You can't favorite artists, you can follow them for notifications but there is no place to see all the ones you follow. If you already have Prime, getting HiFi for $8 a month is impressive but the app and ecosystem is terrible IMO.īest pricing for the time being, but only if you have Prime already Unless you want the cheapest option possible for HiFi music, I would stay far away from this one. No podcast support other than music specific ones And some songs never seem to get included Terrible shuffle algorithm, it's gotten better over the years but still I will often play a playlist on shuffle and hear things in the same order I did just the other day.
Just now finally got a WebOS app for example Not available on a ton of devices, not the worst when it comes to this but not the best either. No lyrics (at least not yet, might be soon) Notification system doesn't seem to always notify me of new music by my followed artists Random tracks not playing, once in a while it'll take minutes to load a track (on a fast connection), etc.ĭiscoverability is sub-par, not the worst but not very good either even with the more recent improvements Tidal is pretty buggy, I wouldn't say the buggiest of all of them but it's more than I'd prefer. However, it is measurable worse than lossless FLAC 16 bit and they do charge for proprietary stuff which is something I'm heavily against (being an open source lover). I want to be clear that if you think MQA sounds fine then that is totally OK, to each their own. MQA is mostly snake oil crap, and while I don't actually care that it is, it's infuriating that you can't get the 16 bit FLAC files on tracks that are "Masters" I had been gone for years and decided to give it another shot due to the Plex integration finally being speedy (used to take forever to play anything), but the app and platform overall just seem nearly identical to how they were 4 years ago. Updated 6/24/22: Development seems particularly slow on their platform.
Deezer for artists full#
Has full credit and contributing artist listings, something the others don't, can be nice for music discover. Has integration with the Roon music app which is nice for those wanting a sort of all in one solution
Deezer for artists windows#
Supports direct stream to DACs without having to process through Windows etc.
Integration with Plex so you can mix self owned music with streaming music Here are the pros and cons to it in my opinion.įantastic looking interface, while I don't find it the most functional I do think it looks probably the best out of all of themĪrtist pay is better than most other services (aside from Qobuz and Deezer, I'll explain more on the Deezer front though as there is a bit of nuance to it) Tidal was a fantastic service for a long time, they pay pretty good to artists and have an overall pretty solid app. I would also add that any codec that introduces measurable artifacting such as MQA is NOT HiFi by my definition." "I would say I define HiFi as anything that is 16bit 44.1Khz or higher, also excluding any lossy codes including those better than MP3 such as AAC. U/cryptorealist mentioned I didn't really define HiFi here, so I wanted to put my response here to show that. This mostly is focused on the current HiFi platforms though so I'll put the "mini review" part of those at the bottom of the list. I'll also say that it's been a few years since I've used Spotify and I only tested YT Music and Apple Music for a short period so it's possible I miss something on those ones.
I will be reposting this to a lot of music subreddits so hopefully that is OK.įor a little background, I was a Tidal user for about 4 years but the MQA stuff just got too annoying for me so I started shopping around to other options. I realize not everyone does this so I wanted to put together my thoughts after finally settling on Deezer. So I'm one of those people that decides to test almost all available offerings when I swap services to something new, not just for music but for a lot of stuff. Updated 6/24/22: Mostly with new info about Qobuz as it has improved.
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