I was able to get subscribed to Tidal and install the Ickstream plugin within an hour or so. Minor hiccup when the Ickstream platform itself seemed to go down for a while, and I had to futz with the FLAC playback settings within the LMS Advanced tab to get all tracks to play. But with patience came triumph.
In terms of interface convenience, it's on par with Spotify via SBT. The search function is clunkier and tends to cast a wide net for hits and return much more than you are looking for, but no big deal. Tidal via SBT does have access to curated playlists that Spotify via SBT does not. Plus for me. I did not do a direct comparison with Spotify for sound quality, but after an hour of listening it felt surely better, more three dimensional. Upper frequencies seemed accentuated slightly. I did an A/B/A between Tidal and a couple of familiar FLAC tracks ripped to my local hard drive and accessed via Touch. Unfortunately, the hard-drive rips won by a small but definite margin with better detail retrieval and overall a more pure and clean presentation. So I am slightly disappointed that at this moment the lossless streaming available to me does not equal the best fidelity I've had at home, but I will go forward with Tidal for sure. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ cymbop's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=50761 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=102381 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
