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In Reply to: RE: I moved to Tidal today from Spotify posted by PaulN on December 18, 2014 at 19:09:40
But I am really disappointed with the content in TIDAL thus far. The search function via ickstream needs a lot of work as well.
Until things change, I will be keeping Spotify, which has the TRIODE Pluggin, which is great. The Spotify Sound Quality is as good as MOG was, and is satisfactory.
TIDAL needs some work on its library and features for me to be a permanent subscriber. I'll be cancelling in the next couple months.Cut-Throat
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It sometime returns only 30 'albums' for a given query. For example, when 'Bruckner' is entered in the TIDAL search box 30 albums show up.
When 'Bruckner' is entered in the QOBUZ search box you will see over 800 'albums' come up (some duplicates, granted).
Enter 'Bruckner Jochum' in TIDAL, you get 23 returns and when you enter 'Bruckner Barenboim' up pops 23 more, so perhaps there are a few hundred Bruckner titles on TIDAL, if you know how to find them.
The library is limited. The search has problems no doubt, as I mentioned. But it is lacking a lot of what I listen to. Maybe the classical is fine.
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Classical is spoty. Many albums I bring up are grayed out which means they don't have clearance to stream them. I like the sound but need to try different searches to see if I can get what I want
Alan
Not as great of a catalog as QOBUZ or even Spotify or MOG used to have and VERY hard to figure out how to find things.
Do like the having a shot at the Chandos catalog again though. ;-)
Every version of ultra-lounge christmas cocktails and then some. Easily 20+ albums of swinging, lounge, hipster holidays. Which is just what the Dr. ordered tonight with some icy cold drinks...
I suspect that the ickstream developers are working hard behind the scenes now to build a better search functionality. It may take a few months to have a more granular search ability, but the service is still in beta. They also apparently had to rebuild a huge library for the US due to licensing restrictions and som of the WiMP titles are not yet entered. Again, public beta. If they offered a radio style playlist as good as Pandora's I'd quit Pandora One today.
I agree with you in principle, but the Triode plugin uses a proxy that would not allow me to use the Inguz plugin with RC filters and MOG did not, so I could use it. Tidal streams in FLAC, so as far as I can tell, it will work with Inguz. I am just dipping my toes into dedicated player software with Purevinyl, but I love the ease of use of the squeezeboxes. So for casual listening I will continue to use LMS. So for me that was the deal-killer on Spotify. And the standard plugin has an equivalent search function to the current ickstream. So the decision for me was pretty easy. I would have stayed with MOG if I could have.
I liked MOG as well. Tell me more about Inguz.... Does this function like Tone Controls ?
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Yes. It has a multi-band parametric EQ that you can set the number of bands for, and provides a convolution engine for RC or speaker correction filters in .wav format. You can use freeware to generate filters or buy a package as I did from acourate. Although, you can just use the EQ by installing inguz. The plugin also supports ambisonic decoding. It is a brilliant bit of coding. Have it running on a 7.9 nightly from a month or so ago which also has DSD transcoding now, so you can play .dsf and .dff files with on-the-fly conversion.
I got Inguz installed on my Win 7 Desktop in LMS, but LMS keeps saying "Get Silverlight" on the LMS screen. Which I have done. I can't seem to get the display that I see on the Inguz Website. Here http://inguzaudio.com/usage/plugin/Also, in searching the NET, it seems that no one is currently supporting this pluggin for quite awhile.... Am I correct?
Cut-Throat
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Hugh stopped supporting it awhile back, but has added some fixes and compatibility features developed by others. Frankly, there isn't really anything to support. The code is clean and it works, once you get the install working correctly. There is a bug in the code for a couple of the html items. I know it can be a little frustrating, but it is worth the effort.Once thing you can try is to restart the LMS twice. I managed to get it working seamlessly under XP on my old laptop with LMS 7.8. Question: Are you using IE or another browser? I seem to recall that I did get it working under Firefox with some effort and I will try to remember what the key was, but the silverlight problem was known. You can try using IE, which as I recall worked with no problems immediately.
A lot of wisdom in the following thread to help you get up to speed:
Look for Phil Leigh's posts starting at post #85.
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