TIDAL vs Musicolet Music Player

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.

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.

Tidal offers a 50% discount on monthly subscriptions for students with a valid university email account.

The Tidal music streaming service mobile app has a built-in audio search, similar to Shazaam and Soundhound.

Almost all if not most songs are 24-bit FLAC files, "Master" is an ever higher quality

You can optionally support the developer and pay for pro features, but the free version isn't missing any core features.

Intuitive options to decide what to do when song or "queue" ends.

Supports many audio formats natively, as well as all formats supported by the system decoder of the Android device in use.

The app doesn't include the Internet permission, so no user data can be sent to the app author.

You can multi-select songs to add to a playlist, and you can use your finger to drag one or multiple songs to the desired position in the playlist, for example. There is also a command to insert a selection of songs into the current playlist after the current song.

Also allows saving unlimited playlists for later use, and playlists can be exported as external .m3u files.