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I love Tidal. I'm a mid-fi guy and that's all I'll ever be so the quality is right up there with everything but Music Matters records and such. I don't care about the app because if I'm streaming, I'm going straight to Audirvana Plus or Player Pro on my phone. I also don't care about playlists because I listen to ALBUMS 99% of the time.
If I'm not doing that, I'm shuffling my favorited tracks. Now the thing I kept hearing about was how Tidal had much more limited selection than other services, but I rarely run into something they don't have - even with the indie stuff I support through Bandcamp, Feedbands, etc. My highly personal opinion: Pick a different service.
I was a Tidal subscriber long before they were named 'Tidal' and sold to Jay-Z:. The music recommendations have always sucked somewhat, in that they're not personalized.
While Tidal was still called 'WIMP', the mobile UI was a lot better. They had a circular scrubber for tracks that was quick, intuitive and easy to use. The current scrubber is near useless, and for some reason harder to use than the one in Apple's default music app. Beyond that: Sprint holds what is effectively a controlling minority (33%) of TIDAL. I'm personally skeptical towards internet service providers owning any media property. Without extremely strong provisions enforcing fair and equal market access, It inherently leads to the ISP discriminating against competing services. In other words: It's a net neutrality issue where the lack of such can lead to situations where better competitors are not even allowed to surface.
I would feel the same if Verizon bought 33% of Spotify). Then there is the big elephant in the room: MQA. Since I am a known entity in this subreddit: MQA is something I consider to be truly nefarious. I know that Stereophile and their MQA shills are going to dismiss my opinions as 'evil', or 'nasty', but MQA is the very definition of Dolby-fication of audio playback: It's a scheme not intended to improve audio quality or to give customers a better experience.
It exists only to extract license revenue from every single chain in the production and playback process, and it's a very 'convenient' scheme to introduce both hard DRM and quality reduction for anyone not willing to pay into this scheme, whether they produce hardware, software or content. I can forgive the bad UI - I mostly listen to full albums end-to-end without interacting. I can forgive the horrible recommendations - I take my recommendations from people and from discussions, not from a machine that thinks I'll like Slayer because I like Metallica and Led Zeppelin. I could have forgiven the ISP ownership if the ISP had fought for net neutrality, rather than against it.
But even if the rest of the stars had aligned, I could not ever forgive the harebrained decision/wish/wet dream to fuck over every single consumer by turning audio and music from 'free and open formats without restriction on both the software and hardware side' to 'locking both consumers, producers and hardware-manufacturers into a patent-driven tyranny that prevents anyone from entering the audio market without paying ransom to MQA Ltd.' So, I'm just going to repeat my flair: MQA must die Sign up for Spotify, Qobuz, Apple Music, Amazon Prime, Google Music or some other service that does not support MQA.
Bonus if you can find a service that has explicitly stated that they will never support MQA. OK, I also don't like MQA, but this feels like the wrong reason to not use Tidal. Very few albums on Tidal are MQA encoded and even then I believe it's only available on their desktop version. I only end up playing MQA encoded 'Masters' at work through a mid-fi set-up (macbook-mydac-Marantz pm5005-KEF Q100s) and I can't hear a difference. All of your above points are totally valid - I just can't get that worked up over a such a small (and useless) piece of their service. I can hear a difference between Tidal's lossless and Spotify premium, however. That's what I'm happy to pay for and support.
I can't wait for Spotify to drop its lossless service so I can drop Tidal, but until then Tidal has been the best way for me to enjoy lossless streaming at work and at home. The very nature of MQA's business model can be further investigated by a search for patents held by Bob Stuart (Founder of Meridian and MQA) - while not currently implemented, they point towards (hardware) conversion quality on a subscription-based model. If you feel like going in on the deep end with regards to the technical bits, has written plenty about the technical side of it (but also read the Benchmark Media primer on it).
My distaste for MQA is anything but uninformed - MQA is ultimately a threat against both innovation, customer freedom and a fair marketplace. I am a Google Play Music subscriber and tried Tidal for a few months. I've really grown to love the playlists made by Google Play and the Radio stations that switching to Tidal felt like a huge step back user-experience wise. I have a fairly nice setup and didn't notice much difference between 320kbps and HiFi over Airplay. Go ahead, call the audiophile cops on me, I don't care.
Any song where I have to pay SERIOUS attention to point out subtle differences in encoding is not how I enjoy music. I enjoy what I enjoy, and Google Play Music gets me there much more easily.