Apple Music Competitor Tidal Allegedly Months Behind on Royalty Payments

this will lower their valuation.

Valuation? If they’re behind on bills they’re worthless.

I wonder if they have this song in their catalogue:

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You can say the tides have turned for Tidal! :D

Apple Music competitor? In terms of what? Cause even Spotify isn't a competitor in terms of profitability. Tidal is dying a slow death.

Apple Music competitor? In terms of what? Cause even Spotify isn't a competitor in terms of profitability. Tidal is dying a slow death.

Tidal’s quality is noticeablely better since they have lossless quality available, so there’s that.

Tidal’s quality is noticeablely better since they have lossless quality available, so there’s that.

As far as the masses are concerned, I’d quibble with “noticeably” in favor of “except for some audiophiles the difference is negligible and people don’t care.” Didn’t save Betamax and won’t save Tidal.

I love lossless music, but Tidal really has to fix the UI. The desktop/web app is a complete joke.

Here are only a few of the many issues I have with Tidal.

-You have to scroll till the end of a playlist to load all the music. And it loads about 30-50 songs each scroll. Yeah it’s my normal routine whenever I start Tidal. Want to explore new songs and go to a different page and get back? Yup, it’s scroll time again. Oh wait, you forgot to sort by album? You’ve guessed it, gotta get that scroll wheel rollin.

-Simply deleting tracks comes with lag. I have the latest 27inch iMac. Maybe it’s running on java or the like, but regardless the end user experience is plagued with lags everywhere for simple tasks.

-Shuffling playback does weird things such as only shuffling thru a few songs or at times shuffling only songs below the first song I selected. Its just super buggy. Yes, I’ve seen it shuffle only the last ten songs when I first clicked on the 10th to last song in the list.

-Can’t sort or filter new music by genre, artists, etc at various places in the app. I.g. say you want to search new Jazz music under the Masters (lossless) tab. You just get a random list of albums of all genres. Good luck discovering new lossless music. You have to click on each album to see what genre it is, and even then you have to click the info link which may or may not have the information you’re looking for.

-Similarly searching music from the search box is pretty basic. Again you can’t filter customize the search results to your liking.

-Tidal doesn’t ignore or warn when adding duplicates to favorites (Tracks) or custom playlists. And it’s gets even worse considering the fact that it lags to just remove songs.


The desktop Tidal app is a complete joke. Since Apple decided to neglect the the so-called audiophile crowd (for lack of better word), I got no choice but to use Tidal to take advantage of my headphone stuff, but boy is it torture to use their software.

FYI, the mobile app is better, which also has to do with the fact that you really don’t do much on your phone other than playing back your playlists.

Btw I just really needed a place vent and let out years of pent up frustration and anger from using Tidal.

Noticeably better? Not really. You couldn't tell the difference between a regular AAC 256 kbps file from a lossless one, assuming the same master is used.

On my Audeze EL-8 and even my Sennheiser Momentum I can.

Jay-Z is too busy hanging with Marina Abromovic and being triggered by the president and ignoring subpoenas by SEC / no showing in court... to pay his royalty dues

He’s a real winner

Apple Music competitor? In terms of what? Cause even Spotify isn't a competitor in terms of profitability. Tidal is dying a slow death.

Must be fun living in a bubble...

Tidal has uncompressed FLAC streaming available, you can't beat the real deal.