![]() ![]() Since Tidal re-launched, there's been a growing fear that major artists will jump ship and remove their work from Spotify - so far only Taylor Swift (entire back catalogue) and Jay Z (1996 'Reasonable Doubt' album) have done so. There's unlikely to be a mass exodus from Spotify by artists because most are under record-contracts, and therefore don't own the master recordings or the rights that come with them. A figure which reflects its market leading position and vast number of users. Spotify has over 30 million tracks on its books, with over 1.5-billion playlists created since it began. There’s also a 10% student discount available. The only difference is that family members of a premium tier subscriber get a 50% discount. The premium and family tiers give users full access to all of Spotify’s functions. Tablet and desktop users have the same restrictions, but can listen to music on-demand and edit playlists. However, on mobile, you can only listen to pre-curated playlists, skip six tracks per hour and you can’t listen anything on-demand or offline. The free tier speaks for itself, it’s ‘free’ in the sense that there’s no upfront cost but you’ll *pay* by listening to intermittent adverts if you access it on a mobile or tablet. ![]() Spotify has three tiers free, family and premium. It’s simply the largest and most well-known music streaming service around. Now, it has over 60 million users, with 15 million paying subscribers. Spotify is a veteran of the music streaming industry having streamed its first track back in 2008. Since then, however, exclusive content has been a bit scarce. Alongside some exclusively curated playlists by artists. ![]() When it was re-launched under Jay Z’s control earlier this year, music from Rihanna and a video from Beyonce and Nicki Minaj made-up some of the exclusive content. Tidal, which pays artists a larger share for their work, has attracted the likes of Swift (and many others) and has no free tier.īecause of Tidal’s support from major recording artists, there’s likely to be a temporary exclusive here and there. 45 million of Spotify’s 60 million users stream for free. But, crucially, some big-name artists - Like Taylor Swift - are removing their music from Spotify in protest over the ‘freemium’ tier, which allows users to listen to music for free, provided they also listen intermittent adverts. Tidal currently has over 30 million tracks on its books, around the same as Spotify and Apple Music. You’ll also need a good pair of headphones. Most of the latest top-end handsets have decent DAC and support 24-bit/192kHz music playback. If you’re listening on a smartphone, you’ll need a device with decent digital-to-analogue conversion or ‘DAC’. What’s the difference? Tidal’s high-fidelity sound is only available on the premium tier, this means that for $19.99 you’ll be able to listen to CD quality music using the Free Lossless Audio Codec or ‘FLAC’. Tidal costs $9.99 a month for the standard service and $19.99 for the ‘premium’ service. Here’s how it all breaks down:Ĭost: $9.99 or $19.99 for the premium tier What generated so many column inches for Tidal - aside from the bizarre star-studded launch event - was its promise of lossless audio and HD music videos. Tidal was the brain-child of tech company Aspiro, which was acquired by Jay Z’s company earlier this year. Tidal has a superstar roster of supporters/shareholders and one mega-star with his finger on the button - Jay Z. ![]()
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