[babyboy44]

also 20$s a month? my phone bill is less!

[Bang Up]

On the plus side, this might push iTunes to start offering HD music videos.

The funny thing is that iTunes and Spotify would only have to change, like, two things to obliterate this platform. Spotify can start offering "exclusive content and videos" while iTunes can start offering HD videos.

[StephenNYMonster]

This doesn't sound like a sound investment to a consumer. If you bring it down to its bare bones all people will see is that Tidal is asking you for 10-20 dollars while spotify is free and if you like it, it is 10 bucks. I don't use either, since like I said in another thread if I like the music, I will buy it and keep it.

[Cupid]

Lol, no thanks. I deleted Spotify once it changed from free to premium or w.e

I like my music free.

Unless it's an album/song I REALLY like. A bitch has better things to spend money on.

[ezra]

Only way this'll work is if all artists (at least big ones) pulled away from spotify and went exclusively to tidal. It'll never happen though

[Mani.]

If you have bad earphones you're still ****ed either way, so does it really matter? Lol.

[Witchpop]

Someone posted this on another website and I'm screaming

The fact that Tidal streams in lossless quality (i.e. identical to the raw output of a music CD) just means it's easier to pirate albums in max quality. What a delightful innovation!

The truth

[Kisuke]

The carters are so powerfu.

[VDK]

I don't even understand how this thread got so messy so quick.

In all honesty, I believe that $20 a month is actually an outrageous amount to ask for a month simply because we are already not used to paying it, and starting now, out of the blue just seems so unnecessary

And truth be told, all this jumbo about looseless sound may be brilliant but let's be honest, nobody really cares.

However, I think at some point, you have to actually just get to that point where you realize that your artistes are putting in A LOT of work into this music...paying engineers, studio time, all of that jumbo.

I'm not even talking big names like Jay or Bey, I'm talking like your average artiste that finally is able to pull some funds together to make a CD (ala many indie artistes).

The fact that we feel that we have the RIGHT to just illegally download and listen to that music is NOT COOL, and believe me, it's wrong...but society has reached that point where that is now the norm.

What Tidal is tryna do with this, I think...is just give artistes especially an avenue where they can actually receive money for their work...which I personally think is a good thing.



Stream Natalia's Trouble On Tidal

[foxaylove]

I'll hear Jigga out for his formal announcement, but I need to see what incentive it is to subscribe to Tidal over the other services such as Spotify. If it's basically the same thing as Spotify, but with music videos, it's not worth it to me and would just be screaming, exploit others for personal monetary gain. He's a business man, so launching this new venture will surly pocket him millions more than what he was previously making. That's where my skepticism lie.

Everyone these days are offering premium subscription services (Hulu, Netflix, Pandora, Beats, and even HBO is jumping on the bandwagon)

[Changes]

And this release couldn't have come at a better time. Spotifys latest updates have been the pits.

[Melquiades]

How petty of all these celebrities wanting to make a movement out of such a vanal thing. The backlash is going to be real.

[KylieistBoi]

It will be fun to see everyone dragging Tidal have an account there as soon as these people take their music from Spotify.

Hope they go WW asap tho, I want this to be successful and available in my country.

[Homewrecker]

[BlooRiverAnimal]

All I see are lashings throughout this thread, why?

[suneclipse121]

I swear. Yall are gonna explode when Spotify goes premium only.
JayZ is just staying ahead of the curve.

[Anvarie]

Doc if I see you one more gotdamn time mention "20$" when you know full well that there's a 10$ option



Woooo


Don't act new

[Toroya]

nothing is safe from free streaming/downloads so why?

[Witchpop]

#BIKMM (Bitch I'm Keepin My Money) [sang to the tune of Bitch Better Have My Money]

[Forevermore]

Originally posted by KylieistBoi

It will be fun to see everyone dragging Tidal have an account there as soon as these people take their music from Spotify.

Hope they go WW asap tho, I want this to be successful and available in my country.

That isn't happening. However, it will be funny to see everyone supporting Tidal disappear as soon as it becomes evident that it will never be able to take down Spotify.