Tidal vs. Spotify

Tidal all the way! No contest for sound quality, at least as rendered through Squeezebox touch. And the catalog is good enough for a good time.

Geifman, Chrome works like a charm on Mac; I like it better than Safari m'self. I'm a little stunned that you'd pass up full-res access to damn near every recording in the universe over the choice of a browser.

To each his own. ;-)

Gator: totally. I'll use Pandora when I want background music that I don't have to select.

Just wanted to point out how spoiled and complain-y we are (me included) when we just can't be bothered to pick out an album to play, after we've been provided access to nearly all the music that's ever been digitized.

Still in love with Tidal here. And while the suggestions, artist radio, and interface of Spotify are super-convenient, imagine going back five years in time with the following offer:

Them: We'll give you CD-quality access to 85% of the recorded albums in the history of music, for $20 a month.

Me: Yeah, well, it sucks if it won't pick out the music I want to listen to for me.

I'd look like a real a**hole, wouldn't I?

But, Cerrot, it's so _inconvenient_ to have to _think_ of the name of the artist or album I want to hear. ;-)

This month's Stereophile has 56 Records to Die For, some of which are on the obscure side.

Forty of them are on TIDAL.  I'm gonna roll up my sleeves and get to listenin'.

The key to the search function is to know that you have to spell words right, and that the field in which you input your query (artist or album, for example) denotes the _output_ of your search.  So if I want to find the album Armed Forces by Elvis Costello and the Attractions, I'll enter just two distinctive words -- Elvis Armed -- in the Album search box and it will pop right up.  Less intuitive, yes, but if you know how to work it, it works....