New Tidal Pricing

[Jimbob54]

Looks like the revised pricing structure trialed a few months ago in Australia has gone live on the UK today.

HiFi tier is now £9.99 pm replacing the old aac based tier. So this is "lossless" or thereabouts

HiFi plus is mqa, atmos etc at £19.99pm

 

[buz]

And Spotify Lossless is still nowhere to be seen....

 

[Jimbob54]

And Spotify Lossless is still nowhere to be seen....

It will be £10 a month or less when it emerges from hibernation though.

 

[levimax]

Qobuz lowered their price to $12.99 per month in September.

 

[Soniclife]

Is this bit new?

It's only listed on the HIFI+ tier.

 

[sweetchaos]

Tidal is making some significant changes to its subscription plans and introducing a free, ad-sponsored tier for the first time. The new Tidal Free plan launches today, is exclusive to the US, and the company says it offers “access to our entire music catalog and playlists, with limited interruptions.” Streaming quality tops out at 160kbps, however.

TIDAL now offers three membership options for fans to choose from: TIDAL Free (US-only), TIDAL HiFi, and TIDAL HiFi Plus.

Just checked, no Canada support for FREE-tier…

Waiting for Spotify lossless myself.

 

[SKBubba]

$10/mo is the new commodity pricing for CD quality streaming. And Spotify falls further and further behind.

 

[SKBubba]

Also, if Tidal Hifi is true 16/44 flac, it puts them at the top of the heap with good desktop/mobile apps, Tidal connect, and good discovery and auto-play features.

 

[LearningToSmile]

Worth noting that Tidal seems to have a decent regional pricing scheme - I'm paying a hair under $10 for HiFi Plus after the change. Not exactly accounting for income disparity but certainly better than services that just charge US prices + VAT, or even worse, are completely unavailable(looking at you, Quobuz).

 

[Jimbob54]

Is this bit new?
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It's only listed on the HIFI+ tier.

I hadnt seen that before this change and the email I got refers. Hadnt twigged it was only on the top tier though (which is now at least £8pm more than rivals)

 

[Jimbob54]

Tidal is making some significant changes to its subscription plans and introducing a free, ad-sponsored tier for the first time. The new Tidal Free plan launches today, is exclusive to the US, and the company says it offers “access to our entire music catalog and playlists, with limited interruptions.” Streaming quality tops out at 160kbps, however.

TIDAL now offers three membership options for fans to choose from: TIDAL Free (US-only), TIDAL HiFi, and TIDAL HiFi Plus.

Just checked, no Canada support for FREE-tier…

Waiting for Spotify lossless myself.

Get your sleeping bag out ....

 

[Marc v E]

I changed from Spotify to Tidal and have a youtube premium subscription now. Most noteworthy is the incredibly accurate predictions from google's youtube music. Within a month it is 80-90% correct. Spotify was more like 50% after 2 years (!)

 

[Jimbob54]

Also, if Tidal Hifi is true 16/44 flac, it puts them at the top of the heap with good desktop/mobile apps, Tidal connect, and good discovery and auto-play features.

At risk of this going down the emmmkewwwayyy rabbit hole, I believe some of the hifi tier files are MQA without the ability to unfold rather than "pure" 16/44 FLAC- we all know those debates about what that actually means.

 

[Madjalapeno]

Not at home, but if Tidal free worked with Roon it would be awesome. Doubt it though.

 

[TimW]

Sweet! My downgrade is pending. Nice to save $10 a month and not have to deal with MQA. Has anyone confirmed that Roon and Plex continue to work with the new Tidal Hifi tier?

 

[Jimbob54]

Sweet! My downgrade is pending. Nice to save $10 a month and not have to deal with MQA. Has anyone confirmed that Roon and Plex continue to work with the new Tidal Hifi tier?

No, UAPP on Android does though. No reason any front end software shouldnt work- hifi plus is just Hifi renamed and (new)Hifi is what was (old) Hifi if you set your player to "Hifi" rather than "Master" (ie with MQA enabled)

 

[Raindog123]

Sweet! My downgrade is pending. Nice to save $10 a month and not have to deal with MQA. Has anyone confirmed that Roon and Plex continue to work with the new Tidal Hifi tier?

I just tried Tidal with Roon. I used to have the lowest paid (family) that I guess is now became the “hifi” (I am in the US). Had to logoff/logon to Tidal in Roon for the change to take effect. What was Roon’s brownish AAC ”dot” is now purple 44/16 FLAC.

As before, some of my Tidal titles are reported as “normal” [PCM] FLACs (“TIDAL FLAC 44.1kHz 16bit 2 ch”) while others are MQA FLACs (“TIDAL FLAC 44.1kHz 16bit 2 ch, MQA 44.1kHz… Authentication MQA 44.1kHz”).

Choosing “Master“ vs “HiFi” in Roon’s Settings\Services\Tidal\Edit\Streaming Quality does not seem to affect anything at all for me.

 

[Jimbob54]

I just tried Tidal with Roon. I used to have the lowest paid (family) that I guess is now became the “hifi” (I am in the US). Had to logoff/logon to Tidal in Roon for the change to take effect. What was Roon’s brownish AAC ”dot” is now purple 44/16 FLAC.

As before, some of my Tidal titles are reported as “normal” FLACs (“TIDAL FLAC 44.1kHz 16bit 2 ch”) while some others are “TIDAL FLAC 44.1kHz 16bit 2 ch, MQA 44.1kHz… Authentication MQA 44.1kHz.

That is how UAPP reports some files now I am on the (new) Hifi tier. Same as when i was on the (old) hifi tier but set it to "hifi" quality (not Master)- clear? Not really!

 

[MalinYamato]

I got an email from Tidal that Tidal is upgrading my account to Hifi Plus with the same price as before, and I was euphoric with joy, but the joy was short-lived, as I soon found out that it is not an upgrade just a change of the name from hifi to a fancier name hifi plus.

 

[Jimbob54]

Not at home, but if Tidal free worked with Roon it would be awesome. Doubt it though.

Not sure what the caveat is with the free tier and cant test as not in the US. Lower res or ads?