I pretty much just gave up using spotify and was sticking to Roon/Tidal. Spotify was constantly giving me issues - adding songs to playlists on my work laptop but wouldn't show up on my phone stopping playback on my work laptop and picking a new album/song and it would flash the "album isn't available" popup so I'd have to walk across the room and start playing music again, then if I wanted to add a song to the queue the whole thing would bug out again. In my home office I have my HiFi setup across the room and was using an old laptop to stream to. I have had all kinds of issues with spotify connect streaming to another laptop. Introducing TIDAL Connect allows us to cater to both groups of customers, and ensure that everyone with a TIDAL account can easily access their favourite tracks. I wonder if that would work and then you could use Plexamp on your phone to control the tunes? I know when I listen to music via Plex, I can back out of the app and it'll still play. Not 100% sure this would be possible, but I wonder if you could use Plex/Plexamp for this? You can login into Tidal through Plex and use it as a frontend.
#Tidal connect tv
I've never tried to run the Tidal app on apple tv so not sure how it functions. It isn’t: Tidal Connect devices will write ‘Tidal Connect’ underneath the hardware device listing (not ‘Chromecast’).Ahh, that makes sense. Furthermore, a handful of Tidal app screenshots uploaded to those same Facebook groups also showed users believing Chromecast support to be a sign of Tidal Connect support. Tidal Connect’s defining feature is that it doesn’t need BluOS. No, isn’t: Bluesound was merely a launch day hardware partner. I’ve also noted a smattering of Facebook users out there in the wilds of MQA and Roon groups asking if Tidal Connect is somehow part of BluOS. Tidal Connect’s list of supported hardware devices is there to keep users up to date. The most common question spilling from readers following the initial Tidal Connect announcement was: when would Tidal Connect be landing on streaming hardware made by brand X? My answer to such questions will always be ‘I don’t know’: 1) If the reality is that I really don’t know then it’s self-evident that I have nothing to share but 2) if I do know, I’m not about to pop the champagne early on the manufacturer’s behalf and spoil their own launch - again, I have nothing to share.
#Tidal connect software
Now our attention turns to streaming hardware manufacturers and their software teams.
#Tidal connect code
And just like Spotify Connect necessitates the supporting code be installed inside any supporting hardware device, Tidal Connect streaming devices must have Tidal’s Connect code installed.
If you’re thinking this sounds a lot like Spotify Connect but with the potential for lossless streaming via Tidal’s Hifi tier, you’re spot on the money. Because I desired better sound quality, I signed up for TIDAL and downloaded the new TIDAL app. Tidal Connect means we only need one of Tidal’s own apps – smartphone, tablet or desktop – to make music play on third party hardware and, crucially, without the stream first travelling through the instigating device (as it does with Apple AirPlay/2 or Bluetooth). For a few weeks, I used it with Spotify Connect with no problem. Two weeks ago streaming service Tidal formally announced its newly-minted Connect service to show us a future in which we wouldn’t need Roon, Plex, Squeezebox or any third-party UPnP app to have our streaming hardware pull down music from Tidal servers.
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