Tidal has officially rolled out a new hi-res streaming plan today (April 10), combining its lossless audio and hi-res tiers into one new Individual plan for $10.99 / £10.99 / AU$12.99 per month. That's good news for hi-res music streaming fans like myself and cuts the monthly subscription price for access to Tidal's hi-res music content to the same price as Apple Music.
Tidal's HiFi and HiFi Plus subscription plans no longer exist — HiFi Plus subscribers will switch to the new plan automatically.
Who owns TIDAL?
Tidal is currently majority owned by Block Inc., which is helmed by Jack Dorsey and Jim McKelvey. Jay-Z is currently on the board of directors.
Does TIDAL offer classical music?
Yes. TIDAL’s music library has Puccino, Beethoven, Mozart, Vivaldi, and more works.
Doesn't Spotify have a HiFi version?
In 2021, Spotify announced an upcoming HiFi tier, but as of November 2024, it has yet to roll out. We have not heard any update from Spotify about its future HiFi plans.
Apologies if this post is not appropriate for the sub but figured some people might be interested to hear - I just received an email from Tidal saying their Hifi and Hifi plus subscriptions are merging and the new price is going to be $10.99 starting in April (down from $21 ish for Hifi plus).
Sharing only because I switched recently from Spotify and have been following the forever rumors of lossless Spotify streaming, etc. new price makes it an even more compelling offering imo.
(Not affiliated in any way except as a customer - just figured it might help some people deciding on their services)
Currently subscribed to Spotify Duo (15.99AU$) and thinking to switch to Tidal Hifi (17.99AU$). The Tidal Hifi+ family plan jumps to 35.99AU$ which is a big increase in price, I'm aware you get MQA and Dolby Atmos (not keen on Atmos music), is the price difference worth it?
Tidal, who now has HiFi FLAC, will soon no longer have two different tiers for hifi audio. It will all be one subscription, at a cost of $10.99, called I think just Tidal and you'll get everything that Tidal HiFi Plus has to offer. Yes, that's up to 24bit 196kHz audio, HiFi FLAC, Sony 360 reality audio, Dolby Atmos, listen and play music live with others, listen offline, ect..
My source? Tidal sent out a message through their Tidal app telling it's subscribers about the change. It said it started April 10th for me.
I'm very excited. Thanks to competition from Apple Music and Amazon Music who have subscriptions with these features at about that price or lower, it's making Tidal follow suit.
I subscribed to Tidal long ago because of how nice the App was and how it had high quality audio. They kept updating things and making them better. I tried all the others. Amazon Music, Qobuz, heck I had Zune/Xbox Music/Groove cuz it was the first streaming service I think. I really like Qobuz but they lacked all my music. Amazon app is not that good. I choose Tidal for the quality audio and nice app where it had all, or almost all my music at the time and has music videos. I kept with it Cuz it kept getting better. More music, better app, adding HiFi FLAC. 16 bit 96kHz has been FLAC I think since it's start or very long time, but higher then that was HQA. Then they added FLAC I think early 2023 or maybe 2022 to their higher teired audio. Now, I get to get all the HiFi Plus features for $10.99.