Tidal may be a distant competitor to Apple Music and Spotify, but much like Neil Young’s PonoMusic, Tidal is keeping its high-fidelity music service going far past its expected expiration date.
Tidal’s most premium-est audio vision, Tidal Masters, gives your tunes a studio-quality kick (typically 96 kHz / 24 bit), a substantial bump beyond what its HiFi streaming delivers. The “Master Quality” audio first came to the ill-fated Essential Phone, then Tidal rolled out the feature to Android phones this past January, and it’s now available on iOS devices as of today.
Tidal pitches the extra high-end mode for song quality as “exactly as the artist intended it to sound.”
It’s not going to change how you listen to your entire library; in January, the company detailed that about 165,000 of the tracks had support for the high-end bitrate. Tidal says that you also must be a subscriber of Tidal HiFi, which sets you back $19.99 per month.
Written by Lucas Matney
This news first appeared on https://techcrunch.com/2019/03/11/tidals-high-fidelity-masters-audio-mode-lands-on-ios-app/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Techcrunch+%28TechCrunch%29 under the title “Tidal’s high-fidelity ‘Masters’ audio mode lands on iOS apps”. Bolchha Nepal is not responsible or affiliated towards the opinion expressed in this news article.
