For me this is actually a real frustration and one I’m amazed they haven’t addressed. When I’m driving I like to be able to control music by voice, unfortunately the TIDAL mobile app has neither native voice control (like Alexa) nor does it integrate with the ‘OK Google’ assistant (like Spotify), leaving it a manual process. Yet when I do a search for just ‘hey boy hey girl’ and click View All I can scroll down and see the track there: The first real bug-bear I have with Tidal is the search facility, it doesn’t appear to do searching based on all parameters in the database.Īs an example, I wanted to search for a new mix of the The Chemical Brothers “Hey Boy, Hey Girl” called the “Kink Extended Edition”, unfortunately a search for ‘hey boy hey girl kink’ yields no results, so I assumed it wasn’t in the library: No search results for ‘Hey boy hey girl kink’ You can play from six devices at the same time if they have the music downloaded and cached offline (so not streaming basically). You can stream music to only one device at a time. Streaming LimitationĪs with Spotify, TIDAL has a limitation when it comes to streaming on multiple devices. As you can see here, there is already a significant number of people requesting this feature from Serato. The only downside of the TIDAL integration at present is that you must be online for it to work which i problematic to say the least, I can understand if you have to connect every 30 days or so to validate your subscription to TIDAL but this is seriously limiting for some venus. When DJs buy a record, they don’t buy a special ‘broadcast’ version for additional rights – nor should that exist with streaming music, after all DJing promotes music with audience members using services like ‘Shazam’ to find out what a song is so they can go and buy it themselves. When I’ve DJ’d at festivals, the festivals would ask for a list of the songs played so appropriate commissions could be paid for the broadcast rights. I cry bullsh*t on this because the burden of payment for transmission lies with the event, venue or broadcaster. I’ve seen many discussions around DRM issues here with people saying that because a DJ is performing, streaming platforms aren’t allowed to link to integrate with professional entertainment tools. This is a fantastic idea and makes great sense. Serato DJ Pro IntegrationĪ big winner for TIDAL here is their integration with the Serato DJ Pro software. On some forums when people have complained about the lack of quality on Spotify and been shot-down by others for not manually setting the quality to ‘high’ rather than ‘auto’ but to my mind, you shouldn’t have to and either ‘auto’ isn’t working properly (I’m generally on a very fast connection) or Spotify best quality is poor compared to TIDAL. This was noticable on both my cheap car stereo and my Sennheiser headphones. Now this wasn’t even something I was looking for at this stage because I hadn’t checked to see if different services had different quality levels, it just jumped out at me. When I started playing the same songs I’d been listening too recently on Spotify and/or Amazon Music on TIDAL, I noticed an immediate improvement in quality. My more detailed review is below but for those after “just the facts”, here’s my comparison table: ![]() So in summary, I will more than likely cover what you are looking for in one or more of the above aspects of my review. Finally, I also DJ (using Serato DJ Pro) and have the challenge of listening to music via streaming services (and curating playlists) but not being able to have this linked to my DJ setup.įor those curious as to the hardware I use, after previously using the excellent – yet discontinued – Numark NS7, I opted for its cheaper cousin the Numark NS6II. At home I have multiple smart home devices used to listen to music in different room. ![]() Firstly, I love to listen to music – just about anything goes in my opinion and I do so at work, in the car and at home. To give this review some context, I thought I ought to explain my goals when reviewing/comparing the streaming services Tidal, Spotify and Amazon Music.
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