Tidal (music streaming)

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Tidal

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Basic data

developer Aspiro AS
Publishing year October 28, 2014
operating system Microsoft Windows
Apple MacOS , iOS
Android
category Music (music (video) streaming)
License Proprietary
German speaking Yes
www.tidal.com/de

Tidal (also known as TIDALHiFi ) is a music streaming - service , among other things, using a lossless data compression promotes itself. Tidal was founded in 2014 by the Norwegian-Swedish technology company Aspiro AB . After Aspiro was taken over by the rapper Jay-Z in March 2015 , Tidal started a large-scale advertising campaign on social media with the hashtag “#TIDALforAll”. At a press conference on March 16, 2015 it was announced that in addition to Jay-Z 16 other artists were among the shareholders, including Beyoncé , Prince , Rihanna , Kanye West , Daft Punk , Jack White , Madonna , Alicia Keys , Usher , deadmau5 , Nicki Minaj and J. Cole .

When the service opened, there were over 25 million songs and 85,000 music videos available, currently (March 2019) there are more than 60 million songs and 240,000 music videos. In addition, Tidal allows the import of playlists from other streaming providers. Tidal is currently (March 2019) available in 53 different countries, including Germany , Austria , and Switzerland .

reception

When the German edition of Tidal was launched, reviewers praised the significantly better sound quality compared to other streaming services such as Apple Music or Spotify . In the USA, however, it was also criticized that the majority of potential listeners were not in a position to use the acoustic advantages of the new service.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hartmut Gieselmann: Music in the shredder . How streaming services change sound. In: Christian Heise, Ansgar Heise, Christian Persson (eds.): C't . No. 7 . Heise Medien, Hanover March 16, 2019, p. 64–69 ( heise.de [accessed on March 16, 2019]).
  2. ↑ A global music streaming and entertainment platform. TIDAL Music AS, accessed March 16, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Jay Z promotes 'artist-owned' music streaming brand
  4. ↑ About Us ( Memento of the original from November 16, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / news.cision.com
  5. ↑ Which countries is TIDAL available? . TIDAL Music AS. Retrieved March 19, 2019.
  6. ↑ Apple Music is McDonald's for the ears , Die Welt from June 20, 2015
  7. ↑ Tidal briefly presented to FAZ.NET from July 14, 2015
  8. ↑ 3 reasons why Jay Z's new Tidal streaming service is stupid , USA Today of March 30, 2015