It also has a £250 ($250, AU$300) annual subscription called Studio Sublime that combines hi-res streaming with discounts on 24-bit download purchases.įirst things first, should you care about hi-res streaming? High-resolution (often shortened to 'hi-res') audio is a term used to describe music files that have a higher sampling frequency and/or bit depth than that of CD-quality, which is specified at 16-bit/44.1kHz. Qobuz, which was actually first to the hi-res streaming game (except in Australia, where it only launched in 2021) is still kicking about with a £15 ($15 and now, AU$25) per month hi-res service. So, is Tidal HiFi Plus the answer? It's certainly one answer, but there are other options.
More recently, Tidal actually split its membership options into HiFi (with a resolution cap of 1411kbps, aka CD-quality streams) and HiFi Plus, offering up to 9216kbps along with Dolby Atmos and Sony 360 Reality support, for the top-tier £20 fee. Since January 2017, its £20 ($20, AU$24) per month tier has granted access to hi-res (typically 24-bit/96kHz) Tidal Master streams, encoded using MQA (Master Quality Authenticated) technology. It is our favourite service, too, and holder of a 2021 What Hi-Fi? Award in the music streaming service category. Unlike Spotify and Deezer here, which allows free listening experience but would suffer from advertisements that insert themselves at any given time.ĭespite the massive security concerns of the data collected by these streaming apps (as they said that music could be a profile for a person as it is an identity), people are celebrating music by knowing what they have listened to for every end of the year.Tidal is perhaps the most established in this realm. 2021 Music Year-In-Review: Apple Music, Spotify, and Deezer Know Yoursįirst off, this year-in-review would work despite having only a free subscription to any of these websites, but Apple Music is an exception as while it offers a free trial, it is a paid service throughout. Almost all subscription platforms are known for their 2021 Music Year-In-Review, focusing on what a person has listened to and how much data was collected from them with Apple Music, Spotify, and Deezer for this year's ultimate guide.
2021 has been a long year for the pandemic, but when looking back, it looks like a fast year that has already gone by, with all the listening experience that brought people to streaming websites.
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