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[–] 9 points 1 year ago (6 children)

This is great to see. I ended up moving to Tidal from Spotify, and even though there are some nice to have features missing from Tidal (an equivilant to spotify's sync between devices/speakers as well as a better Android Auto experience), it's a far superior experience.

Quobuz is also on my radar, but they've traditionally lacked in the music catalog space. I need to give them a try again now that it's been a few years.

That said, Tidal barely has Linux clients and I don't think I've seen much movement for Quobuz on Linux, unless I've just missed it.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago

    I moved from Spotify to tidal as well. Tidal is fine except for their catalogue mess. They tend to group different artists with same name to a single artist. Here and there I feedback them, they correct it in a week or so but the first next album is wrong again. But I'm glad that at least it pays music owners better and doesn't throw money at shit podcasts and such

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    There is Tidal Hi-Fi on linux, but I suspect that's what you mean by 'barely'

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Yep! It's a good app overall, even has some improvements over what is shipped on macOS.

    https://github.com/Nokse22/high-tide is new and promising for a better experience overall. I'd always prefer native over electron.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    It works well, what do you want more? Sure, it's not official but the most of the important bits are official since at it's core it's a web app.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    Absolutely! It works fairy well. A little clunky since the Linux support is bolted on after, but it's not noticeably worse than the macOS experience. The extra options it offers over what tidal ships to macOS are also nice.

    These non-native electron apps are all kinda junky for native music listening anyway. (This is a problem with Spotify's desktop app as well)

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Just anecdotal, but I transferred my fairly small library of about 500 songs from Tidal to Qobuz and nothing was missing. I even added back some songs I lost going from Spotify to Tidal. Nothing super niche though.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    Good to know. I only lost about 30 out of 5000 or so going from Spotify to Tidal. Seems like the catalog gaps for both Tidal and Quobuz have become less of an issue over the last few years.

    The big annoyances were some playlists with orchestral and jazz albums that I had to find again via slightly different album names, but those are a mess on any platform due to re-releases and compilations being chaotic enough in that space as it is.

    I've heard (annecdotaly) that Quobuz is much better for orchestral and instrumental music in general. Spotify wasn't great for it. Tidal is a bit worse, but far superior than Spotify for Jazz at least.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I've moved to Deezer, love the HiFi audio! Also works well under Linux using Mellowplayer

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    I'm on th e verge of doing the same. Do we know how much Deezer pays artists?

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    Generally not a lot, less than Spotify I think. They do have a slightly different system though, I can't remember the details. I think if you listen to a specific artist more than others, they will get more money from your subscription fee or something like that

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (2 children)

    What's wrong with just using tidal in a browser? Zen just added a media player widget too so it's almost like having a native app that's always controllable on screen

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    I'd rather have it in my desktop workspace than nested in a web browser, plus it can integrate better with native media API's for media buttons, notifications, and other items being aware of the audio, which the tidal web app doesn't do out of the box.

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