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paf0@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

• BeardedBlaze@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  I liked tidal, until they doubled my subscription cost.

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  • paf0@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Did that happen when they rolled out HiFi for everyone? They actually lowered my HiFi family plan cost at that time, which was unexpected.

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    • BeardedBlaze@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Yup. It’s also when they discontinued their Military and First Responder plans.

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  • br3d@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Interestingly, my family subscription more or less halved a few months ago, which I was NOT expecting, but which was very welcome

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• whynotzoidberg@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  3 months ago I cancelled Spotify, following yet another price increase. I went to Tidal for the 2 month trial, and another month full price.

  This month I cancelled Tidal, following their deprecation of Plex integration, my finding a couple tracks with bad meta data, and some other here-and-there’s where the service was lackluster.

  I’m current on Apple Music.

  I like that Apple Music has lossless, like Tidal did. The Apple Music algo seems a bit better so far, even comparing to Spotify or the last time I tried Apple Music (~3-4 years ago). And, one of the things I didn’t know I wanted, music videos for my morning jam time, are better with Apple Music.

  I imagine I’ll be staying here for a while.

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• Hazmatastic@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Made the switch to Tidal, and I only have a couple nitpicks: no console app and it does this weird thing on desktop where it plays a split second of paused music when other apps or windows are opened. They’re small things though, and I’m happy to be supporting artists more.

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  • paf0@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Sometimes I miss the Spotify “Radio” playlists. Also, having the desktop sync with mobile so I could just switch players and keep the same playlist was also nice. It’s been over two years though and I don’t miss it enough to go back, Tidal is mostly a comparable experience.

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    • JustARaccoon@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      You can get a radio playlist of most songs I believe, it’s a context option, unless you mean a different type of radio playlist, but the feature I mentioned has satisfied that need for me

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      • paf0@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Yes, I use the Tidal playlists, artist radio and mixes as a replacement. I swear Spotify used to have genre based radio, but it’s been a while since I have used it.

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