Official TIDAL HIFI Streaming Issues Thread

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Returning to the metadata problem...

Why Can't Streaming Services Get Classical Music Right? : The Record : NPR

 

Article is spot on. Tidal has the same issues - even using Roon along with it. As mentioned, not only is Classical a niche market but I imagine most hardcore afficianodos skew older demographically so there probably is not much desire to throw a lot of sw manpower behind the problem. Who I feel bad for is the younger generations who may be missing out on some wonderful music - because the applications will not let them explore in an intelligent, systematic way. Typing in "Beethoven" and getting a track from the "baby listens to Classical" CD by the New Tranylvania Symphony Orchestra is not doing the music much service. An example of too many metadata options and lack of classification uniformity taking a bad situation and potentially making it worse.