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

ohnonotgmail · 16-03-2021 11:57pm

Klingon Hamlet wrote: »

Has anyone had problems paying their sub by revolut? Got an email saying the payment failed. It was via a virtual card. I updated it with the real card details. No word since.

None for me. I signed up in Jan and they took the 9,99 on Feb 20 from a virtual card.

Sup08 · 17-03-2021 9:16pm

ohnonotgmail wrote: »

None for me. I signed up in Jan and they took the 9,99 on Feb 20 from a virtual card.

Same here, got charged for family on 20th Feb 3.61 :rolleyes: for a family membership on Revolut virtual card.
Revolut changed my card number recently and updated it with no issues on my account.

Klingon Hamlet · 17-03-2021 10:23pm

Sup08 wrote: »

Same here, got charged for family on 20th Feb 3.61 :rolleyes: for a family membership on Revolut virtual card.
Revolut changed my card number recently and updated it with no issues on my account.

Does it have.to be a virtual card?

Sup08 · 17-03-2021 10:26pm

Klingon Hamlet wrote: »

Does it have.to be a virtual card?

Not that I'm aware of, just prefer to use the virtual one as it can be disposed of and replaced quickly

Klingon Hamlet · 18-03-2021 7:07pm

Sup08 wrote: »

Not that I'm aware of, just prefer to use the virtual one as it can be disposed of and replaced quickly

They emailed me today: Thank you for contacting support at TIDAL.

My name is Andrea and I'd be happy to help any way I can with your account, I have reviewed your request, and it appears that your card has been declined. Please contact your bank or credit card company for more information. As an alternative, try updating your account with a different card.

If you signed up using a Prepaid Credit Card, you will need to update your payment details with a credit/debit card (in your name) associated with a bank or credit card company. While Prepaid Credit Cards have a Visa or MasterCard logo, our system will reject payments as our system does not recognize prepaid credit cards.

Otherwise, to re-establish service, you can update your payment details using an Active PayPal account

Please let me know if there is anything else that I can help you with and I'll be happy to do so. Please remember to check out our support page at https://support.tidal.com.

carltonleon · 21-03-2021 4:01pm

So signed up for the family Tidal acct (and You Tube Premium as per the other BA) ... used revolut and obviously both are in the 1 month trial period so no payments taken but obviously you have to enter in card details which is the Revolut Virtual Card but both payments are €0 as expected but both say ‘Reverted - Card Authorisation Request’ ... I am not sure exactly what that means , is it just because there is no payment to be taken until next month when the trial period ends ?

dulpit · 21-03-2021 4:07pm

carltonleon wrote: »

So signed up for the family Tidal acct (and You Tube Premium as per the other BA) ... used revolut and obviously both are in the 1 month trial period so no payments taken but obviously you have to enter in card details which is the Revolut Virtual Card but both payments are €0 as expected but both say ‘Reverted - Card Authorisation Request’ ... I am not sure exactly what that means , is it just because there is no payment to be taken until next month when the trial period ends ?

That's normal, just means that YouTube and tidal pinged your card to make sure it's real.

TheDriver · 21-03-2021 4:07pm

Thats correct. It's testing your card.

killbillvol2 · 21-03-2021 4:08pm

For those of us currently'residing' in Turkey the lira is expected to take a nosedive tomorrow as Mr. Erdogan has sacked the head of the Central Bank again.

carltonleon · 21-03-2021 4:42pm

Thanks lads, I just wasn’t sure...
No I just have to convince my kids about Tidal, son is complaining that he can’t play it through his PlayStation and daughter is complaining cause she pre booked some bands live stream that you can only do on spotify

killbillvol2 · 22-03-2021 1:16pm

Lira down about 10% so far today.

ohnonotgmail · 22-03-2021 1:18pm

killbillvol2 wrote: »

Lira down about 10% so far today.

a good day to buy some lira for my revolut account

JimmyVik · 24-03-2021 9:09am

Can I say hey google, drop me a beat with tidal.
The kids love the way they can just ask goolge to play whatever song they want through spotify.
If they can do the same on tidal im in.

killbillvol2 · 24-03-2021 11:41am

JimmyVik wrote: »

Can I say hey google, drop me a beat with tidal.
The kids love the way they can just ask goolge to play whatever song they want through spotify.
If they can do the same on tidal im in.

No. Tidal and Google don't play nice together.

superflyninja · 26-03-2021 10:29am

Spotify beats Tidal in functionality and compatibility. But thanks to this Tidal wallops Spotify on price. Depends if you are willing to give up the stable app and google/alexa integration.

killbillvol2 · 26-03-2021 10:37am

superflyninja wrote: »

Spotify beats Tidal in functionality and compatibility. But thanks to this Tidal wallops Spotify on price. Depends if you are willing to give up the stable app and google/alexa integration.

The audio quality on Tidal wins hands down and the algorithm they use for suggesting music seems much better tuned (for me anyway). I've had no issues with the app and I'll get over having to press a few buttons rather than speak to Google.

superflyninja · 26-03-2021 10:50am

killbillvol2 wrote: »

The audio quality on Tidal wins hands down and the algorithm they use for suggesting music seems much better tuned (for me anyway). I've had no issues with the app and I'll get over having to press a few buttons rather than speak to Google.

Yep totally agree on audio quality. The suggested music doesnt seem as good for me. My main beef is the app crashing. Often if I pause the music and come back a little while later I cant resume, I have to select the playlist again and play. Another issue is searchable user playlists doesnt seem to be a thing on Tidal.

JimmyVik · 26-03-2021 10:54am

killbillvol2 wrote: »

The audio quality on Tidal wins hands down and the algorithm they use for suggesting music seems much better tuned (for me anyway). I've had no issues with the app and I'll get over having to press a few buttons rather than speak to Google.

I could get over that. And honestly i can never hear a difference in audio quality in a room even though friends say there is, so that doesnt bother me.
But the rest of the family, especially the oldies and the kids, would never give up being able to just ask google to play sopmething.

killbillvol2 · 26-03-2021 11:02am

superflyninja wrote: »

Another issue is searchable user playlists doesnt seem to be a thing on Tidal.

That's Spotify's biggest selling point for me and the thing I miss most. For pretty much any TV series or film somebody has made a playlist. Some ubergeek even made a playlist of every tune mentioned in a series of books I read! But for €2 a month I'll get over it!

ablelocks · 26-03-2021 11:05am

i generally listen to albums, and when they finish there's a "radio" listing that starts automatically that is very good and plays relevant to the album.

my kids are complaining that the playlists are rubbish.

but I'm the one paying the bill (along with netflix, disney, prime etc) so i told them tough ****. they can take the time to figure out the app or they can make their own playlists.

App has never crashed for me, although it does seem to get confused at times if there are multiple speakers on - it might be set to bluetooth on the echo show but then randomly switch to the sonos player in another room. may not be the apps fault though.

Del007 · 26-03-2021 11:11am

superflyninja wrote: »

Yep totally agree on audio quality. The suggested music doesnt seem as good for me. My main beef is the app crashing. Often if I pause the music and come back a little while later I cant resume, I have to select the playlist again and play. Another issue is searchable user playlists doesnt seem to be a thing on Tidal.

This constantly happens me. If I pause a song, it will often play something completely random when I try to resume the song. This is through bluetooth headphones so that could possibly be the reason

SnuggyBear · 26-03-2021 12:07pm

superflyninja wrote: »

Yep totally agree on audio quality. The suggested music doesnt seem as good for me. My main beef is the app crashing. Often if I pause the music and come back a little while later I cant resume, I have to select the playlist again and play. Another issue is searchable user playlists doesnt seem to be a thing on Tidal.

It's a bit buggy alright but I prefer it to Spotify. Spotify us always changing things for no reason.

dulpit · 26-03-2021 4:27pm

I had to bail on this - I'd pick a song to play, and it would play something randomly different. Or would play the start of a song and then crash out.

ohnonotgmail · 26-03-2021 4:48pm

dulpit wrote: »

I had to bail on this - I'd pick a song to play, and it would play something randomly different. Or would play the start of a song and then crash out.

On android? Haven't had a single issue myself.

carltonleon · 27-03-2021 12:32am

Yeah I gave it up as well.. kids didn’t like it as couldn’t play through PS4, it didn’t have live stream events of the bands my daughter liked and the Google thing annoyed my wife as she looks to use google home for music, but I suppose the main reason was my Mam who is 84 and on my Spotify family for all her opera stuff would not have been able to make the change, so bailed out. Absolutely fantastic bargain though if all my family had not gotten used to Spotify first :pac:

jakdublin · 27-03-2021 4:16am

carltonleon wrote: »

Yeah I gave it up as well.. kids didn’t like it as couldn’t play through PS4, it didn’t have live stream events of the bands my daughter liked and the Google thing annoyed my wife as she looks to use google home for music, but I suppose the main reason was my Mam who is 84 and on my Spotify family for all her opera stuff would not have been able to make the change, so bailed out. Absolutely fantastic bargain though if all my family had not gotten used to Spotify first :pac:

Kids and wife would have adapted, or learnt to live with change but I'm 100% with your on your mam. The less change they have at that age, the better.

I like Tidal and have had to adapt, but if I had a choice between Spotify and Tidal at the price I pay for Tidal I'd pick Spotify, purely because every shared playlist comes in Spotify format. This bargain is all about the savings.

carltonleon · 27-03-2021 10:46am

jakdublin wrote: »

Kids and wife would have adapted, or learnt to live with change but I'm 100% with your on your mam. The less change they have at that age, the better.

I like Tidal and have had to adapt, but if I had a choice between Spotify and Tidal at the price I pay for Tidal I'd pick Spotify, purely because every shared playlist comes in Spotify format. This bargain is all about the savings.

Oh 100%, kids and wife would have had a moan for a week or so and then got on with it but no way my Mam would have made the change and I know she would just have told me that ‘it’s working fine’ and then just not bothered to use it.....

superflyninja · 29-03-2021 6:09pm

For all Tidal's foibles, the price wins for me. No contest really.
I still have my Spotify account, can find playlists there and import to Tidal anyway. But if Tidal cotton on and its back to full price, Id go back to Spotify without hesitation.

smilerf · 30-03-2021 2:37pm

I've been paying Turkish prices but have just been asked to add a new payment method ðŸ˜

GalwayGaillimh · 10-04-2021 5:46pm

Was paying via paypal being asked to add a new payment method no paypal option...did price change or remain same after using a card?

Soarer · 20-04-2021 3:35pm

Got an email from Tidal the other day saying my Tidal trial will be ending soon, and from April 24th I'll be paying 19.99.

Balls to that, says I.
Until I realised I'm paying in Turkish Lira!

€2.04 a month I can stomach!

vectra · 20-04-2021 3:37pm

Soarer wrote: »

Got an email from Tidal the other day saying my Tidal trial will be ending soon, and from April 24th I'll be paying 19.99.

Balls to that, says I.
Until I realised I'm paying in Turkish Lira!

€2.04 a month I can stomach!

Thats the one I am on. Hfi.
Might upgrade to the family plan if I can afford it. I think it is just over €3 a month :pac::pac::pac:

Soarer · 21-04-2021 9:34am

vectra wrote: »

Thats the one I am on. Hfi.
Might upgrade to the family plan if I can afford it. I think it is just over €3 a month :pac::pac::pac:

Pure loaded, you.

The Nal · 21-04-2021 9:39am

IS this Turkish thing signing up via a VPN etc? Loved Tidal when I was on it but the Spotify music discovery is much better. Or was anyway.

TheDriver · 21-04-2021 9:43am

The Nal wrote: »

IS this Turkish thing signing up via a VPN etc? Loved Tidal when I was on it but the Spotify music discovery is much better. Or was anyway.

See OP

Jofspring · 26-04-2021 2:45pm

Spotify increasing price from 14.99 up to 17.99. Looks like it's time to jump to tidal.

Sup08 · 26-04-2021 2:49pm

vectra wrote: »

Thats the one I am on. Hfi.
Might upgrade to the family plan if I can afford it. I think it is just over €3 a month :pac::pac::pac:

Tidal family hifi account for last month on my revolut was 3.06. Just in case you need the extra 6 cent for anything else. :-)

The Nal · 26-04-2021 2:52pm

Great to be back on Tidal after a couple of years off. Only issue is when shuffling larger playlists it plays the same 2 bands s over and over.

dubmick · 26-04-2021 2:58pm

Jofspring wrote: »

Spotify increasing price from 14.99 up to 17.99. Looks like it's time to jump to tidal.

Arsenal won't buy itself

26-04-2021 3:34pm

Jofspring wrote: »

Spotify increasing price from 14.99 up to 17.99.

The Joe Rogan Experience!

26-04-2021 3:34pm

Been impressed with Tidal. Switched from Deezer

Wishox · 26-04-2021 6:55pm

Jofspring wrote: »

Spotify increasing price from 14.99 up to 17.99. Looks like it's time to jump to tidal.

Same here the greedy feckers, Just signed up to Tidal

concubar · 26-04-2021 11:49pm

Wishox wrote: »

Same here the greedy feckers, Just signed up to Tidal

yes me too, just signed up to family plan,

used winscribe vpn + my normal revolut which has turkish lire (for netflix),
all worked well in a couple of mins.

Thanks OP

Jofspring · 27-04-2021 12:23am

It'll be interesting to see how hard the price increase hits them. €3 hike is quite a jump up.

When I started with Netflix I think it was €6.99. That has kept creeping up to now €17.99. Spotify family was always €14.99 now also gone up to €17.99 and I think YouTube is close in price too. So if you have a family that uses those services you could be talking the bones of €55 just on those three subs a month. Thank god for cousins abroad.

meathman0 · 27-04-2021 12:51am

Wonder if Amazon will ever add Tidal to Echo? have both Spotify and Tidal, only have Spotify because it can be used with Amazon Echo.

jakdublin · 27-04-2021 7:22am

meathman0 wrote: »

Wonder if Amazon will ever add Tidal to Echo? have both Spotify and Tidal, only have Spotify because it can be used with Amazon Echo.

I don’t use Alexa or Amazon much but I did open a US Amazon account to connect Tidal with the Echo. I think you lose some Irish skills with a US account but like I said, I don’t use Amazon a lot so I don’t know for sure.

surfin_shoes · 27-04-2021 8:38am

Trying this while connected via Windscribe and with a virtual revolut card, I keep getting:

"Your transaction could not be completed. This could be due to incorrect credit card details, expired credit card or restrictions from your bank. Please try again or use a different credit card. If you still have problems, please contact the bank that issued your card.

Any suggestions of a workaround?

Edit: I tried with a disposable card in Revolut and it worked, nice one :-D

bidiots · 27-04-2021 11:20am

meathman0 wrote: »

Wonder if Amazon will ever add Tidal to Echo? have both Spotify and Tidal, only have Spotify because it can be used with Amazon Echo.

I kept a Prime account that the family use so Amazon Music does the job for the Echo's

Sup08 · 27-04-2021 11:23am

Just curious on whether I should change my echos to a US account.

Would the Tidal Hifi sound any better on the echo than a normal deezer/amazon account?

TheDriver · 27-04-2021 11:27am

Sup08 wrote: »

Just curious on whether I should change my echos to a US account.

Would the Tidal Hifi sound any better on the echo than a normal deezer/amazon account?

hifi would only be for decent equipment I would think. The echo is bog standard stuff

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

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