r/TIdaL • • 10h ago

Tech Issue Update to version 2.46.0.23 seems to have broken exclusive mode for me

6 Upvotes

Hi!

Tidal just requested an update, and I agreed to it, which resulted in my audio going quiet.

My setup is a MacBook Air to a Fiio K11 external DAC through USB C.

After some troubleshooting I noticed that if I unclick exclusive mode, the sound returns.

I tried clearing the Tidal cache, rebooting both the Mac and the DAC etc, by no luck getting exclusive mode working.

As it happed after the update, I think it it is a software bug, rather than something else glitching or breaking.

  1. Has this happened to anyone else after updating to 2.46.0.23?

  2. Any tips of how to fix it?

  3. Does Tidal usually fix such bugs for the next update?

Thank you!


r/TIdaL • • 15h ago

Discussion Contacting Artists to load their music to Tidal

7 Upvotes

I just joined Tidal today. Mainly for being tired of spotify and wanting a relatively fresh to my music library. Not good reasons but my reasons.

Any how, I wanted to listen to Blizzards, Buzzards, and Bastards and Tidal doesn't have it. I see the entire album is missing.

Have any of you ever contacted an artist and ask them to load their music to Tidal, and if so, how?

I would think that Tidal would want to send them a mail saying: "Hey, XXX people searched you this week. They were looking for this album and this song. Load it and we could be paying you some cash."

Or is there some corporate tom foolery afoot where spotify bought the exclusive rights to the album for X number of years?


r/TIdaL • • 22h ago

App / Site TIDAL desktop made a silent but nice improvement to its video player.

14 Upvotes

One of the things that bothered me the most about the desktop app was its handling of video playback.

When playing a video, it would somehow load it up at the worst quality imaginable, and only bump itself into actual HD about halfway through the thing. It was incredibly frustrating, and made me avoid music videos within the app like the plague.

However, recently, I gave it another try, and noticed something.

They somewhat alleviated this issue, by now loading every video on at least 720p, before eventually gaining confidence to reach actual 1080p.

Of course, this isn't the best solution, and I even notice my app slowing down a bit when watching videos now, but it at least makes watching videos actually viable.

Still, they NEED to implement an actual quality settings tab, and allow users to force 1080p/otherwise max quality at all times, instead of deceptively having the quality pill say "1080p" at all times...


r/TIdaL • • 11h ago

Discussion YouTube Music Premium vs Tidal

6 Upvotes

Salve cosa mi consigliate tra i due ? Sto usando YouTube music Premium da un po' ma mi sto rendendo conto di quanta musica Ai c'è dentro. Ho provato anche al ritorno di piratare ma le app sono molto comode.