Hello, everybody, I’ve been thinking to move on from my Spotify subscription to move to Tidal or Deezer. I want to try out HIFI audio, but still get a good and stable experience. Are there any suggestions for which one I should pick? Could you also tell about your experience with those apps, or are there any other you would recommend more?
I realize you asked for other recommendations, but I suspect you don’t want to actually maintain your own music library but rather want streaming services recommended?
Of the two alternatives you are currently looking for I do have experience with Deezer, although it has been two years at least. The music library is almost as complete as Spotify in my experience I rarely had issues with songs not being on there. The recommendation algorithm at the time was nice, but would sometimes get stuck in a hyper specific genre that would only reinforce itself.
For HIFI audio you basically do need fairly good audio gear for it (decent wired headphones for example), I’d say that for most people it is not worth paying extra for as it is really difficult to tell the difference.
One other service I have used is Youtube Music as it is included in premium. It does not have an HIFI option but otherwise is fairly okay. Basically worth looking into if you were also considering Youtube premium, but otherwise not really special.
Leaving this one up but just a friendly reminder about rule 2 in the sidebar and that we ask folks to submit questions like this to !askandroid@lemdro.id. Thanks!
Also a reminder for others to subscribe there, so we can ensure a dedicated space for those seeking help while maintaining the essence of what made /r/Android enjoyable for everyone :)
It looks like the . at the end of your sentence is interfering with the link to the community name, at least on my instance.
Just FYI for future posts and if anyone gets community-not-found, remove the .
Weird, are you using at app? It seems to be working fine from lemdro.id and lemmy.world from the web on my end. Link also follows through. Could you share a screenshot by chance?
Oh, it looks like it’s a bug in the new interface for https://old.lemmy.world
If I view the post using the regular (web and non-old) interface it works. First time I’ve seen that, but old.lemmy.world is new as of a few days ago. I wonder where I report that… I will look around. Thanks for the reply I didn’t think of old being a potential issue :)
I’m tired of monthly subscriptions. I bought a lifetime Plex Pass. PlexAmp is a great app that plays music you own(or as close to owning as you can get).
I’ve been very happy with Tidal. I prefer the UX to the Spotify app but it is lacking some functionality like Spotify Connect. It’s also nice that they pay artists more, and that none of my subscription fees are feeding into a $200 million contract for Joe Rogan.
If you use Google Home/Assistant, Tidal doesn’t integrate well. It does integrate with Alexa.
As far as audio quality, I’m reasonably certain that I’d be unable to discern between the top tiers of any of the current services in a blind A/B test.
My personal recommendation: FLAC torrents and rebuild a library like the good old days. But I know that’s just me.
