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Tidal will include hi-res in the basic price starting in April

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Posted on March 6, 2024 at 09:08:32
zacster
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 I just got this email from Tidal:

"Starting April 10, 2024, you will now get access to our music library in full lossless, HiRes FLAC, and Dolby Atmos sound for the same price you pay today of $10.99 (plus applicable sales tax)/month.

"This is because we're making it easier for everyone to enjoy best-in-class sound quality by combining our HiFi and HiFi Plus tiers into a single subscription tier called TIDAL."

That's a good deal. And at least they gave up on MQA a while ago.

 

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RE: Tidal will include hi-res in the basic price starting in April, posted on March 7, 2024 at 06:20:18
AbeCollins
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Makes sense that Tidal is simplifying their offerings but they also dropped the Veteran's discount on their basic CD-quality service. I was paying a little over $6/mo. Since my Tidal subscription will now be the same price as what I pay for Qobuz, I will probably drop Tidal.



 

RE: Tidal will include hi-res in the basic price starting in April, posted on March 7, 2024 at 08:10:40
zacster
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 I have both because I prefer Qobuz at home but only Tidal will run in my car natively. The car doesn't support hi-res, or maybe it will with this change and that would be spectacular.

 

RE: Tidal will include hi-res in the basic price starting in April, posted on March 24, 2024 at 09:37:59
dbphd
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 I subscribe to both Qobuz and Tidal. I mostly listen to chamber music, cool jazz, and piano solos, so I've been wondering about dropping Tidal. OTOH, Tidal is an insignificant part of our budget.

 

RE: Tidal will include hi-res in the basic price starting in April, posted on March 24, 2024 at 20:13:50
zacster
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 No one item in our digital budget is all that much, but when you add them all together it comes out to a lot. I'm always looking at my subscriptions to make sure I'm only paying for what I actually use. In recent weeks I cancelled two cycling app subscriptions because I gravitated towards a third that I used about 90% of the time. There are the newspapers, the TV channels, the cellular, all kinds of apps, and they all should be watched to see if you are actually using it.

 

RE: Tidal will include hi-res in the basic price starting in April, posted on March 24, 2024 at 23:49:18
dbphd
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 Good point. In addition to Tidal, I should cut the Sunday NYT (keep the online service), cut YouTube Live, and might cut satellite car radio as well. They do add up.

 

RE: Tidal will include hi-res in the basic price starting in April, posted on March 25, 2024 at 08:03:51
zacster
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 Yea, the NYT is one of them. Most of the time the paper version goes into the recycling unread, but my wife insisted on keeping it mostly for the crossword. That just isn't worth what we pay. She'll keep the whole paper laying around, but if I just toss it into the bin she never notices that it is gone.

 

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