Switched to Tidal when Spotify announced their reduction in artist pay, and I can highly recommend it. The interface is much better, although lacking podcasts (but luckily there are many great FOSS podcasts apps out there).
I was mostly joking but I’m just so over podcasts. Even when people who I like and follow on YouTube talk about their podcasts my eyes glaze over.
I have so little time and patience for low effort hours long drivel that i find what I’m doing now more worthwhile than listening to a podcast. Not saying all podcasts are like this obviously but that’s my default assumption.
“lacking podcasts” is a plus for most people, I think.
But Tidal’s interface is a bit worse for me in one thing: it lacks the “remote control” Spotify has: controlling playback from any device on any device (e.g. playing on the computer and using the phone as a remote) and also the ability to transfer the playback from one device to another - like pausing it on the computer, picking up the phone, connecting it to car and resuming playback.
Switched to Tidal when Spotify announced their reduction in artist pay, and I can highly recommend it. The interface is much better, although lacking podcasts (but luckily there are many great FOSS podcasts apps out there).
what do you mean ‘although’, that’s an added benefit!
I liked having both in the same app until I discovered AntennaPod, which is far superior to Spotify’s podcast manager.
I was mostly joking but I’m just so over podcasts. Even when people who I like and follow on YouTube talk about their podcasts my eyes glaze over.
I have so little time and patience for low effort hours long drivel that i find what I’m doing now more worthwhile than listening to a podcast. Not saying all podcasts are like this obviously but that’s my default assumption.
“lacking podcasts” is a plus for most people, I think. But Tidal’s interface is a bit worse for me in one thing: it lacks the “remote control” Spotify has: controlling playback from any device on any device (e.g. playing on the computer and using the phone as a remote) and also the ability to transfer the playback from one device to another - like pausing it on the computer, picking up the phone, connecting it to car and resuming playback.
I use KDE connect for remote controlling, so I never even noticed. But I can see that being an annoying loss.