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Kanye West’s “The Life of Pablo,” and Rihanna’s “Anti,” before they’re widely
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appears on competing services.
Tidal’s exclusive video content consists of music videos, music-video outtakes,
sneak peeks, and backstage concert footage. Video content is available to both
Tidal Premium and Tidal HiFi subscribers, so it’s the lossless music streams
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the general public has an opportunity to purchase them, as well as Tidal-
exclusive streaming concerts. For example, at the time of this writing, the Tidal
homepage let subscribers purchase tickets for the Tidal X Rock the Vote voter
registration fundraiser.
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audio services focused on live audio.
TIDAL HIFI AND TIDAL MASTERS
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noncompressed 16-bit, 44.1kHz FLAC audio is pretty
damn good.For example, Steely Dan’s “Black Cow” sounded
extremely clean in my testing, making it easy for me to
discern and appreciate the individual instruments at
work; this was especially evident during cymbal
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couldn’t detect a noticeable audio boost over Slacker
Radio’s “Nightcall” stream.