I have decided to permanently switch to Spotify once they offer the hifi tier. They have better selection and recommendation than Tidal. Tidal is useless for me without the connect. The connect is "coming soon", per their support. The user experience for me is not worth the money even if I have this deal. My music experience is incomplete and the only thing I listen to Tidal is complete albums that I look up in equipment reviews or user forums. I would rather pay full price on Spotify when they come up with the hifi.
On the question of Qobuz pricing the Studio Premier level is $14.99 or $15.89 with tax and includes hi-rez. The $249 someone quoted is for the Sublime tier which is $20.83 a month. The only real difference is Sublime lets you buy downloads at a discount, the Premier level for $14.99 is the deal.
For those of you who saw this late and think you missed it, IF you have the American Express Platinum card, they currently have an offer for $50 back on an expenditure of $50 or more at BestBuy.com!
If you join 'MYBestBuy' which one apparently has to do, the price for Tidal on BestBuy.com goes to $99.99, which gives me the original net cost of $49.99 for the offer.
Who listens to Neil Young? Go to his concert and 1/2 of it is all political BS. I switched and I had to go thru Roon for a couple of days to re-enter all my Tidal favorites. I found a bunch of new albums that I didn't have before and it was very easy to do within Roon.
Be VERY VERY careful with this deceptive company! I signed up for an introductory offer and absolutely could not get them to stop charging my credit card upon cancellation. I was forced to dispute the charges every month, which ultimately led to my having to cancel the credit card. I filed complaint after complaint with their "customer service" department and sent them a PM through FB all to no avail. All I kept getting was refer to our refund policy, which was very circular, with a closing of my dispute.
My advice is to try purchasing the special with a one-time visa gift card- not sure if that will work. Caveat emptor to say the least!
Great. Thanks @jmbumgarner01. I'm actually going through this exercise right now. I wanted to choose option 1, but not sure if I'm going to lose all my favorites. I'm waiting to hear back from Tidal.
I'm curious which option did you choose? if option 1, did you get to keep all your existing favorites?
I bought one but am a current subsciber on the month to month. Here is what you must do.
email.
TIDAL Support(TIDAL)
Jan 20, 2021, 9:41 AM EST
Hello,
Thank you for reaching out to TIDAL. My name is Nancy and I will be happy to help you with your Best Buy promotion.
The Best Buy promotion can only be added to inactive accounts.
You have two options:
1- You can keep the same account xxxx,but you will lose the remaining time that you have paid for.I would need to deactivate it then we can apply the promotion. (if you chose this option please send your best buy code so we can apply it).
2- You can create a new account with a different username and apply the Best Buy promotion. To avoid double billing you will need to cancel the previous account. We can help you transfer all your playlists and favorites to this new account.
This sounds like a good deal. I'm current Tidal HiFi subscriber at $19.99/month. Does anyone know if I can apply this discount to my existing Tidal account? or do I have to start a new account and cancel my existing one?
Vault 2i is great if you want to rip your CD’s. I also own Vault 2 which is strictly used for ripping CD’s and backup to my Aurender N10. Spotify is great as far as user interface and content. Only quirk, low resolution streaming. I don’t think Tidal or Qobuz can match the content of Spotify but they do offer better streaming quality. I doubt you would hear day n night difference with Vault 2i. Now if you plug Vault into a decent external DAC, that maybe worthwhile keeping Tidal or Qobuz. That’s what trial is for, listen n compare and decide for yourself what’s more important, content or sound quality.
I will probably go with a BlueSound Node 2i, but might get a Vault 2i and rip some of my 2500 CD collection to it. First want to find our what(if any) CDs I own that are not in the Tidal (or Qobuz) library.
I'm an avid user of Spotify Premium and I love it's functionality, recommendations and deep library. I hope I'm not disappointed in Tidal (or Qobuz).
Welcome to the world of unlimited music! There are plenty of threads here on devices to consider....for starters you can’t go wrong with Bluesound Node 2i.
@mofimadness - After mulling over this all day, I finally created a BB Account and ordered this @ about 1 am (EST). I've been contemplating a high-res streaming service for a couple of years, and this pushed me over the edge. I'm a frugal guy by nature and I hate subscriptions. But I couldn't pass this one up.
Thank you for this post! I just converted my $239.88 Tidal Hifi 12 month bill to $49.99! Only need a BB user account, which I already had. No BB credit card needed. Thanks again!
Just saw this post last night and decided at that price to try it. Easy to purchase and setup and have already populated a large list of songs. This looks like it can be as addictive as the audio game itself! Thanks for the post by the way.
I got around to seeing this around 1:50 AM on the 20th. At this time the only way to get the hi fi Tidal for 49.99 for the first year is to buy it with a Pop Smoke, vinyl album I have no interest in, for 29.99. Just my luck! Still a good deal at $80 for the fist year, but I don't like the principle. Will have to think about it....not the no-brainer that was descryesterday. rday.
Thanks for the heads up, MoFi. I just purchased a Cocktail Audio Streamer and I jumped on this deal. I am on a free trial on Qobuz and this deal is too good to pass up. I was going to do a Tidal trial next to see which service I wanted.
Thank you mofimadness for the heads up! I had cancelled Tidal a few months ago. I was able to use my old Tidal email address and password to login to Tidal through my Roon account. All the albums from Tidal that I had put into my Roon library before were re-populated. Very cool.
Thank You @mofimadness Now I have 2 problems. I cannot get the Android app to control the desktop app. And the Tidal playback is much better than my file based (FLAC) playback using Foobar. The hardware is same for both playback. But Tidal sounds amazingly detailed and musical at the same time. Amazingly tight bass and spacious. Of course Tidal massacred Spotify, as expected. Nothing new there. The definition inTidal playback is so good that it seems I was committing a crime by subscribing to Spotify.
kgturner, about 10 minutes after purchase I received email "Activate your new TIDAL HiFi subscription now" Then you choose which app - Desktop (can play highest level "Master"), chrome or Firefox or android, apple. The only step then is it asks to select 3 or more music favorites from a list. I selected at least 50 from most genres. It then made a Welcome Mix from that which I am greatly enjoying right now.
Mofi thank you for the alert!I've been curious about streaming for a while and when I saw this and that the stream is lossless WTH. Signed up and waiting for email confirmation to start...
That's pretty funny I just fired Tidal a few weeks ago to go exclusively with Qobuz. Maybe I will sign back up for $5 a month its a crazy deal and for $10 it's still excellent.
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