gwurb Posted December 2, 2020 Share Posted December 2, 2020 (edited) As an experiment I went through setting up a new tidal account and I chose the artists that I like, etc. I have played the tracks that I enjoy. Watching what Tidal recommends for me I am disappointed. There is almost nothing in the recommendations that I have enjoyed. The reason I setup a new account to test this out is that I was thinking that maybe on my old account I had listened to enough of something that that wasn't my cup of tea and thus I was getting recommendations that weren't all that great. I want to find new music and I was hoping that Tidal algorithms would be helpful. They are not for me, not yet. How have you found Tidal recommendations? How do you go about finding new music on Tidal? Any tips and tricks? Edited December 2, 2020 by gwurb Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stereophilus Posted December 2, 2020 Share Posted December 2, 2020 Do you have Roon? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gwurb Posted December 2, 2020 Author Share Posted December 2, 2020 2 minutes ago, Stereophilus said: Do you have Roon? Don't have Roon. Is that what it shines at? Recommendations? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stereophilus Posted December 2, 2020 Share Posted December 2, 2020 Yeah. Roon integrates your music library with Tidal. Play a song you like and Roon tees up similar music from your library and Tidal. I’ve found so much music I like using Roon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wolster Posted December 27, 2020 Share Posted December 27, 2020 I use Spotify to discover new music and then add to Tidal play lists. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gwurb Posted December 27, 2020 Author Share Posted December 27, 2020 6 hours ago, wolster said: I use Spotify to discover new music and then add to Tidal play lists. Lol. I am currently doing that. It's not ideal but it's cheaper than Roon. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EHT007 Posted December 28, 2020 Share Posted December 28, 2020 If Spotify offered better stream quality it would be game over for tidal. Really is a good algorithm, and solid app. Not to mention all my mates are on it, and i cant share my play lists with them. lol. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rand129678 Posted January 14, 2021 Share Posted January 14, 2021 On 27/12/2020 at 3:14 PM, gwurb said: Lol. I am currently doing that. In my experience (and some millions of other users possibly) nothing comes close to how good Spotify's recommendations algorithms are. Scary good and I haven't found any other service that's come close. I use Tidal (with and without Roon), Apple Music and Spotify. I keep Apple Music expecting it one day to match and then pass Spotify to features. Still hasn't happened yet for me. I keep Tidal for better sound quality. I'm a Roon lifetime member, mainly for the nicest way to browse my FLAC collection if I can't find it on the streaming services. But most of my listening is music streaming these days. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Volunteer sir sanders zingmore Posted January 14, 2021 Volunteer Share Posted January 14, 2021 In my experience Pandora is miles ahead of the pack for recommendations. Spotify is next, then Tidal. Roon is truly awful Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stereophilus Posted January 14, 2021 Share Posted January 14, 2021 (edited) Interesting that some don’t like Roon... I will say that there are several different ways to get new music on Roon. “Roon Radio” is the similar music Roon tees up automatically after an album finishes and is brilliant. Roon recommended music is not as good. Edit: the Roon Radio algorithm is also user programmable. If it tees up something you don’t like, and you skip the song, it asks you why you skipped and uses this to improve the music it finds for you. Edited January 14, 2021 by Stereophilus 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Volunteer sir sanders zingmore Posted January 14, 2021 Volunteer Share Posted January 14, 2021 1 hour ago, Stereophilus said: Edit: the Roon Radio algorithm is also user programmable. If it tees up something you don’t like, and you skip the song, it asks you why you skipped and uses this to improve the music it finds for you. One of the reasons I dislike Roon Radio is that no matter how many times I skip Bruce Springsteen, he appears over and over again in every single Roon Radio, no matter what the album was that just finished. Drives me nuts Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kukynas Posted January 14, 2021 Share Posted January 14, 2021 7 hours ago, rand129678 said: In my experience (and some millions of other users possibly) nothing comes close to how good Spotify's recommendations algorithms are. Scary good and I haven't found any other service that's come close. I use Tidal (with and without Roon), Apple Music and Spotify. I keep Tidal for better sound quality. +1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stereophilus Posted January 15, 2021 Share Posted January 15, 2021 3 hours ago, sir sanders zingmore said: One of the reasons I dislike Roon Radio is that no matter how many times I skip Bruce Springsteen, he appears over and over again in every single Roon Radio, no matter what the album was that just finished. Drives me nuts Fair enough. I have never experienced that issue. Did u try blocking the artist? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Volunteer sir sanders zingmore Posted January 15, 2021 Volunteer Share Posted January 15, 2021 5 minutes ago, Stereophilus said: Fair enough. I have never experienced that issue. Did u try blocking the artist? I didn't know you could block an artist - how do you do that? All I do is thumbs down every time Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stereophilus Posted January 15, 2021 Share Posted January 15, 2021 37 minutes ago, sir sanders zingmore said: I didn't know you could block an artist - how do you do that? All I do is thumbs down every time Search the artist you want to block. On the top of artist page is a "hollow" heart icon. Click it once and it fills in (this "likes" that artist). Click a second time and the icon turns into a "block" icon. Leave it on that and it should block your Bruce issue. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
onthebeach Posted February 2, 2021 Share Posted February 2, 2021 For personal listening on Tidal hifi I only listen to albums. If i dont like the album after a track or 2 I skip to another album but if Im enjoying it Ill play the full album, sometimes over a couple of days. I get my album recommendations from allmusic.com. ive found loads of awesome artists & albums that way. I have a retail shop where i play Tidal hifi and we make up playlists or use artist radio. Works quite well but we often complain about repeated 'best of' songs so we switch to another playlist or artist or artist radio. I tried spotify but the sound was shockingly dreadful. But yes spotify has waaaaay better algorithms & playlists than tidal. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
naD Posted June 27, 2021 Share Posted June 27, 2021 Funny, I have never noticed that Spotify was recommending music that I liked. Though, this may be because other family members have my password and use my account also. To Spotify's credit, it does seem to stratify artists by the actual device being used to browse music. But, still, Robbie Williams does seem to leak over into my stream. Or, perhaps, I'm just a closet fan and don't know it yet? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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