, even had better coverage of artists available than spotify when i looked. Tools help with setting over your playlists and such.
The reason I haven’t gone over to Tidal, is that their shuffle is broken still to this day. If you have a playlist of let’s say 1000 songs, the app will only load the first 500 entries or so until you start scrolling down. Shuffle happens on your end, not on theirs, and since it doesn’t load the songs until you scroll down, shuffling will only take those first 500 into account. It’s absolutely ridiculous that this isn’t being fixed, it support knew about it 1 years ago and still nothing’s changed. That’s unacceptable for such basic behaviour imo.
I tried Tidal. The interface is decent enough. Audio quality is obviously better if you take advantage of hifi.
The reason I didn’t stick with it is that I do want the recommendations, and tidal was terrible there. So if you don’t care about that, go for it.
Tidal for its seamless Plex integration.
I honestly think Spotify is better because mote people use it. Its been a while for me but there’s just way more music and the app is nicer. There have veen a dew times where Ive been really tempted to go back but I end up just forgetting lol. I pay for Tidal bc ethics and YouTube Premium and I get pretty much all my music needs met.
