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I keep trying to like Tidal, but Spotify beats it for me every time. On a content front, Tidal has 76% of my Spotify liked tracks and 83% of tracks from liked
by spiffytech 5y ago
I keep trying to like Tidal, but Spotify beats it for me every time.
On a content front, Tidal has 76% of my Spotify liked tracks and 83% of tracks from liked playlists (stats from Soundiiz). That's a not insubstantial amount of music to lose access to.
That might be okay, except nobody comes close to Spotify's recommendations for me. I can count on the overwhelming majority of the "Daily Mix" or "Track Radio" content to be a good fit for me, and to have passable choice in musical moods. By comparison, Tidal gives me poor individual recommendations, and can't keep a consistent atmosphere during a playback session. I'm sure Tidal has great music that Spotify doesn't, but it's not showing that to me.
I like that Tidal has higher-quality playback, gives artists a bigger cut, and has better controls over banning tracks/artists, artist credits, etc. And Tidal's recommendations are pretty far ahead of most other services for me. But I just can't count on turning it on without constantly skipping songs.
- lamontcg 5y ago> stats from Soundiiz Maybe tunemymusic is better than Soundiiz? I do have pretty pedestrian music tastes though...
- spiffytech 5y ago> I do have pretty pedestrian music tastes though... That could very well be the difference. I don't know what normal numbers are, but Spotify says I listened to 2,518 artists last year, and I seldom listen to anyone that plays on the radio. Streaming music services seem heavily geared towards mainstream tastes. That's understandable, but doesn't work well for me personally.
- HKH2 5y agoSpotify is good at helping me find non-mainstream electronic music.