Jay Z Reveals Plans for Tidal, a Streaming Music Service

Post by 0x0 » Tue, Mar 31, 2015, 1:24 AM UTC

DigitalSea wrote: post #17

thezilch wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Even if FLAC was required for "high-fidelity" -- it's not -- a 20mb track and assuming the track is at a super short length of 60 seconds is going at ~341kbps. YouTube is already pumping bits faster than that at 360p [0], so that really doesn't seem like a hard part of the equation, and surely the market for this is not looking to capture an audience smaller than YouTube's. [0] https://support.google.com/youtube/answ…

I was just using FLAC as a comparison for lossless considering when someone thinks of lossless audio they will mostly think of FLAC. Of course it goes deeper than that. I think the hard part of the equation is still definitely dealing with bandwidth and speed limitations though. I have issues streaming Youtube video even more so than I do HQ Spotify tracks (and it is a problem more common in Australia particularly th…

Post by baddox » Tue, Mar 31, 2015, 1:29 AM UTC

freehunter wrote: post #10

Here's the problem: I don't want another music service. I want all my favorite artists on one music service. There is literally no reason for them to not be other than various forms of greed. Garth Brooks created his own music streaming service because the people behind the album don't get enough attention. Taylor Swift doesn't put her music on Spotify because she can make more money on iTunes. Jay Z creates a stream…

Post by ElectricFeel » Tue, Mar 31, 2015, 1:31 AM UTC

Post by jfb » Tue, Mar 31, 2015, 1:34 AM UTC

nothrabannosir wrote: post #21

freehunter wrote: post #10

Here's the problem: I don't want another music service. I want all my favorite artists on one music service. There is literally no reason for them to not be other than various forms of greed. Garth Brooks created his own music streaming service because the people behind the album don't get enough attention. Taylor Swift doesn't put her music on Spotify because she can make more money on iTunes. Jay Z creates a stream…

Competition = good, one music service to rule them all = bad. Good on Tailor Swift for keeping Spotify on their toes. Good on you for choosing Spotify and not Tidal. Let a thousand musical flowers bloom, and may they forever compete for attention of the bees, giving us more colors and extravagance as time progresses. Please keep making alternative music services and please keep giving us more choice, better quality a…

Post by alexophile » Tue, Mar 31, 2015, 1:40 AM UTC

rodgerd wrote: post #7

deeviant wrote: post #5

“This is a platform that’s owned by artists,” - Jay Z I think he meant, "This is a platform owned by established, rich, and ageing artists, whose resolve to assist up-and-comers should rightfully be questioned." Not to say this can be any worse then something like Spotify, which already trounces over the independents, but I hardly think this is a likely group to bring democracy and creativity back to the musical scen…

> I think he meant, "This is a platform owned by established, rich, and ageing artists, whose resolve to assist up-and-comers should rightfully be questioned." An actual artist-owned platform (a co-operative model where artists = shareholders) would actually be pretty awesome.