TIDAL (Equiv to Spotify) for 1.11/month SEE OP POST

Shlippery · 22-01-2021 3:16pm

superflyninja wrote: »

Yup I signed up for that too. HiFi family is under 4 euro a month.

Does this definitely work? Like when we get billed for the first time is it known to have no issues?

Well, I've all the playlists transferred, if any issues I can jump back to Spotify handy enough, but I'm impressed so far. find the UI nice as well.

superflyninja · 22-01-2021 3:24pm

Shlippery wrote: »

Well, I've all the playlists transferred, if any issues I can jump back to Spotify handy enough, but I'm impressed so far. find the UI nice as well.

Yeah fair point. I just tested and Tidal works fine with Android Auto btw.

TheDriver · 22-01-2021 3:30pm

I'm in the 4th month, no issue. Revolut did freeze my card the first time but once I verified it wasn't suspicious, there's been no issue since.
I had the same issue with youtube argentina.

If you change packages mid month, it modifies the rate and length of membership.

Lastly, I did get an email mid Dec that they had issues with a licence in Turkey (due to a new law) and i couldn't listen until they sorted it. Mine kept working. They emailed a few days later that it was all sorted and gave me a free month.

bidiots · 22-01-2021 6:45pm

Shlippery wrote: »

The FLAC/Master for €2.22 is incredible value! Playlist transfer happening now...I'm on spotify since the good 'ol days and this might be a turning point!

l wonder would you notice the difference or effect of Hifi on a good pair of headphones like the bose or sony high end stuff or would you need a proper DAC type setup?

Russ Hanneman · 22-01-2021 7:28pm

Noiz wrote: »

I could sign up using vpn in Turkey and showing me their price for the subscription but just couldn't continue and kept saying can't accept my credit card. Tried both Revolut and a normal credit card

Any solution for this problem? I've tried Tunnelbear via Argentina & Hola via Turkey. I used my 2 revolut cards, plus the virtual card & finally my AIB card, all to no avail.

Shlippery · 22-01-2021 8:16pm

bidiots wrote: »

l wonder would you notice the difference or effect of Hifi on a good pair of headphones like the bose or sony high end stuff or would you need a proper DAC type setup?

Wouldn't class myself as an audiophile but I do have amp/bookshelf/cheap dac and speakers so figure I'll get extra benefit from the switch to Tidal.

Main attraction is still the price point...this BA for two quid a month with the added bonus of the high quality stuff was too good to pass up! & it casts to my google home just fine, so I don't seem to be losing anything I had with spotify!

Len_007 · 22-01-2021 8:41pm

Russ Hanneman wrote: »

Any solution for this problem? I've tried Tunnelbear via Argentina & Hola via Turkey. I used my 2 revolut cards, plus the virtual card & finally my AIB card, all to no avail.

Yes I’m also crying out for a solution to this obstacle

TheDriver · 22-01-2021 8:42pm

I still have my spotify (as I had done a year on a family slot which is nearly up for renewal) and gave tidal a try. I haven't used spotify in a month. It's a bargain, to hell with spotify. Between this and youtube music for live stuff, they're both BA of the year for me.

TheDriver · 22-01-2021 8:42pm

Len_007 wrote: »

Yes I’m also crying out for a solution to this obstacle

have you tried a different device or anything?

Len_007 · 22-01-2021 11:07pm

TheDriver wrote: »

have you tried a different device or anything?

Yes, both my work & personal laptop with hola Vpn Chrome extension ðŸ˜«

loopymum · 22-01-2021 11:30pm

Thanks to the op. I have windscribe so used that and my revolut worked without using the virtual card. Have it downloaded and working on one fire tv stick but it won't launch on the other stick

ooter · 23-01-2021 12:34am

Thank you OP, just signed up for the family plan using my revolut card. Less than €2 a month, proper bargain.

enviro · 23-01-2021 6:37pm

dulpit wrote: »

Great offer, cheers OP. I used tunemymusic to transfer playlist, 17 songs total not transferred, and was very quick to process too.

Thanks I used this also, 2 songs didn't move. Great bargain OP.

TheDriver · 23-01-2021 6:55pm

enviro wrote: »

Thanks I used this also, 2 songs didn't move. Great bargain OP.

I found about 5 songs didn't move. I found them on tidal manually, it just didn't pick up the name correctly.

superflyninja · 25-01-2021 12:55pm

I did come across an issue on Tidal. The search doesnt seem to pick up user playlists. Thats a right balls. For example searching Spotify for Cobra Kai shows loads of playlists of music from the tv show. Nothing at all on Tidal, just an album or two of cover bands.

Fuascailteoir · 25-01-2021 2:10pm

About 90% reduction on family hifi. Nice one OP

vectra · 25-01-2021 2:50pm

do you have to pay monthly or can you pay annually?

Kintarō Hattori · 25-01-2021 3:03pm

Super bargain, thanks OP. Been a Spotify user for many years but at less than €3.50 for a Hi-Fi family account, that's hard to resist- especially when I've been working from home for almost 12 months and listening to my music on a decent Hi-Fi system which is Tidal compatible.

killbillvol2 · 25-01-2021 6:58pm

superflyninja wrote: »

I did come across an issue on Tidal. The search doesnt seem to pick up user playlists. Thats a right balls. For example searching Spotify for Cobra Kai shows loads of playlists of music from the tv show. Nothing at all on Tidal, just an album or two of cover bands.

The biggest attraction of Spotify for me is the selection of playlists. You can search almost any TV show or movie and some nerd will have compiled a complete playlist. Somebody even went to the trouble of making a playlist of all the tunes mentioned in a series of crime novels I read.

Just find them in Spotify and move them to Tidal.

TheDriver · 25-01-2021 7:02pm

killbillvol2 wrote: »

The biggest attraction of Spotify for me is the selection of playlists. You can search almost any TV show or movie and some nerd will have compiled a complete playlist. Somebody even went to the trouble of making a playlist of all the tunes mentioned in a series of crime novels I read.

Just find them in Spotify and move them to Tidal.

Good point. So can you make playlists in free Spotify and then move them?

killbillvol2 · 25-01-2021 7:33pm

TheDriver wrote: »

Good point. So can you make playlists in free Spotify and then move them?

Not just your own, other playlists that you follow.

John Hutton · 25-01-2021 8:55pm

Amazing bargain OP. Been on Spotify forever but this is better audio quality, and cheaper. Signed up for family hi fi.

ablelocks · 25-01-2021 9:23pm

TheDriver wrote: »

Good point. So can you make playlists in free Spotify and then move them?

killbillvol2 wrote: »

Not just your own, other playlists that you follow.

hmm, i used tunemymusic and only 13 playlists transferred - looks like these were the ones i created. but none of the ones i follow in spotify transferred.

what site do you use?

killbillvol2 · 26-01-2021 1:30am

ablelocks wrote: »

hmm, i used tunemymusic and only 13 playlists transferred - looks like these were the ones i created. but none of the ones i follow in spotify transferred.

what site do you use?

I used Soundiiz. Paid for one month, moved everything in a couple of hours.

dulpit · 26-01-2021 6:41am

ablelocks wrote: »

hmm, i used tunemymusic and only 13 playlists transferred - looks like these were the ones i created. but none of the ones i follow in spotify transferred.

what site do you use?

Just go to Spotify, create a playlist. Then go to the playlist you follow, highlight all tracks and add to the newly created playlist. Repeat for as many as you need, shouldn't take more than a few minutes. Then import away, job done.

smilerf · 26-01-2021 8:12am

Maybe you should change equivalent to alternative in the thread title as Tidal sound wise is far better than Spotify

Blazer · 26-01-2021 10:26am

what vpn did people use successfully to sign up?
I have Nord which doesn't work and I also seen tunnelbear meantioned as not working either.

TheDriver · 26-01-2021 10:34am

Blazer wrote: »

what vpn did people use successfully to sign up?
I have Nord which doesn't work and I also seen tunnelbear meantioned as not working either.

keepsolid vpnunlimited. I have the lifetime plan which I use for streaming services

Blazer · 26-01-2021 10:44am

also what revolut plan are people using? Im on basic and its not getting accepted.

ohnonotgmail · 26-01-2021 10:48am

Blazer wrote: »

also what revolut plan are people using? Im on basic and its not getting accepted.

I'm on basic with a turkish lira wallet and the virtual card worked for me

Blazer · 26-01-2021 11:04am

ohnonotgmail wrote: »

I'm on basic with a turkish lira wallet and the virtual card worked for me

sorry for the questions but I've only ever used the basic revolut..
I've created a new turkish account and transferred money into it from my default EU account,
Created a new virtual card but same issue. Am I missing something?
Do i need to set a primary account etc? Revolut's faq isn't the best.

PreCocious · 26-01-2021 11:18am

TheDriver wrote: »

Tidal is an excellent equivalent to Spotify.
To get it for approx 1.11 a month, you sign up through Turkey. Actual price is 9.99 Turkish Lira.
There is a family plan for 1.80 a month whereby you can have 6 members.
App is similar to spotify. Only downside is that you can't use it on an alexa speaker (unless you have a US account) except through Bluetooth from your phone app.

Steps:
a) Open a VPN and go to turkey. There are many free VPNs that offer sufficient data for a signup.
b) Open a browser and open tidal.com. The turkish website should open.
c) Register and pick your account. 9.99 Turkish Lira for individual account, 14.99 for family account.
d) after sign up, turn off VPN and enjoy TIDAL.

There are numerous free services that will transfer your playlists between services. I used tunemymusic free service for the once off transfer.

Thanks for sharing this and especially the recommendation for tunemymusic.

irelandrover · 26-01-2021 11:21am

Blazer wrote: »

also what revolut plan are people using? Im on basic and its not getting accepted.

I use Windscribe and the basic revolut. It doesnt work if you already had a tidal account. I had to sign up using a new email.

Former Former Former · 26-01-2021 11:32am

You can actually get 4 months for 4 euro legit on Tidal at the moment, so actually cheaper but only for a limited time obviously.

Blazer · 26-01-2021 11:33am

yeah did that///ah screw it...couldn't be bothered anymore dicking around with it.
thanks anyway for the help

ohnonotgmail · 26-01-2021 11:34am

Blazer wrote: »

sorry for the questions but I've only ever used the basic revolut..
I've created a new turkish account and transferred money into it from my default EU account,
Created a new virtual card but same issue. Am I missing something?
Do i need to set a primary account etc? Revolut's faq isn't the best.

you have the same setup as me. I dont think I can help further, sorry.

Blazer · 26-01-2021 11:39am

ohnonotgmail wrote: »

you have the same setup as me. I don't think I can help further, sorry.

no worries good sir

thank you for your patience.

AllForIt · 26-01-2021 12:20pm

Delighted with this. I took the Hi-Fi option as I have a high end dac inbuilt on my phone. So just over €2 euro a month. Just listening now to some David Bowie Remasterd with my Sennhisers. Fantasitc!

Anyway Windscribe was really slow so I downloaded to my phone expressvpn which gave a 7 day trial and thethered it to my PC and signed up easily. I used my reg bank debit card and went though fine although I'm not sure if they procced a payment as I think I'm getting a free month trial first and I wasn't asked for any kind of further verification from my bank as I usually get.

TheDriver · 26-01-2021 12:31pm

AllForIt wrote: »

Delighted with this. I took the Hi-Fi option as I have a high end dac inbuilt on my phone. So just over €2 euro a month. Just listening now to some David Bowie Remasterd with my Sennhisers. Fantasitc!

Anyway Windscribe was really slow so I downloaded to my phone expressvpn which gave a 7 day trial and thethered it to my PC and signed up easily. I used my reg bank debit card and went though fine although I'm not sure if they procced a payment as I think I'm getting a free month trial first and I wasn't asked for any kind of further verification from my bank as I usually get.

revolut froze my card when i was asked for the first real payment. Quick unfreeze and all was good.
Same happened for youtube turkey and youtube argentina

ohnonotgmail · 26-01-2021 12:37pm

TheDriver wrote: »

revolut froze my card when i was asked for the first real payment. Quick unfreeze and all was good.
Same happened for youtube turkey and youtube argentina

They put a charge of 0 TL on my card and later reverted it.

John Hutton · 26-01-2021 1:34pm

ohnonotgmail wrote: »

They put a charge of 0 TL on my card and later reverted it.

Same

Russ Hanneman · 26-01-2021 2:27pm

Russ Hanneman wrote: »

Any solution for this problem? I've tried Tunnelbear via Argentina & Hola via Turkey. I used my 2 revolut cards, plus the virtual card & finally my AIB card, all to no avail.

Right I'm giving up & admitting defeat! I need to move on with my life & get some real work done.....its been driving me cuckoo.

Have tried 4 of my email addresses, contemplated setting up new email addresses aswell as asking for my sisters email address.

Tried all my cards, my mothers card on my laptop, PC and phone....Tunnellbear, HolaVPN & expressVPN mobile app and spent close to 2 hours yesterday interacting with a Revolut agent AND STILL no bueno!

If anyone would like to sell me a Family HiFi slot & help me out I'd be ecstatic at this stage.
Please get in touch with a DM.

Yours
Drained Emotionally, Russ.

SnuggyBear · 26-01-2021 3:07pm

If you get the free trial and then buy the 4 for 4 deal will it give you the 5 months for 4 euro?

Blazer · 26-01-2021 3:23pm

Russ Hanneman wrote: »

Right I'm giving up & admitting defeat! I need to move on with my life & get some real work done.....its been driving me cuckoo.

Have tried 4 of my email addresses, contemplated setting up new email addresses aswell as asking for my sisters email address.

Tried all my cards, my mothers card on my laptop, PC and phone....Tunnellbear, HolaVPN & expressVPN mobile app and spent close to 2 hours yesterday interacting with a Revolut agent AND STILL no bueno!

If anyone would like to sell me a Family HiFi slot & help me out I'd be ecstatic at this stage.
Please get in touch with a DM.

Yours
Drained Emotionally, Russ.

same..I've gotten netflix working no bother and many others but Tidal just refuses to work.
different laptops, different vpns, my mobile nada...

AllForIt · 26-01-2021 4:23pm

You can set up an alias email on gmail and microsoft so you don't have to set up a new email address from scratch which is a pain.

Blazer · 26-01-2021 4:26pm

oh i've plenty of email addresses

it sees it as a new account but just won't process the payment.

SnuggyBear · 26-01-2021 5:04pm

Signed up. Nice bargain cheers op

Snake Plisken · 26-01-2021 8:52pm

Strange tried to sign up with getsolids VPN unlimited and I get a 403 error both on mobile and laptop any ideas?

BobbyT28 · 26-01-2021 8:55pm

Cancelled YouTube music for Tidal HiFi. Have this playing on Apple TV 4K through Denon amp.

Thanks OP

Len_007 · 26-01-2021 10:04pm

Russ Hanneman wrote: »

Right I'm giving up & admitting defeat! I need to move on with my life & get some real work done.....its been driving me cuckoo.

Have tried 4 of my email addresses, contemplated setting up new email addresses aswell as asking for my sisters email address.

Tried all my cards, my mothers card on my laptop, PC and phone....Tunnellbear, HolaVPN & expressVPN mobile app and spent close to 2 hours yesterday interacting with a Revolut agent AND STILL no bueno!

If anyone would like to sell me a Family HiFi slot & help me out I'd be ecstatic at this stage.
Please get in touch with a DM.

Yours
Drained Emotionally, Russ.

I feel your pain, I gave up yesterday too, can't figure out for the life of me why it discriminates in this way, equality dang it!

TIDAL (Equiv to Spotify) for 1.11/month SEE OP POST

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