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New Tidal Subscribers: 3-Months of Tidal Premium, HiFi, or Family Music Trial Plan

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Tidal offers 3-Months of Tidal HiFi or HiFi Plus Trial Streaming Service Subscription on sale for prices starting from $1, valid for New Tidal Subscribers only.

Note, your 3-month trial of Tidal will start upon purchase and, unless you cancel, will convert to a subscription that automatically renews each month

Available Streaming PlansThanks to community member EyeVtheBeast for finding this deal

Alternatively, Best Buy has 3-Months of Tidal Premium, HiFi or Family Music Trial Streaming Service Subscription on sale for $1 valid for New Tidal Subscribers only.

Note, your 3-month trial of Tidal will start upon purchase and, unless you cancel, will convert to a subscription that automatically renews each month

Available Streaming PlansAbout the Product
  • Experience over 60 million songs, more than 250,000 music videos, expertly curated playlists, and access to live events and ticket giveaways
  • Music, On Demand, Podcasts, Radio Stations, Talk Shows, Video
  • 60M+ Songs, 250k+ Music Videos

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  • Price Research: Purchase this service today and save $28.97 Off (96.66% Savings) on the '3-Months Tidal Premium Music Trial Plan' from the original list price of $29.97
  • Offer valid for new Tidal subscribers only
  • Automatic renewal will be active and will be charged the premium price after your trial period
  • You can cancel or turn off automatic renewals at any time under your Best Buy account
  • Additional terms may also apply
  • Offer valid while promotion/offer last
Additional Note
  • Please refer to the forum thread for additional details - Discombobulated

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Tidal offers 3-Months of Tidal HiFi or HiFi Plus Trial Streaming Service Subscription on sale for prices starting from $1, valid for New Tidal Subscribers only.

Note, your 3-month trial of Tidal will start upon purchase and, unless you cancel, will convert to a subscription that automatically renews each month

Available Streaming PlansThanks to community member EyeVtheBeast for finding this deal

Alternatively, Best Buy has 3-Months of Tidal Premium, HiFi or Family Music Trial Streaming Service Subscription on sale for $1 valid for New Tidal Subscribers only.

Note, your 3-month trial of Tidal will start upon purchase and, unless you cancel, will convert to a subscription that automatically renews each month

Available Streaming PlansAbout the Product
  • Experience over 60 million songs, more than 250,000 music videos, expertly curated playlists, and access to live events and ticket giveaways
  • Music, On Demand, Podcasts, Radio Stations, Talk Shows, Video
  • 60M+ Songs, 250k+ Music Videos

Editor's Notes

Written by Discombobulated | Staff
  • Price Research: Purchase this service today and save $28.97 Off (96.66% Savings) on the '3-Months Tidal Premium Music Trial Plan' from the original list price of $29.97
  • Offer valid for new Tidal subscribers only
  • Automatic renewal will be active and will be charged the premium price after your trial period
  • You can cancel or turn off automatic renewals at any time under your Best Buy account
  • Additional terms may also apply
  • Offer valid while promotion/offer last
Additional Note
  • Please refer to the forum thread for additional details - Discombobulated

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IDAnonymous
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note: this subscription starts on purchase and needs to be canceled under manage subscription on bestbuy.com
brucknerfan
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I don't like how this deal is set up. In order to cancel the service you have to do so through your Bestbuy account. Someone on BB stated that a BB associate told them that will refer you to Tidal if there's an issue managing your Tidal account. Tidal on the other hand has a FAQ page that states that BB is responsible for handling billing issues.

This deal is not worth the bother. MQA is a gimmick. It's not truly lossless high resolution. Qobuz is better if you care about audio quality and functionality. Qobuz has a website with deep filtering for metadata and they also have booklets. If you're okay with standard lossless or lossy compression than Apple, Amazon, and Spotify are the way to go.

Tidal won't survive through the next economic slump. Offering ridiculous low price deals like this is a sign of weakness.
twostepopper
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Once you try Tidal you'll never go back to using any other streaming service. The master release quality is amazing.. Worth every penny.

I've had such a positive experience with it. I use it every day and it's blown me away. You will hear sounds in songs that you've never heard before on your favorite albums.

lol this sounds like a fake paid review, but I really do like it. I have every other service as well and this is definitely #1 in quality if you're an audiophile.

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Nov 17, 2021 02:26 PM
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hegemon13Nov 17, 2021 02:26 PM
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Quote from twostepopper :
Once you try Tidal you'll never go back to using any other streaming service. The master release quality is amazing.. Worth every penny.

I've had such a positive experience with it. I use it every day and it's blown me away. You will hear sounds in songs that you've never heard before on your favorite albums.

lol this sounds like a fake paid review, but I really do like it. I have every other service as well and this is definitely #1 in quality if you're an audiophile.
I'll agree with "Once you've tried hi-fi streaming, you'll never go back..."

Hoewever, Apple and Amazon both provide higher quality hi-fi streaming than Tidal at half the cost (or less than half for family plans). Tidal did a great thing by pushing the market to high quality streaming, but their pricing just doesn't make sense anymore. Also, during the three months I tried it, Tidal would not stop pushing hip-hop and current pop music recommendations on me, even though I never listen to it. For what's supposed to be one of their specialties, the Tidal recommendation algorithms are worse than any other service I've tried.
Nov 17, 2021 02:48 PM
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SkivnitNov 17, 2021 02:48 PM
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I just subscribed through Argentina via VPN it's like 1.5 usd a month for hifi
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Quote from Free2Ads :
Qobuz is definitely not superior to Tidal. It has few extra titles in Hi-Res but quality Tidal is better.

My friend had Tidal via BB, luckily he had no issues neither streaming nor billing. Was able to cancel subscription after the year and everything went well. Billing issues may not arise as you are paying for the full year upfront. Only case will be when you don't cancel in time. I wouldn't consider that BB fault as much subscribers negligence. Tidal has nothing to do with billing. You cannot manage subscription thru Tidal when bought from BB.
Both Tidal and Qobuz use the same 16bit audio files for standard lossless streaming.I have verified. Where they start to differentiate is with high res audio. Qobuz allows you to stream true 24bit lossless FLAC files up to 192kHz. Tidal has chosen not to offer lossless high res files. They instead entered into an agreement with Meridian to exclusively use that company's proprietary MQA format as a high res stand-in. MQA is a codec that uses lossy compression. Tests by audio engineers have shown that MQA encoding results in a loss of audio information from the original source file.

In addition to inferior quality Tidal's catalog of faux high res MQA albums and singles is significantly smaller than Qobuz's catalog of 24bit files. This is the result of recording engineers, artists and labels purposely shunning MQA to avoid paying royalty fees to Meridian. Since FLAC is open source and royalty free nearly 100% of high res music is made available through FLAC.

Qobuz is unique because they are the only company offering lossless 24bit streaming. Besides Tidal, other streaming services such as Amazon HD also lack 24bit FLAC. Amazon uses an adaptive bit-rate technology that alters the bit-rate of the playing audio stream to adapt to network conditions. This means that the listener's device is never fed a bit-perfect audio file but instead chunks of differently encoded versions of the same audio track.

So Qobuz is quite unique when it comes to audio quality and no other service has as many 24bit albums as they do. Tidal put their financial self-interest ahead of thier users interests by making that deal.with Meridian.
Last edited by brucknerfan November 17, 2021 at 07:19 AM.
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Nov 17, 2021 03:25 PM
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VonV6621Nov 17, 2021 03:25 PM
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My Tidal subscription was upgraded to hifi at no extra cost this morning. But I've been a subscriber for a few years.
Nov 17, 2021 03:26 PM
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ZephryLinkNov 17, 2021 03:26 PM
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Quote from Skivnit :
I just subscribed through Argentina via VPN it's like 1.5 usd a month for hifi
I have a VPN(Windscribe), can I purchase with a USA credit card?
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Nov 17, 2021 03:38 PM
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Free2AdsNov 17, 2021 03:38 PM
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Quote from brucknerfan :
Both Tidal and Qobuz use the same 16bit audio files for standard lossless streaming.I have verified. Where they start to differentiate is with high res audio. Qobuz allows you to stream true 24bit lossless FLAC files up to 192kHz. Tidal has chosen not to offer lossless high res files. They instead entered into an agreement with Meridian to exclusively use that company's proprietary MQA format as a high res stand-in. MQA is a codec that uses lossy compression. Tests by audio engineers have shown that MQA encoding results in a loss of audio information from the original source file.

In addition to inferior quality Tidal's catalog of faux high res MQA albums and singles is significantly smaller than Qobuz's catalog of 24bit files. This is the result of recording engineers, artists and labels purposely shunning MQA to avoid paying royalty fees to Meridian. Since FLAC is open source and royalty free nearly 100% of high res music is made available through FLAC.

Qobuz is unique because they are the only company offering lossless 24bit streaming. Besides Tidal, other streaming services such as Amazon HD also lack 24bit FLAC. Amazon uses an adaptive bit-rate technology that alters the bit-rate of the playing audio stream to adapt to network conditions. This means that the listener's device is never fed a bit-perfect audio file but instead chunks of differently encoded versions of the same audio track.

So Qobuz is quite unique when it comes to audio quality and no other service has as many 24bit albums as they do. Tidal put their financial self-interest ahead of thier users interests by making that deal.with Meridian.
I think it is irrelevant here who is better as the deal is related to Tidal only so no point we debate on an unrelated topic.
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SeventiesVetNov 17, 2021 03:49 PM
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Quote from VonV6621 :
My Tidal subscription was upgraded to hifi at no extra cost this morning. But I've been a subscriber for a few years.
It looks like Premium is now HiFi as the base plan. So everyone on Premium is now HiFi (lossless streaming). The new high end plan is now called HiFi Plus, with additional higher end audio like MQA.

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Nov 17, 2021 04:29 PM
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mrromero577Nov 17, 2021 04:29 PM
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Quote from Free2Ads :
Your subscription starts immediately as you place order on BB. No point in buying multiples as they will all start at the same time.
Thank you.
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I did this deal a few years ago and the membership wouldn't work with my account. I ended up just moving on.

Moving forward, found out I got charged for a renewal even though I was never able to activate it to begin with. I tried to get a refund and got told no, even though I literally never received the service I paid for.

Don't do the deal, it isn't worth the head ache.
Nov 17, 2021 05:43 PM
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StraightCashHomieNov 17, 2021 05:43 PM
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I love tidal. I have HD660s and Westone W60 headphones and they take full advantage of Tidel high quality of music. I have free spotify membership (my sister pays for it) but i never use it i pay $99 year for hifi tidel subscription through best buy.

I also love their app some people seem to have issues with it but i prefer it over spotify.
Nov 17, 2021 06:38 PM
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enak808Nov 17, 2021 06:38 PM
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im always in for free music subscriptions
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Nov 17, 2021 07:54 PM
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soundsofscienceNov 17, 2021 07:54 PM
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Quote from hotgrease :
Stop trying to make Tidal happen. It's not going to happen!
They are the best at actually paying artists, though.
Nov 17, 2021 08:27 PM
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warrior420Nov 17, 2021 08:27 PM
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I just had to cancel my subscription, because I mainly use the Android app, and it's terrible.. It constantly wouldn't allow me to login. It's a terrible app, I'll try it again, when it gets better.

Also, the service trys to play ramdom songs you might like, and it always goes for some 90s song, like that's going to "Bring me back" or something, because I'm sure they know their audience. But, no, I don't want some old ass song! I want to hear new current music from the the artists that I took forever oletting the damn app know I like. Then it proceeds to give me something else, as if I wouldn't notice... Stop playing old music you have cheap licenses to, play some new stuff!

Whatever, I went back to Spotify. Which is only slightly better. At least I can block explicit songs, and it will play the clean versions of those songs I like. Instead of just not playing the song at all, and only focusing on some that are not originally explicit.
Nov 17, 2021 09:11 PM
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krazydiamndNov 17, 2021 09:11 PM
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Quote from hegemon13 :
I'll agree with "Once you've tried hi-fi streaming, you'll never go back..."

Hoewever, Apple and Amazon both provide higher quality hi-fi streaming than Tidal at half the cost (or less than half for family plans). Tidal did a great thing by pushing the market to high quality streaming, but their pricing just doesn't make sense anymore. Also, during the three months I tried it, Tidal would not stop pushing hip-hop and current pop music recommendations on me, even though I never listen to it. For what's supposed to be one of their specialties, the Tidal recommendation algorithms are worse than any other service I've tried.
So you're saying that Apple & Amazon has even better audio streaming qualiity than Tiday or Quobuzz for that matter?

I agree with their price structure being outdated but once you cancel your service, you get promotions from them for 50% off.

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K3v|nNov 17, 2021 09:33 PM
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when does this deal expire?

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