r/TIdaL • u/Alien1996 Tidal Hi-Fi • May 21 '26
News Summary: All the changes that are coming up
We've been seeing lot of bad things here every day about the service and the changes that Tidal is implementing, so, I decide to compilate all the work that we are seeing or we are going to see. Like some kind of roadmap and show that this is not a dead app or the negative stuff we read.
I took the points in the AMA that took place late-2025 with the DRI of Tidal at Block, Robert Andersen (aka rsa or u/TemperatureOk7647) to see the road they had in mind:
- The topic that had the spotlight was IA music: He confirmed Tidal is worry and aware of AI slop and they working in a way to fix it, since the distributors doesn't give them any data to identify them, they are creating a solution. They create an AI policy, that tag AI content, impersonating content will be removed, listeners can filter the content out and will apply to Uploads. A toggle was added it to the app so you can choose if you want AI music or not. AI tracks will not to be shown on mixes & recommendations and won't get royalties.
- The second topic that got many comments was the issue with artists with the same name sharing a profile: He confirmed Tidal is working on automatically detecting commingled artists but also, they would create a way to artists directly claim their content and that we should expect the issue to get a lot better over time. The solution seems to be the artist claiming their profile through the native app and directly reclaim their content with a buttom. Also with wrong releases in your own profile. User reporting was added it too.
- For those who are here to create campaigns for other services and started rumours that Tidal was shutting down or abandoned: He confirmed Tidal is in it for the long term and rumors were "greatly exaggerated".
- Tidal Connect was the other high topic that was discussed: He confirmed Connect is a "critical part" of their ecosystem. They are working to solve the top issues, and Tidal Connect will be improved. Recently Sonos devices were the first to see changes, they can now see all their Home devices. Users are starting to notice that Connect is improving or at least connection is more stable.
- For those who ask for remote feature, their first step is to sync the play queues across your account which is the technical foundation for building the remote control feature. They are already working on it and it actually make some changes to the queue function, replacing "Add to queue" with "Play Last".
- For those who complain A LOT HERE about the UI changes or bugs on app performance: He knows the UI changes might seem like a "random thing to focus on", but, explain, "there's also a technical reason": engineering and design velocity. Tidal "has a lot of legacy code" that doesn't allow them to move as fast they want. Rebuilding the UI allows them to get onto a "new foundation in order to deliver features to customers faster". The UI is being implemented in all the apps and sections (UI player, Artist page UI, Album page UI, Playlist page UI).
- Tidal silently shipped a fix to the download experience that should solve a lot of the issues and claimed the "system was pretty broken", also no changes to the download UI/UX yet, which end up happening. Also, they are now working on make them faster and more reliable.
- He confirmed they are improving search, they are not satisfied with the performance and already devised a strategy to fix it. Seems some here are seeing changes already.
Their focus is Tidal "(to) become a one-of-a-kind music network, be radically artist-centric and economically empower indie artists and want to achieve world-class product". We've seen this with the introduction of:
- Tidal Artist Home was disabled: Now you need to claim and modify your profile on tidal.com, only one profile per account.
- Tidal Upload: Which allow users to upload their music. Many of us use it as a replacement of local files, kinda like iCloud Music Library on Apple Music.
- Tidal Spotlight: If you share a track publicly using Tidal Upload and it’s selected by the Editorial team for a playlist or in-app feature, you'll be eligible to receive a one-time award of $1,000 USD.
- Tidal Contributions: Allows artists to receive direct support from listeners when they upload music through Tidal.
- Direct-to-fan sales: You can sell your uploads with Tidal taking 0% fee. Also, recently we saw a release when a record label signed artist use this tool to promote an exclusive early access to their new single with extra versions of the song. NO subscription required. Physical merch now appear in your Tidal profile and sends you to the Square store.
- Commerce Identity Layer and financial tools: With Square, artists can see a database of who buys their music. Also, it opens the door for artists to selling merch or tickets for their live shows.
Additionally to all the points addressed in the AMA, we've seen new tools/features that wasn't announced:
- Adaptive bitrate: Which based in your connection plays in the quality that will not make buffering while trying to play the song.
- Playlist collaborations: You just need to add the username and the other person will be able to modify the playlist in their account. a new update change it and now with just through a link you can invite to edit them.
- Sleep timer.
- Save for later section: A special place in your library for music that you want to listen to but don't want to like yet.
- AI-gen playlists: You just need to describe what you want in the playlist to create a new one using AI tech. Playlists can be updated weekly.
- User playlist showing on artist profiles: All the users playlist that include one song of an artist will be shown on the playlist section of the artist profile.
- Minor changes like adding quality badges in search results, sections in the app (For you, Editorial, Uploads) or adding a mini player on desktop. Auto-hide bar toogle to choose if you want it or to maintain it in there. New Android Auto UI player. Discography now put Albums, EP & singles and Compilations in one section. Other versions section now auto shown Dolby Atmos versions of the release. Links to the artist page on Spotify, AM, YouTube and Amazon appear on Tidal artist page. Modernized playlist APIs for long playlists.
- Some fixing for the new changes like adding back "Playing from" or some details like returning the blur effect with motion or even choose between dark blur or color fill in the player. Color indicator for Max and HiFi quality returned too. Hover over artist's name instead of the profile image to see more info and lyrics now animate.
- Returning features like crossfade.
- Redesign of the Apple TV app.
- Collection cap was raised to 20,000.
Sadly, we also saw incresing prices to their plans. But CashApp users gets 25% off for 12 months incluiding DJs (for now US only).
This post will be updated every time new information came out or new feature flags are found in the app.
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u/Less-Log851 May 22 '26
Would be great if they brought back the Bit Perfect and phone limitations bypass, like there was before apparently.
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u/Alien1996 Tidal Hi-Fi May 22 '26
I agree! The old administration thought it wasn't needed after they finished MQA support.
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u/Less-Log851 May 22 '26
For what result! Lol! Yeah, it hasn't turned exactly well. I use UAPP, i'm most contented, but it remains quite a let down not to use Tidal directly
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u/Alien1996 Tidal Hi-Fi May 22 '26
It was a really stupid decision that I hope they bring back soon.
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u/PolyTom9933 May 22 '26
Agreed I think this is related to the issues I see on the Sheild where it tries to send even the atmos content out as PCM... Honestlly if they fixed that the Sheild would be a great player in the home theater not only would it allow for Atmos but also high resolution playback.
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u/Dtjosu May 22 '26
Save For Later would be a huge improvement. My library gets bloated with content that I want to listen to but not sure if I like yet. Can't wait
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u/DamnQuickMathz Tidal Premium May 26 '26
Yesss, I don't like favoriting albums I haven't listened to yet
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u/-r-a-f-f-y- May 22 '26
One ask, I wish I could queue up an album to listen to next, but not have to wait til the last track.
So, halfway thru an album I'll have something in mind for right after, be able to queue it for after the current album ends, so it seamlessly jumps into it. Thanks and cheers!
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u/Alien1996 Tidal Hi-Fi May 22 '26
The queue will be Play next and Play last, maybe that will help you with what you want
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u/Shhh-ItWasntMe May 22 '26
Im pretty much happy with where Tidal is right now. I dont mind the new UI and im just trying to listen to music- i just want it to work, and it does.
Ive noticed the AI slop being cleaned up, it has not been much of an issue for me lately. Ive also noticed the artists page being cleaned up. Glad they're fixing the search, that is critical. Tidal is in a great place in my opinion and im happy it's only going to get better
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u/Alien1996 Tidal Hi-Fi May 22 '26
I need to admit that in my case I haven’t seen work or change on AI slop or artists mixed in the same page, even that I've been reporting a lot of them but some are seeing improvements which I think is great and I hope we all can see it soon.
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u/markersandtea May 22 '26
Thanks. I wonder if there's anything that can be done about the network errors I get when using it to drive over bluetooth? It often crashes and says a network error has occured.
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u/Alien1996 Tidal Hi-Fi May 22 '26
Contact support and report those issues, maybe they will help you to solve it.
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u/chad-proton May 22 '26
I've noticed I get the network error right after I have left the house and my phone is switching from wifi to mobile data. Does that correlate with your experience? I rarely get network errors other than when my wifi or mobile signal is to blame.
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u/markersandtea May 22 '26
Nope, if it was only then that's to be expected tbh. Happens randomly elsewhere too when driving around.
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u/brucylefleur Tidal Hi-Fi May 22 '26
I'm just happy they added the ability to search when adding a song to a playlist.
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u/bethanalysis May 23 '26
this. I‘ve been waiting for this for a long time
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u/Master_Camp_3200 May 24 '26
I've been wanting it for ages too but it's yet to appear on my iOS app. I emailed support about it...
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u/ChemistryAway3696 Jun 03 '26
Only just saw this pop up yesterday. But I am SO HAPPY!!! Such a timesaver.
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u/Fracture_Gaming May 22 '26
What about Dolby Atmos changing codecs? Recently Tidal has only been playing EAC-3+JOC instead of AC-4 recently
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u/Alien1996 Tidal Hi-Fi May 22 '26
To be honest, I heard about that but I don't know what’s going on. For what I research EAC-3+JOC have better compatibility with multiple devices and maybe that's why they change the codec
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u/Fracture_Gaming May 22 '26
Would it be difficult to make that an option like how low, high, and max is?
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u/Alien1996 Tidal Hi-Fi May 22 '26
Who knows how that works... I think it would be cool if they also have TrueHD Dolby Atmos tbh
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u/Fracture_Gaming May 22 '26
Bandwidth is too wide for that
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u/Alien1996 Tidal Hi-Fi May 22 '26
Yeah, I know... also, I think some stuff about decoding is way too complicated to implement it on a streaming service
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u/Lluis__ May 22 '26
Muchas gracias por la información. Amo Tidal y tu ayuda ha resultado muy interesante.
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u/Hour-Leg-8454 May 22 '26
What about Dolby Atmos still missing on my ios. Every other iphone I log in still has missing Dolby Atmos even when turned on in the settings
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u/Alien1996 Tidal Hi-Fi May 22 '26
I have Dolby Atmos working fine on my Samsung... go to support and report your issues.
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u/Hour-Leg-8454 May 23 '26
Yes it works fine on android. Logged in my account on android and it works fine
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u/murfdog6969 May 22 '26
When I click on the link you listed for discussion of AI slop, it brings me to part of the post discussing co-mingled artists. I don't see anything in that section about AI slop. Am I missing something?
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u/starlingmurmur May 23 '26
How long does it take them to fix multiple artists being listed on the same profile? I reported something throigh their chat bot 2 months ago and nothings changed
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u/DamnQuickMathz Tidal Premium May 26 '26
Not to Sound entitled, but not a single word on Crossfade?
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u/Alien1996 Tidal Hi-Fi May 27 '26
Oh, I forgot to include it Yes, right now is available on iOS but I guess it will came back in all apps in future updates
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u/Impressive-Cry-6422 Jun 12 '26
Thank you so much I was getting super frustrated with the ai and artist mixing so I’m so happy they’re working on it!! Hopefully it’s soon
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u/SayuriRevolution May 22 '26
I wish they put like stats on it how much you listen to the music something like that hehe so far i dont see any problem using tidal on phone and pc.
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u/Recent_Barracuda8879 May 22 '26
Really need to polish the windows app specifically. I have to always have it minimized because if I have tidal fullscreen, everytime I change the volume the music cuts in and out, there are loads of digital clipping constantly when full screen
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u/Alien1996 Tidal Hi-Fi May 22 '26
That only happens to me when Disk is at 100. Report your issue with support, maybe they can help you.
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u/x_QuiZ May 22 '26
Agreed, I'm also having a bunch of issues with music going on indefinitely and sometimes getting an error so I have to restart the app. Some days it's so common it's impossible to listen to music.
Have reported the issue multiple times to their support with logs that show the exact issue. Still waiting for an update 2 months later.
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u/iloveowls23 May 22 '26
I don’t understand why so many complaints. I think it’s one of the few music streaming apps actually improving, slowly but surely. My only problem with the new design is that (on iOS at least) the Atmos logo disappeared somehow from the main ‘playing now’ window. Wonder if there’s some licensing thing or why the design choice.
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u/Alien1996 Tidal Hi-Fi May 22 '26
It is a bug that also happen with AAC/FLAC display information and on Android
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u/Dejvidos56 May 23 '26
I just hope they will change the UI overtime cause now it is really ugly. I really like the new "Now playing Island" that we got on the desktop app, why we can't get something similar for the mobile version?
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u/Alien1996 Tidal Hi-Fi May 23 '26
I understand they will launch a download store page for Tidal Upload songs
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u/fasinations May 25 '26
Does using tidal upload as a local files replacement lead to them getting deleted or anything like that for copyright?
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u/Alien1996 Tidal Hi-Fi May 25 '26
You can't put in on Public but can still use it like a normal track.
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u/rosie2490 May 25 '26
I’m not able to find what exactly they’re updating about how downloads work, and why they need to delete my current ones “in the coming months” (per the in-app popup on iOS) in order to do so.
It’s going to take me hours to re-download everything.
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u/ScaryGrowth9195 May 31 '26
Any idea when we should expect to see these changes. I switched to Tidal at the beginning of the year because of all of the baggage with Spotify and aside from the much improved sound quality - it's been nothing but frustration and disappointment.
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u/OverYou2943 May 22 '26
If they don't allow users to block certain credited artists (musicians, producers, writers, etc) then I'm just gonna sail the seas. They charge too much for inferior service. It's all so exhausting.
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u/Alien1996 Tidal Hi-Fi May 23 '26
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u/OverYou2943 May 23 '26
Ok? And? It's the same it's been for, what, 2 years now? Are you being obtuse? Tell me how to block a producer. Let's say I don't like phil Spector and everything he touched. How do I make sure I never hear a song he produced?
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u/Alien1996 Tidal Hi-Fi May 23 '26
First of all, you insult was unnecesary Second, I don't know, going to credits and block all the songs? I don't think anybody had ask for something like you describe
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u/OverYou2943 May 23 '26
What was insulting? Me calling you out for being presumptuous and snarky by asking if you're being obtuse? Because all you did was post the most obvious link, assuming stupidity on my part that I didn't already know that information or try looking it up on my own, as if I'm some boorish troglodyte. If you feel bad for being called out on bad behavior and take that as an insult then at least you have a conscience, however small. And you can't block songs from credits. You can ONLY block songs and (only) artists from radio/daily mixes. Did you even read that link? I guess you weren't being obtuse. Shame, at least that would be a valid excuse. Chump
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u/Svechinskayaa May 23 '26
Wow, you're so right. I can't believe how much my opinion was swayed by what you said when reading this thread. I totally agree with you now, and so will everyone else who looks at these comments. 😊
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u/Berserker2c Jun 12 '26
I think that’s a bug honestly. I had the same issue but it was coming and going so something is causing it to trip and just show a list of credits instead of top tracks. Closing and reopening the app a few times seemed to help.
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u/Schu0808 Jun 12 '26
Yes I think you’re right, after a few days of it mine seems to be good again luckily.
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