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Posted 15 April 2018
3 months TIDAL Hi-Res streaming music service worth £19.99 per month for free via Sennheiser CapTune app @ Google Play Store and Apple App Store
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Shortcut without installing CapTune - go straight to tidal.com/cap…e90
I posted this a couple of times last year. I've checked again and it's still working.
Install Sennheiser CapTune from your app store. Works on both Apple and Android
Click settings
then TIDAL
click Tap to Login then Sign up to TIDAL
You can cancel straight away and still use the service to the end of the 3 months.
Some users ( ) have also reported having consecutive subscriptions by signing up again with new details.
If you have limited data, watch out when streaming as some tracks can be up to 60mb each!
Shortcut without installing CapTune - go straight to tidal.com/cap…e90
I posted this a couple of times last year. I've checked again and it's still working.
Install Sennheiser CapTune from your app store. Works on both Apple and Android
Click settings
then TIDALclick Tap to Login then Sign up to TIDALYou can cancel straight away and still use the service to the end of the 3 months.
Some users ( ) have also reported having consecutive subscriptions by signing up again with new details.
If you have limited data, watch out when streaming as some tracks can be up to 60mb each!
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Edited by miffyl, 16 April 2018
75 Comments
sorted byYou don't actually pay £20 per month.
It's higher quality than Spotify etc.
From a TechRadar review:
It streams music in the form of 16bit, 44.1kHz FLAC files with a bitrate of 1411kbps. And I can tell you now, it's brilliant.
For the uninitiated, FLAC is the format of choice for many people who want to listen to music files without having to put up with lossy formats like MP3.
When you compress a music track into an MP3, you have to shave off a lot of detail in order to achieve that miniature file size. Other formats like OGG (as used by Spotify) do a highly commendable job of limiting that shaving mostly to parts of the audio that might be considered 'inaudible'.
The truth is that all compression formats are a compromise, a victory for convenience over sound quality.
FLAC tracks are also compressed but in a totally different way. They're a lot more like a zipped file, so when they're played back, they can be decompressed to their original glory without any loss of fidelity.
Thus, while a CD track might take up anywhere between 60 and 100MB, a FLAC file will be more like 30 to 50MB. MP3s encoded at the maximum bitrate of 320kbps are typically only about 5-10MB in size, and there's no way to get back the information you threw away during compression. That's why MP3 is described as a lossy format while FLAC is not.
The upshot of this is that FLAC is the perfect format for delivering CD-quality music down an internet pipe.
Reference?
Using high end consumer sound reproduction kit it’s been proven on several occasions that even sound professionals are not able to distinguish 320kbps MP3 version of their own tracks from lossless audio version.
Even if that's not true, and I do have some doubts about it, what is certain is that at least 99% of people do not have the audio equipment to take advantage of this. FLAC is for archival purposes, not for streaming.
Yes, there is a difference. The bass seems to be tighter and cleaner. Highs and mids I could not tell much of a difference. I'm an average consumer who likes good sound quality but certainly not an audiophile. I assume a wired setup at home with dedicated amp and good quality headphones/speakers will get the most out of Tidal.
However, even on strong WiFi signal at home and EE's 4G max plan it struggled streaming lossless files (too much buffering required). The biggest issue were downloaded files on the app, it even struggled to playback downloaded files at times.
At £19.99 per month, no thanks. Free for 3 months, why not.
Recommend you read 'Perfecting Sound Forever' by Greg Milner. He struggled to tell the difference between a CD and MP3 in a blind listening test.
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Worked for me
You can uninstall CapTune after signing up. Just use Tidal.
go.tidal.com/acc…ick
I've given the three month Tidal trial a go (thank you, heat added!) Had to log onto the browser Tidal to cancel as I couldn't find it in the android app.
Using a Pixel XL and Anker Soundbuds Slim+ (aptx HD) I couldn't tell the difference between the same song played on Spotify and Tidal.
This is how I stream my music 90% of the time.
Awesome deal for what it is, but I can't hear the difference using my equipment and so I'll stick with Spotify.
No, Suzanne Vega actually
I did look at your post but decided to repost this on the premise that not everyone will know how or want to use a VPN. This offers the same but in (my opinion) in easier method, albeit for a shorter period but it can be repeated.
Also, this is Hi-Fi, not Premium. (edited)
A book I recommended several times on these kind of threads. It stopped a 30 year hi-fi obsession.
I have some quite high end kit at home and it's pretty tricky to tell any difference between 320kbps and FLAC. If you're using it on a a phone and streaming over Bluetooth, then your bit rate is capped at 330kbps by apt-x anyway. Unless you're using Sony cans with Oreo when you have LDAC which in theory takes your transmission bit rate up to 990kbps.
HRT II Streamer / Lehmann Black Cube Clone and H-Fi Man 400i. Still very hard to reliably pick lossless vs 320kbps in a blind test.
So,yeah, agree with you fully.
If your PC is sending audio over USB to the DAC, it's all fine. Maybe as you say Ogg isn't being supported properly.
What Spotify won't do, annoyingly, is set the app to use WASAPI, instead if you are using a browser, the signal is going thru all manner of Windows layers before getting to the DAC and is thus, not a true bitstream. There's FIDELIFY which is a Spotify client that improves on this but it's not very user friendly and no longer supported.
J River is king of media playback IME. WASAPI and FLAC with correct sample and bit depths.
Have fun.
3 months free trial
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What political agenda is that then? Do enlighten the rest of us who thought they were just streaming services
What I want to point out is if you can barely hear the differences because of your ears or the gears you have, simply just enjoy what you have, MP3 isn’t by any means bad at all.
However, If you don’t mind to pay more, there is nothing wrong with flac or even SACD too, as long as you enjoy.
I'm probably the most fussy person I know when it comes to music and equipment. If Shure SE535's Ltd and B&W PX headphones on a quad dac player aren't enough then I guess flacs are even more pointless than I already thought they were.
It's simply a waste of money to most people and I encourage them to try the online tests before spending their money. If they can't spot the difference side by side then there's absolutely no chance they will truly tell the difference in real use.
There comes a point when sound quality is so good that audiophiles are playing spot the difference for the sake of it instead of enjoying the music.
Mine shows hifi when I play through it.
Snake audio
Massive fan of FLAC audio.
I used decent studio monitors so actually can hear a difference in sound. Thanks op
Much appreciated thank you
Bear in mind that's Premium, not Hi-Fi.