I like youtube as I get the video’s without ads as well, also often a favourite mix of a track wont be on spotify, or youtube music for that matter, but youtube has it on video and you can add that to a playlist.
I’m not a great album listener, lifes too short to listen to the tracks you don’t like
The constant stopping of Tidal no idea why and trying to speak to them on the phone wasted too much time and no apology for the days wasted due to constantly stopping access
They always made sure they got their money
When working fine Tidal was much the same as Spotify
Much as I wanted to use Tidal…my experience of it was similar to @redmex … bug ridden with pretty much random charging and access when attempting to set up a family sub.
OK, prompted by this thread I’ve just subscribed to a month’s free trial of Tidal. BTW this subscription will be £12.99/ mth from June, which is more than the pending increase to £11.99 I have for Spotify. Didn’t realise until the payment part! Anyway playing the same songs through Tidal and Spotify I cannot decern any difference in music quality. As I type this, I’ve just noticed my Dac going from 44.1 to 48.0, so certain tracks are streaming in higher quality. Anyone else perceive a difference? Streaming via Chromecast Audio.
YouTube Music for me, though only because I can’t live without YouTube Premium and the music gets lumped in for free.
Two things I don’t love about YouTube Music: 1) no app for my watch (1st world problem…) and 2) it only ever suggests the same stuff I’ve been listening to for years. Really hard to get out of a rut of listening to the same things. However, it works well and has all the music I want.
They’ve got find the money to pay for Joe Rogans new Spotify deal somehow, all that bro science and misinformation doesn’t come cheap.
I use Tidal hifi quality and Apple Music, although I rarely use Apple Music as I use roon as a player (Apple music doesn’t integrate into roon), never once used Spotify so can’t comment on similarities
