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Got the email of subscription increase, just cancelled.
Been trialling Tidal and we're both pretty happy with it. Integrates almost as well as Spotify with Android Auto and the sound quality is far better.
Take a look at Deezer, too. It's what I went with because it offers high fidelity FLAC audio for paid subscriptions, and integrates with Google home voice commands, which Tidal didn't when I was looking.
I went with deezer for this reason as well. But deezer has gotten really bad and the interface is just God awful. I recently moved over to tidal and love it. It's way better than deezer at this point
I haven't had any issues with it personally (not invalidating your experience) What has gotten bad about it?
Had issues downloading for offline. Recommendations are meh. Sometimes I can't search. Sometimes the app won't load when on cell data.
I never had issues like those before and then all of the sudden, it's not even usable. I get having bad cell coverage somewhere, but I would have a strong signal and it will still do it. I had to uninstall and reinstall the app multiple times for it to work.
Tidal is now cheaper and it has everything I would listen to. Before they were missing some bands and deezer had them. Doesn't seem to be the case anymore.
Sounds like they missed some QA testing for your device or something. That sucks.
I do notice that the recommended music at the end of a playlist tends to skew more to whatever the last song was, rather than overall vibe of the playlist. Assuming it didn't end on a really annoying song, though, I don't personally mind changing directions a little. That said, can completely appreciate their algorithms not working for everyone.
I do think they've been working on improving the algorithms though, as they are definitely not as wonky as they were when I first joined a couple years ago. Nice to know at least some of my payment is going towards improving the platform, unlike Spotify, where it's going towards buying podcasts I don't want to listen to.
I pay for the annual subscription, so Deezer is still cheaper for me by about $2/month, but I'm glad you've found what you're looking for in Tidal. And thanks for humoring my curiousity.