messengertrio.blogg.se - Tidal vs spotify

#TIDAL VS SPOTIFY PC#
#TIDAL VS SPOTIFY BLUETOOTH#
#TIDAL VS SPOTIFY PLUS#
#TIDAL VS SPOTIFY DOWNLOAD#

It took Apple 1 year since the Beats acquisition and launch of the newly branded service to get to 15 million subs.

Spotify is getting into video streaming to help keep subscribers engaged, as well as partnership with Uber to listen while driving.

They raised $1B in debt in March 2016 with an unknown valuation.

Spotify’s 2015 fundraising valued the company at $8.5B.

It took Spotify 10 years since being founded in April 2006 to get to 30 million subs and 100 million users.

So, over the last 24 months Spotify is growing at (30M - 10M / 24 months) 0.8M subs per month.

Spotify had 20 million subscribers one year ago right before Apple Music launched so they grew by 10 million subs over the last 12 months.

Spotify has 30 million paid subscribers (100 million total users, which is about a 30% user to subscriber conversion rate).

Spotify has raised nearly $1.6B since their first raise in 2008.

So, a few facts from each of the major providers are below, along with a valuation chart based on their monthly paid subscriber growth. I thought it might be interesting to provide a bit more in depth analysis of the situation for readers here. Right, I’m going to put my earphones in, plug in my phone, and engage in a thoroughly enjoyable fashion with something from the approximately 40,000 tracks in my phone’s library, along with a nice Highland Park.Yesterday I tweeted some quick thoughts out about how I would value Apple Music in comparison to its major competitor, Spotify.

#TIDAL VS SPOTIFY DOWNLOAD#

I don’t stream, I download from Apple Music, and I also have a lot of music that I had ripped into iTunes then uploaded to the Cloud, so I have direct comparisons between 320Kb files and those downloaded from Apple, and they’re indistinguishable from each other, I have no idea which I’m listening to and I’m certain that nobody else could either. People found music to be engaging and indistinguishable from a live performance when listening to wax cylinders! And that is recorded fact, I simply cannot believe that anyone can make a value judgment on whether one service sound better than another if the comparisons are months apart, the human brain just cannot do that.įWIW, I use Apple EarPods, Edifier NeoBuds (which are small BT units), MeeAudio Pinnacle IEMS and Taotronics headphones, both wired and BT, the cable being a 3.5mm to Lightning, and the Pinnacles, of which I have two pairs, one with a MeeAudio BT adapter, which is a cable joining the earphones with battery one side, remote the other, and the others with a Pinion Lightning to MMCX connection, which is my preference. How can you possibly tell, considering that “well its ages since i had apple music”, and nobody can retain the information regarding what is basically a subjective matter, like how music sounds when played through different items of equipment. I will say that Tidal is way better overall for sound than apple music, and is far more engaging musically if you use decent hi-fi equipment. Well its ages since i had apple music and that was through a beresford dac into a pre/power. They’re much better now, since Apple took them over they’ve changed the EQ and improved them a lot. Take the Dr Dre Beats headphones for instance, bass heavy and folk think they’re amazing.

#TIDAL VS SPOTIFY PLUS#

A mate has one and HiFi Plus sounds pretty damn good, but haven’t compared HiFi side by side with HiFi plus. The HiFi Plus account requires you to have a DAC that is equipped with a fancy algorithm that can decode the files. Certainly Apple music don’t give you lossless quality over bluetooth.Ĭan’t find any EQ in the the Tidal player, but there is a loudness normalization switch that you could try on or off (similar to Spotify’s volume normalization)

#TIDAL VS SPOTIFY BLUETOOTH#

I am not sure that playing it over Bluetooth allows sufficient data to deliver that CD quality.

#TIDAL VS SPOTIFY PC#

So running it direct to a HiFi from a DAC through the PC player or Phone app should do that, as should streaming over Wifi to a Chromecast or other streamer. Tidal’s HiFi sub is supposed to deliver same as CD quality, which is quite a bit more data than Spotify (who have been talking HiFi quality rumors for ever but no date)Īs I understand it the quality of Tidal is dependent on the kit you’re playing on being able to cope with the data rate.

If you are going sea fishing and listening on the phone you’d prob want to listen in normal quality and save your data

(though I’m sure some of you won’t believe that 😜) Listening to the same track on Spotify or TIdal HiFi – the Tidal stream does sound clearer and more detailed for me.