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Chimp Paradox

Chimp Paradox

Chimp Paradox

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Anyone else trial/use? I'm very impressed.

This may lead me to do what I've always wanted. Buy my favourite music on vinyl and stream the rest. No difference in sound quality between this and my flacs on j river.
 
im interested in it but i would like to be able to browse their selection first before i put any of my card details in. also wish it was 24bit to
 
Ooooooh nice... I've been using spotify for a while but been craving something without the squished highs/lows of MP3 as i've been trying to avoid streaming at home.
 
Chimp Paradox said:
Anyone else trial/use? I'm very impressed.

This may lead me to do what I've always wanted. Buy my favourite music on vinyl and stream the rest. No difference in sound quality between this and my flacs on j river.
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Yep started my 60 day free trial couple of weeks ago.

Sound wise is seems OK.
Today I gave up and switched to streaming radio as it kept buffering every 3-4 seconds.... (I have a 80 meg Line). First time it happened so hopefully just a glitch as they have sudden influx of people signing up to the trials.

I like the idea, as you say great way to try out or have a convenient copy for stuff you would like to have on vinyl.

Cost is a bit of a "rip off Britian" $20/£20... 1:1 ratio.... hmm nice :rolleyes:

Need to see how the choice of albums increases and the service settles down... all being well I'll let it run past the 60 day trial.
 
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totally agree with that psycho. High res is bull
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it isn't bull it's just that humans cannot tell the difference, there was a really good debate about it in the sound city section of the forums, if you search for it you may find it. it had links to research and many articles, etc.

it also went into khz differences as well as bit rates, etc.

basically everything that a human can hear can fit into a 16 bit signal, all 24 bit does is add stuff which humans cannot hear or tell the difference between it and 16 bit. i think they just expand the 16 bit sound into 24 bit, a bit like upscaling on a monitor.

it's a lot more technical than that but basically anyone saying i wish they did 24 bit sound doesn't know what they are talking about. this is purely sound i am talking about nothing else.

human eyes for instance can tell the difference between 16 bit colour and higher, etc.

that was another part of the debate some humans have much better hearing than others, etc but even those with super hearing wouldn't be able to tell the difference.
 
Have signed up to this and enjoying it so far, sounding great out of my B&W 685s, great selection of music although I'm not really an alternative fan so not sure what that is like.

Will definitely continue subscribing and not buying any albums for now.
 
Exporting/transferring Tidal/spotify/itunes playlists

Have been enjoying Tidal Hi-fi/flac 3 month trial - but that is ending and I not sure I want to part with £20p/m to continue (just a pity you cannot pick up voucher for £2 p/m on ebay like sky nowtv tv.)
so I need to export the playlists, the streamers seem to make exporting playlists difficult - lol
found 3 options

Soundiiz App
however it will only transfer playlists between streamers and not export Tidals 'My albums' or 'My tracks', for which all I can do is take a screen snaphsot.
If you want to export playlists to a text file or csv you have to get pay version & spend $4.50 p/m, more expensive than nowtv !

caveat Before I get into the specifics of using Soundiiz, let me share the big caveat: In order to transfer your playlists between services, you need to sign into those services -- which means revealing your usernames and passwords.
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Not wild about that idea? There's an easy workaround: change your password(s) after you're done using Soundiiz.
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Interestingly, you can copy playlists to Soundiiz proper if you want an online repository for them. That might help if, say, you're canceling a subscription to one music service and not yet ready to migrate to another. Soundiiz can be your holding tank.
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playlistconvertor
Does not do Tidal, seems new, and has little feedback

I had read about exporting spotify to excel but does not seem to work

so does anyone have a good solution ??
 
Pay the £20 a month or build new play lists in a new a App/provider.
I signed up over 2 years ago, £20 a month has saved me a fortune in not buying CD's or albums I don't like, plus I've listed to more albums than I would have ever bought.
Music shouldn't be free, same as I don't work for free.
 
I use the B&W P7 wireless headphones to listen to music at work and a B&W Zeppelin Wireless at home. I have subscribed to Google music, am I going to notice much difference in terms of quality with Tidal?
 
try it and see - using 3 month HIFI/flac trial via android sennheiser app (see hotuk)
the master recordings are definitely good digital transfers (at 96Khz/24bit to boot) some of the albums, although flac >400Kb/s, are nonetheless poor cd compressed renditions,
whatever the record companies threw at them (but that probbaly happens in spotify and google too) the documentation on albums is not clear about their provenance,
and for particular tracks you can find better produced versions on utube at ~130Kb/s aac (I often use stevehoffman to identify good recordings)

edit: Don't believe their offline/download capability is very good, so you will need the bandwidth at work.
 
I cant tell the difference with anything beyond 320 mp3. I've had a few .flac albums in the past which sounded louder at lower volume but certainly not clearer. I'm not exactly using state of the art equipment though. Spotify for me as its cheaper and has a larger collection.
 
9designs2 said:
Pay the £20 a month or build new play lists in a new a App/provider.
I signed up over 2 years ago, £20 a month has saved me a fortune in not buying CD's or albums I don't like, plus I've listed to more albums than I would have ever bought.
Music shouldn't be free, same as I don't work for free.
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I don't see how? CD's aren't that expensive. Usually get brand new ones in HMV 2 for £15. older stuff is 2 for £10, etc.

£20 a month IMO is extortionate. For £20 a month I could get Netflix, Prime and Spotify or Tidal on it's own. Doesn't seem like good value for money IMO. I also find it crazy that audio is more expensive than video (that has audio combined). e.g. Netflix is £8 a month and Tidal (audio only) is £20.
 
Tidal is catering to a specialist market who are willing to pay for higher quality audio files. I'm pretty happy with Spotify at high bitrate and that has definitely saved me a fortune over CDs (I pay £15 a month for a family subscription). CDs are very cheap at the moment because no one is buying them! Before Spotify I would have bought three CDs a month minimum and would have listened to far less and discovered far less. I would actually pay double if not more for Spotify considering the utility that my family and I get from it.
 
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