I like Tidal. Switched from Spotify. Cleaner user interface. Ability to listen with better sound quality. I listen to music more often now. Spotify did have some better playlists. Many of them were user generated though. I didnāt care to listen to podcasts or audiobooks on Spotify. So it wasnāt a loss to me. I am having the issue of Tidal using a ridiculous amount of storage on my phone. I need to dig into why.
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Yess I was thinking about Spotify, I had it once, but I figure no point going back if it couldn't keep me hooked. That all sounds great š excited to try something new - except the storage š¤
Apparently itās a quirk of iOS and listening to atmos sound quality tracks. On your device it will say you have videos downloaded. They need a way to quickly clear the cache. Right now Iām going through and deleting them one by one. Or I could just delete and reinstall the entire app. Itās annoying AF. Canāt believe they havenāt found a workable solution to this yet.
Is this with HiFi or HiFi Plus ?
HiFi
And this happens when you stream and when you download tracks ?
These werenāt downloaded tracks. According to a Reddit thread when you stream atmos tracks iOS stores them as downloaded videos. Tidal on my iPhone got to using 14GB of storage before I was like WTF. I deleted and reinstalled Tidal. Problem solved.
Whoa! Thats huge. Do you know if thereās a way to turn of atmos ?
*turn off
You could probably listen to it on a lower sound quality setting but that defeats the purpose of why I have Tidal. š¤·š¼āāļø
So if I understand correctly, when you set it to High itās always atmos ?
Depends on the track. When you set it to high it will automatically play the highest sound quality available.
Thanks for the explanation! Iām trying it out rn. I like it so far!
Iām kind of addicted to the Daily Discovery playlist. It gets better as you use Tidal. Occasionally thereās an off day. Itās now become a daily routine. Iāve joked with friends sometimes I love it so much itās getting to āHerā levels of affection. So many songs are love songs. So I went through a spell where my Daily Discovery was literally just like a new curated playlist of love songs for me. š«¶š»