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I found this post on Audiogon and it provides more information
"According to Ben Sisario of The New York Times, Apple is not buying Tidal. Seeing as Sisario covers streaming, and more, for the Times, I imagine his highly-placed sources are, well, highly placed. Time will tel". Please see the link below for more informtion:
http://www.audiostream.com/content/apple-not-acquiring-tidal#JXAe8ToWa7G7vwbt.97
I hope that Apple does not buy Tidal Streaming. I think their service is terrific and the sound quality is outstanding.
Hearing this makes me glad I didn't purchase a lifetime Roon subscription. For me one of the primary reasons for using Roon is the excellent integration of my library with Tidal. Without that Roon's value, at least to me, declines considerably.
I'm still on my 60-day Roon trial via special co-marketing offer included in the box when I bought my AQ Jitterbug. I find Roon to be worth while even w/o Tidal but I understand the added value of Tidal integration.
I -may- subscribe to Roon for 1 Year along with an open ended month-to-month on Tidal and see what happens.
That sounds like a smart approach. Roon would still have value for me without the Tidal integration but at the same expense? I don't know. Maybe if my own library were substantially larger I might feel differently. But at just under 10K tracks having integrated access to a much larger library is really important.
as Cut-Throat said appropriately below,
MOG was sold to beats, then apple, now it is lost.
I don't believe Apple wants another service, they want to gobble it up for breakfast. Just IMHO.
They couldn't compete so they bought us! And disappeared us!
LOL! I cancelled Tidal. I like Deezer Elite better, but I still have Tidal for a few months since I paid 6 months in advance. I thought they were going to stream MQA however it seems that the owners will be filthy rich even more once more over when they sell it.
It will just show how full of shit the 'artist owned' mission was for Tidal.What does "artist-owned" mean?
Because TIDAL is artist-owned it means that the artists finally have a say in what they can deliver to fans. TIDAL has the unique ability to now bring experiences to fans that the artists have always wanted to create.
"Artist-owned" also means that the artists can work together to begin to build a new model, one that helps create a new and sustainable model for the future. Fewer and fewer bands are able to make a living and survive in the current climate. TIDAL is an alternative built to help correct that, and we hope that others follow suit. Our goal is to build a model that serves the greater good of music and artists.
B.S. !! The end goal was to sellout and make the big bucks! ;-)
Check out the Tidal love fest video when Tidal was launched.
Edits: 07/01/16
Do you use Tidal with the Tidal App on Mac? I haven't signed up for the trial but I was just screwing around the Tidal app on my Mac and thought the interface wasn't bad. Of course I only messed with it for a few minutes and hope to dive deeper into it after the holiday.
Where am I going with this? I'm wondering if there's any advantage of using Roon with Tidal, or just going straight Tidal.
I don't care if Apple buys Tidal so long as they keep the uncompressed streaming.
" I don't care if Apple buys Tidal so long as they keep the uncompressed streaming."
If this comes off it will, no doubt, behave in the same manner as most takeovers- the dominant service becomes the only service.
It is a very expensive option for a company to run two distinct operations that offer substitutional services (as the majority of people would see it, superior SQ is not a significant benefit for the mass market). So Apple will want to migrate Apple Music users to Tidal or Tidal users to Apple Music. Which way round do you think it would be?
but one can hope. ;-)I may still play around with Tidal on an open ended monthly plan, rather then buying 6 mos at a discount.
Edits: 07/02/16
I use the tidal app on my phone, but the Roon interface is better for the desktop. I had some epic listening sessions last weekend with the wife out-of-town, and had a buddy over too. We listened to a mix of Roonified Tidal and vinyl along with a few from my collection of hirez files. My original MoFi Dark Side of the Moon, which has been played maybe 20 times, was the best thing all night.I have been disappointed a few times by Tidal lacking some titles I wanted to listen to. I pulled up Aldo Nova and a rare GRP release by Billy Cobham, but Billy Thorpe's Children of the Sun was absent. It is still the best sounding service. Use Roon with HQPlayer and there's no going back...
Edits: 06/30/16
Paul, I have a variety of file types mostly AIFF and some ALAC. I know that HQPlayer does not support ALAC but when used in conjunction with Roon, will it 'pass' ALAC. In other words if I'm in shuffle mode and an ALAC file is chosen, will the Roon/HQPlayer combo halt, crash, or will the ALAC file still play via Roon (w/o HQPlayer processing of course)?
Yes, Roon handles most file types and passes them to HQP as PCM, so there are no problems with playback. Most of my library is ALAC with a few .dsf files and a few FLAC files. That is the real advantage of Roon into HQP: it is a great front end for all these files types including ALAC.
My understanding of Roon + HQPlayer may have been 'backwards'. So it is Roon that is passing the PCM to HQP, not HQP processing the file then passing it to Roon ?
If what you say is true, that's encouraging as I won't have to bulk convert my ALAC to FLAC.
Roon is the front end, HQPlayer is an endpoint. It's a software endpoint, but acts as hardware endpoint. Roon is a media management application although it does have an audio processing core. You need to set up HQPlayer with your DAC or another endpoint for playback. One of the cool things Roon does is to mimic LMS, so you can have a bunch of squeezeboxen and even synch them for background use.
Excellent. Thanks for clearing that up.
Yes, the OS-X app is fine.
Search is not so good for classical. QOBUZ and ClassicsOnlineHD are both better for classical.
Still, would hate to lose TIDAL.
I remember MOG, which I liked. Beats bought it, then Apple..... Where is it? .... Must be Lost.
Cut-Throat
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