Im over Tidal


I'm cancelling my Tidal subscription due to laggy, glitchy performance along with a music selection that is lacking.  I just can't take the long load times.  If it only take 3-5 seconds but you go through 3 or 4 tracks before you settle on one this adds up.  This along with dropouts (especially Friday and Saturday nights when I am trying to listen to Tidal) and I'm over it.   You are at the mercy of Tidal and your internet connection for music if this is your only source.

I'm moving on to vinyl.  Way better to have hard copies of your music in my opinion, and if you're going to go cd's why not vinyl?  I'm over being a computer dork in order to be an audio dork. 


Two thumbs down for Tidal; I waited it out to see if they would improve but they haven't.

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Showing 1 response by ejr1953

I have my laptop/music server connected to my Comcast router with a wired ethernet connection, as it's on the very far end of the house and the signal is not very strong or consistent, no one's fault, just a long distance from the router.

Having said that, I have had no problems with Tidal, none!  When I first subscribed, on a very rare occasion I would get a message that they were having some sort of problem and recommended that I switch out of "hi fi" mode, which I never did.

Even streaming hi-rez digital music files is WAY less data than streaming video.  44.1/16 files should not take up much bandwidth.

I suspect your problems are with your network and/or internet connection.

As for the content, when I can't find an album, I let them know.  Sometimes it's the lawyers who decide what the streaming services can and can't provide, not the service, same issue with Spotify.