Finance sings romances in lossless
Tidal offers two streaming options – Premium and Hi-Fi. We are exclusively interested in the second one, since only the Hi-Fi package offers lossless broadcasting and support for high-res in the form of that same MQA.
The price for a round-the-clock hi-fi stream cannot be called humane. The subscription fee for Tidal Hi-Fi per month will be 20 dollars/euro, if you register through the Apple Store it will be even more expensive. Okay, let's assume that this is “OK” by the standards of a true music lover who buys a CD or record once a month. After all, they pay approximately the same amount per unit of music media.
In addition to the financial issue in our latitudes, the limiting factor for Tidal is its lack of legal status. The application is not presented in the local AppStore, you cannot even simply register on the official website. To do this, you need to perform a number of workaround maneuvers.
The times are now such that even babies know about VPN and what they use it with. Therefore, we skip this educational section and go directly to registering a Tidal account via a VPN connection.
If you want to save money, switch your VPN to Eastern European countries or Turkey, then the subscription fee for Tidal Hi-Fi will cost 3-4 times less. This is already humane! It would be even more humane to buy a voucher on ebay.com. There, for $3, the seller will send you a login and password for Tidal Hi-Fi with access rights for 45 days. This is really a big deal, but personal settings and playlists will not be saved with this method, and each time you will have to start all over again.
