Is the music quality on Tidal way better like I’ve heard?
Because it’s close enough in price I’m wondering if YT Music is worth it, as it comes with YT Premium as well.
I just use a net to catch things. If you know what I’m talking about, you know darn well I’m not for either DRM.
Tidal is higher quality and doesn’t give money directly to Google
Never heard of Tidal. Maybe I’ll check it out but I do only listen via phone speaker and cheap earbuds so probably just stick to adblocked YTM.
Tidal uses FLAC codec which is vastly superior to YTM’s AAC. YTM takes the lead in quantity of content with all sorts of remixes and other music being uploaded daily. I would say it will all depend on what kind of equipment you are going to use to listen to the music on and if it will allow you to hear the difference in the two services offerings.
If you’re mainly using Bluetooth earbuds or other cheaper speakers there likely won’t be that much of a difference in perceived sound quality.
Tidal uses a higher quality codec than Youtube. Personally, I can’t hear the difference, but I also have nearly half a century of accumulated hearing damage. YMMV.
Both YT music and Tidal offer a trial period, you could listen to some examples yourself since you’re the only person that can determine if the differences in sound quality are anything that you notice or care about.
I stick with YT Music simply because I consume so much YT. That said, if YT Premium was not part of the deal, then I’d most likely go Tidal due to sound quality but also because YT Music has an annoying habit of serving up wrong versions of songs, including playing the audio track of the songs music video instead of the album track itself, or replacing my explicit lyrics version with a radio edit one.
YTM for me since it has a vast amount of different versions and remixes of songs that aren’t elsewhere. Most can be accessed by regular YouTube but still very convenient for it’s discovery features. Tidal does win for audio quality
