![]() – screenshot of TIDAL’s future subscription tiers This free plan will be available in the United States first and will be gradually implemented in the 61 other countries in which TIDAL is established. ![]() On the premium payments’ side, some changes are coming as well : its original “HiFi” plan is to be split in two formulas. Its free subscription, however, won’t benefit from that higher quality audio (encrypted at 160 kbps, higher all the same than that of Spotify which is 128 kbps in free version). It is important to state that TIDAL is also mostly known for offering its listeners a much higher audio quality than that of Spotify, Deezer or Apple Music for example. The same goes for offline listening, reading lyrics in real time or downloading your favorite songs : these features will only be unlocked if you switch to a paid plan. The number of “skips” should however be unlimited on a computer. Why go for a paid subscription if you can have access to everything for free (almost) without ads ? Well, free users won’t have access to all of TIDAL’s features : if you use TIDAL on mobile, you will only be able to “skip” tracks only six times per hour. In fact, some short ads encouraging the user to switch to paid plans will be heard from time to time. TIDAL, on its end, will go ad-free even for the free formula, at least for now. The free subscription, which is sometimes call the “freemium” model in Europe, gives the user access to the entire catalog of the platform (which amounts to several tens of millions of tracks), but they get to listen to some ads regularly between tracks. ![]() Since launch, TIDAL had never opted for what Spotify and Deezer have been doing for years : that of offering their users to access their services for free, on top of their paid subscription. – screenshot showcasing TIDAL’s platform You can now use TIDAL for free… in the USA only (for now). When it comes to TIDAL’s recent announcements, they have stated that they are about to introduce a free subscription – a first for TIDAL – but also change the way they redistribute royalties to the artists present on their platform, and even offer multiple levels of paid subscription. Well, that may change in the near future ! Do you remember SoundCloud’s latest announcements, and more specifically when they announced earlier this year that they are switching to a “user-centric”, direct-to-fan royalty payment model, which is something that the French platform Deezer has been advocating for for several years ? Well, TIDAL is about to take the same decision, and more. TIDAL is a popular streaming platform in the United States but it does struggle to attract users elsewhere in the world. ![]()
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