TIDAL vs. Spotify - Which is the best music streaming service?

In this video, we’re comparing TIDAL vs. Spotify to see which music streaming service you should subscribe to. We’ll be judging both services based on content, interface and user experience, algorithms, sharing, sound quality, and price.

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TIDAL HiFi Plus vs. Spotify Premium
TIDAL HiFi vs. Spotify Premium
TIDAL HiFi vs. Spotify

00:00 Introduction
00:30 Music libraries
02:07 Interface and user experience
04:22 Music recommendations and sharing
04:43 Live on Tidal
04:55 Spotify Group Sessions
05:48 Sound quality
07:26 Price

[SoundGuys]

Are you Team Tidal? Team Spotify? Neither? Let us know which and why in the comments!

[CaptainCorobo]

Tidal pays artists almost 4 times more per stream than Spotify does, please consider that when subscribing to one of these

[Lekter]

I love to listen to hi-res audio 192 khz 24-bit on my gas station bought earbuds

[TerrestalAnimeDude]

Tidal pays the artists a lot more and you can actually use your playlists to mix with Dj Serato.

[pepton]

This comparison makes it seem as Spotify is vastly superior whereas the 1 point Tidal has probably outweighs all other points by a lot. Sound quality and the ability to play lossless formats is worth way more than shown here.

[Latezen]

Tidal also recently removed the hifi plus and now you get the highest quality audio included in all the plans available, individual for 10, 99. i recently subscribed to it since i do have decent SQ setups in car and home. I was soundcloud user for the longest time but decided to try this out. really happy so far.

[OmarGonzalez-rvhd]

Im switching to Tidal next month, I am done with spotify's price increase

[gustavoosorio]

The music quality is enormously different from Tidal to. Spotify. It is the most important part in terms of music.

[mikesmith-wkvy]

I have Spotify but am probably switching because I have a hifi system and want to get more audio quality to take advantage of it

[wizparrissa]

What spotify messed up on was canceling their third party dj mixing support. I wouldn't have tidal if I wasn't making money doing shows

[lolous-studio]

The Tidal UI got a lot of changes recently that covers the cluter problems.

[AuthenticHD]

Tidal has a lot of DJ player support as well

[coreysmith_]

TIDAL pay the artist more for 100 million stream's Is 1.2 million dollar's for Spotify 100 million stream's Is 500 thousand dollar's TIDAL Is the highest paying streaming platform than any service today

[SwervinSpliffs]

Honestly great job with the video. Subbed. I enjoyed the format of the video and very informative

[citizencro]

I really wish you would show playlist sorting in the interface section. For example, spotify makes it very difficult to auto-sort playlists in a way you want (song release date, plays, etc.), so I was hoping to see if Tidal's playlist sorting is better or just as lackluster.

[jokerquy]

I used senheiser momentum 3 wireless in the past, the quality between apple music and spotify is clear as day. But i just bought a wf-1000xm5 and try tidal hifi plus for the sony 360 stuff. It kinda weird that between spotify and tidal, they sound the same to me on wf-xm5 😅.

[StRosen]

You forgot to mention that Tidal pays over 2x more to artists per listen than Spotify... So that makes the final score obviously 4:2

[podcavepodcast]

Hey! This is really a fantastic video. Have a couple of suggestions. Harley is tremendous. A great presence on camera. I could make a couple of very small tweaks…but really, do not change. Harley, you’re incredible on camera. My other note would be to add the “Tidal” logo and/or “Spotify” logo when you’re displaying a shot of either service on screen. You jump back and forth so often, that the viewer can get a touch confused with which service you’re talking about.

[KuroHebi]

I've been trying out Tidal with a free trial and I must say, I'm a little underwhelmed. Aside from the lossless playback, Tidal doesn't do anything better than Spotify, and some features I use on Spotify all of the time are missing on Tidal, not to mention some tracks aren't available on Tidal. When Spotify introduces Hi-Fi, I'll definitely be making the switch back.

[rsolsjo]

Spotify is the better service, Tidal has the better sound quality (if you're picky about it).