I hear you, but as others have said, Windows 7 has been dead a very long time. I hate it, but I have three computers and one laptop all running Windows 10 and NONE of them can officially be upgraded to Windows 11, so come October, they’ll be headed for the landfill. Sux needlessly creating all this massive amount of e-waste, but Microsoft doesn’t care one bit.
Now, I’ll probably pop the $30 to keep getting Windows 10 updates on the better PC I have for one additional year, but after that I’ll have to buy a new PC.
This is life here in the "software is forever in Beta mode" 21st century. I mean, I hope by the time I have to upgrade to a Windows 11 PC, at least most of the bugs will be out of it. Fingers crossed. And maybe they’ll stop rolling out updates that break things. (We can dream can’t we?)
I also want to voice the opinion that I have dealt with Tidal support on about four occasions and never had any issues with them. They would always get back with me within a few days via email.
I had issues when the yearly subscription I got through Best Buy was killed and replaced by a monthly subscription model (that pissed me off). I had already paid for a year, so they should have honored that agreement and then made the change. But they fixed it and gave me a few months "free" to make up for it. Then I’ve had a few albums I found that had issues (missing songs that should have been there, tracks in the wrong order, or some distortion in the sound) and they contacted the label and got those fixed after a few days. Overall, I’ve been happy with the support they have offered - so far.
Anyone else ever deal with Tidal "support"?
Well I think I'm about to cancel my Tidal subscription based on their lackluster "support". First of all, there is no phone support option, as they stated in their email. But they guarantied they'd take care of me. I realize this is the way things are going these days, but if I'd been able to TALK to these guys, we'd have had it figured out in 30 minutes, instead of 30 days!
Long story short, after a month of going back and forth with them, sending screenshots, speed tests, uninstalling the app, re-installing the app, deleting logs and data, they come back today to tell me they no longer support their app in a Windows 7 operating system. Ok,, I get it. But I described my setup in my INITIAL email to them! I think that's just their way of copping out.
When I ask for answers about how they determined this to be the problem, I just get a standard, "We don't support or troubleshoot Win 7 anymore." I never got any technical answers on my issue.
It's just frustrating to get zero answers to my questions...by email.
FWIW, my issue is after a few songs, it will drop out every two seconds, play music for two seconds, etc. etc. I initially thought it was buffering, but realized it was playing ok, just dropping out.
This only happens on the MAX resolution setting. I discovered this when they told me to try LOW res streaming. I told them I never considered streaming in low res, that's why I got Tidal in the first place, for the HIGH res. What's the point of listening to anything lossless? Viola, streamed fine in LOW res.
So my temporary fix, until I switch services, is to install an older version from my Downloads folder, and just not update it. That seems to work for the time being. I will miss the "lyrics" option of Tidal. It's fun to break out the PA system and sing along sometimes. If anyone knows of a hi-rez service with scrolling lyrics, let me know.
Thanks for letting me rant. Just curious if anyone else had any dealings with them,
Bob