Tidal Lossless streaming

TwsT · 17 Sep 2014 at 12:03

Anyone spotted this?

link if anyone is interested.

~~http://lnc.hr/xy6e4~~

If you sign up via that link i apaprently have more chance of early access so if people are interested we could do a chain and sign up under eachother

not sure when it's coming out but you can sign up for a beta.

novaenough · 17 Sep 2014 at 12:44

Sounds - if you'll pardon the pun - interesting, shame there is no mention of cost though.
I've signed up using your link.
Mine is as follows:
http://lnc.hr/fzYnM

TwsT · 17 Sep 2014 at 13:19

yes that's one of the reasons i'd kind of like to sneak early access so i can maybe find out some costing.

Qobuz is £20 a month which is too much imo especially since lossless isn't available on the move.

Ninja Pirate · 17 Sep 2014 at 13:27

If this is article is accurate, I suspect the pricing will be £20/month

http://www.techradar.com/news/audio/spotify-has-a-new-lossless-rival-and-it-s-called-tidal-1263912

Personally I don't see the point in high res streaming. It's not something I'm likely to use on the go since it would eat through my data, and at the end of the day the difference between 320kbps (Spotify premium) and lossless is hard to distinguish. The only real benefit might be access to better masters.

TwsT · 17 Sep 2014 at 13:47

well i spent some time comparing qobuz to deezer and you're right it's incredibly hard to tell the difference.

but still will have to see when it comes out I'm open to all things especially if i can get it free for a bit

£19.99 per month and in the US a price of $19.99.

annoys me so much when they do this.

novaenough · 17 Sep 2014 at 13:56

I agree that for on the go use lossless is pretty pointless however I think being allowed to chose the quality you would like to use would be preferable. Any encouragement to increase/maintain standards should be welcomed, before we get sucked into unintentionally accepting poor quality bit rates by people who have no idea what they are settling for.

Spook187 · 17 Sep 2014 at 14:56

Ninja Pirate said:
If this is article is accurate, I suspect the pricing will be £20/month

http://www.techradar.com/news/audio/spotify-has-a-new-lossless-rival-and-it-s-called-tidal-1263912

Personally I don't see the point in high res streaming. It's not something I'm likely to use on the go since it would eat through my data, and at the end of the day the difference between 320kbps (Spotify premium) and lossless is hard to distinguish. The only real benefit might be access to better masters.

i disagree, the difference is very noticeable with good monitors or a decent set of cans.

http://lnc.hr/hr4ni

Yaayuh! · 17 Sep 2014 at 15:43

There's a thread here: http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18621861

Probably best for the hi-fi section rather than sounds city

rids57 · 17 Sep 2014 at 19:18

Rossi~ said:
There's a thread here: http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18621861

Probably best for the hi-fi section rather than sounds city

and why would that be?

BlackAle · 18 Sep 2014 at 02:35

Tidal give a bitrate of 1411kbps, the same as uncompressed CD. So they aren't even using lossless compression? what a waste of bandwidth.

Yaayuh! · 18 Sep 2014 at 08:30

rids57 said:
and why would that be?

Because this is the PC hardware section :confused:

andybird123 · 18 Sep 2014 at 09:23

Rossi~ said:
Because this is the PC hardware section

By that reasoning most of the threads in this section should be moved, as they are mostly headphone or headphone related (e.g. amps etc) and not PC specific

In fact a streaming service is probably more pc related than non pc hardware as you are most likely going to use a pc to stream

rids57 · 18 Sep 2014 at 10:21

Yep, if we want to get picky then everything except gaming headsets, powered speakers and sound cards should be moved - and then there's not much point in keeping the section as they could be moved to gaming peripherals.

Yaayuh! · 18 Sep 2014 at 11:33

But they're hardware that you'd use with a PC.

We're talking about a music service. Surely that would be better off with the hi-fi section no?

Maybe just me *shrugs* maybe it doesn't really fit in either. Regardless, probably worth merging them one way or another.

TwsT · 18 Sep 2014 at 11:41

can't merge them :/

if there is one in their so beit streaming service for lossless audio in a sub fora full of conversations about high quality audio components I see no issue.

It's relevant

rids57 · 18 Sep 2014 at 11:45

The "Home Cinema and Hi-Fi" forum is mostly about TVs, which is why I think this forum has become so popular. I think it started through people wanting better sound quality for gaming, so it branched into headphones and then external headphone amps and then DACs. Now it's got to the stage where it has it's own community, so post subjects are not so tightly adhered to.

An option: "Home Cinema and Hi-Fi" forum could be split into "Home Cinema" and "Hi-Fi". Then all these threads could be moved into "Hi-Fi", the threads concerning headsets and gaming sound could be moved to "gaming peripherals" and this forum could then be removed.

Marsman · 18 Sep 2014 at 14:59

Rossi~ said:
But they're hardware that you'd use with a PC.

We're talking about a music service. Surely that would be better off with the hi-fi section no?

Maybe just me *shrugs* maybe it doesn't really fit in either. Regardless, probably worth merging them one way or another.

The home cinema and Hi-Fi section is also hardware.

As this is a service, surely it should be put in the Music, box office, TV and book section?

Could go in any of them really.

rids57 said:
An option: "Home Cinema and Hi-Fi" forum could be split into "Home Cinema" and "Hi-Fi". Then all these threads could be moved into "Hi-Fi", the threads concerning headsets and gaming sound could be moved to "gaming peripherals" and this forum could then be removed.

So sound cards and PC audio software in general would end up in the gaming peripherals section?

If not there, then surely those threads cannot be placed in the Hi-Fi section, if that were to be separated from home cinema.

I can see this thread going off topic, if it hasn't done so already!

rids57 · 18 Sep 2014 at 15:19

I said "an" option, I never said it was perfect

Maybe we should just turn this forum into what it is already, basically anything "Audio" and use the "Home Cinema and Hi-Fi" forum for just "Home Cinema" - That would work

TwsT · 18 Sep 2014 at 16:07

I say screw you guys i'll post where i want

novaenough · 18 Sep 2014 at 16:17

TwsT said:
I say screw you guys i'll post where i want

Like your style TwsT