Speaking during a Summer Game Fest interview with Game Business Live (via GameSpot), Microsoft's recently installed Xbox chief strategy officer, Matthew Ball, spoke about the impact of...
For me it was Spotify. Their radio mixes were far too repetitive and I got sick of hearing the same songs so I shopped around, and I found out Tidal offers higher quality streaming at a lower price. Extra bonus: Tidal’s radio mixes are far more diverse. Small caveat: not everything is on Tidal; some albums missing, some artists don’t publish to it because Spotify and iTunes are the forerunners with most tech manufacturers supporting them natively (such as the Spotify integration in Bose hardware), whereas Tidal maintains the audiophile niche (only integrated with Sonos and Bang & Olufsen I believe).
I really want to move to Tidal, cheaper and better quality audio. I just wish they’d implement smart speaker support as that’s the only blocker for my family.
Sure I can load up the app, play a song and select the speaker as a pkayback device, but for the rest of my house this is either too much effort compared to saying “play x”, or they’re minors without phones.
Exactly. People hate change and when you force them to change they will almost never come back if they find a decent alternative
For me it was Spotify. Their radio mixes were far too repetitive and I got sick of hearing the same songs so I shopped around, and I found out Tidal offers higher quality streaming at a lower price. Extra bonus: Tidal’s radio mixes are far more diverse. Small caveat: not everything is on Tidal; some albums missing, some artists don’t publish to it because Spotify and iTunes are the forerunners with most tech manufacturers supporting them natively (such as the Spotify integration in Bose hardware), whereas Tidal maintains the audiophile niche (only integrated with Sonos and Bang & Olufsen I believe).
I really want to move to Tidal, cheaper and better quality audio. I just wish they’d implement smart speaker support as that’s the only blocker for my family.
Sure I can load up the app, play a song and select the speaker as a pkayback device, but for the rest of my house this is either too much effort compared to saying “play x”, or they’re minors without phones.