When comparing TIDAL vs Pulsar Music Player, the Slant community recommends Pulsar Music Player for most people. In the question“What are the best audio players for Android?” Pulsar Music Player is ranked 13th while TIDAL is ranked 17th. The most important reason people chose Pulsar Music Player is:
The developers earn money through a premium version with extra non-essential features.
Specs
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Pros
Pro Amazing quality
The Tidal music streaming service has a maximum streaming quality of 1,411Kbps bit rate with FLAC-formatted lossless files. This is quite an upgrade compared to most music streaming services, which go at about 320Kbps bit rate.
Pro Pays artists more
As of March 2018, TIDAL pays the artists 2/3 more than Apple Music and 3 times more than Spotify, for an equivalent catalog and subscription price. (40M songs on TIDAL and Apple Music vs. 30M on Spotify, $9.99/mo for all 3). Napster is the only service that pays the artists more than TIDAL.
Pro Discounted student subscription
Tidal offers a 50% discount on monthly subscriptions for students with a valid university email account.
Pro Awsome desktop app
Pro Built-in audio search
The Tidal music streaming service mobile app has a built-in audio search, similar to Shazaam and Soundhound.
Pro Military/veteran discount a BIG plus
Pro Get one-month free Hi-Fi (FLAC, 24-bit music)
Almost all if not most songs are 24-bit FLAC files, "Master" is an ever higher quality
Pro Ad-Free
The developers earn money through a premium version with extra non-essential features.
Pro Automatic Album Art Downloads
Automatically downloads missing album images.
Pro Material Design
The app abides by Google's latest design principles.
Pro Notification Bar Control
You can control audio playback from the notification bar and lock screen.
Cons
Con Songs may take some time to load
the Tidal music streaming service may take up to 10 seconds of buffering to load and play a song, sometimes even stopping a song mid-way to buffer.
Con No free tier
The Tidal music streaming service has no free tier available. Only a 7-day trial. While the trial is helpful for learning what the service has to offer, it may not allow for a complete picture due to the time limit.
Con Offline isn’t offline and mobile data is consumed in one song
Con Hi-FI Can be expensive for some
Con Buggy
Certain songs cause the app to play the next song in the playlist prematurely.