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Yeah I switched to Tidal when I learned about Spotify’s data sharing and privacy concerns a little over a year ago, but I was also so frustrated with Spotify’s
by californical 4y ago
Yeah I switched to Tidal when I learned about Spotify’s data sharing and privacy concerns a little over a year ago, but I was also so frustrated with Spotify’s UI always changing in frustrating ways and making it worse. They’d break features that I used often (playlist sorting broke, for example). I’d contact customer support and they’d go through this whole “uninstall and reinstall the app, does it still happen?” …YES, it’s another bug for no reason! Stop breaking my shit!
With Spotify, it would often be an update that looks pretty but was harder to use, which is the exact opposite of what I care about… I’m here to listen to music as fast as possible and get on with my life, not scroll through giant menus with way too much spacing, when it used to all fit on one screen.
There are still usability issues with Tidal that are similar to Spotify (hard to find something specific, etc), but they basically never change anything about the core UI, it just always works the exact same with some minor additions here&there. And honestly it’s reduced my frustration dramatically.
- arpanetus 4y agoIs Tidal's UI lightweight(like it's not Electron)? What about the songs? Are you satisfied with the songs library? I'm thinking about switching since native spotify app's playing gif (or icon) spikes my CPU usage for some very strange reason.
- Beltalowda 4y agoI used Tidal for a while; it's mostly the same as Spotify in terms of UX. They also use Electron. The song library is similar. Back in the day I use Rdio, which had a pretty good UI; unfortunately they shut down.
- behnamoh 4y agoTidal doesn’t even let me play with it for a while to see if I like it to subscribe…
- gen3 4y agoThey have an ad supported free tier now