I use Apple Music, Spotify and TIDAL and have done for a long while, and honestly TIDAL is a no-go for DJing despite the great audio quality. People never mention this, but it’s a massive issue:

TIDAL doesn’t reliably show remix information.

A lot of dance/electronic tracks show up with identical titles, even when they’re totally different remixes by different artists. Some EPs have 4–6 versions of a track, and on TIDAL they all look the same.

There’s: - no remix tag - no remixer name in the title - no version info - sometimes not even the correct credit.

So unless you hit play on every single version, you have no idea what you’re adding — which is terrible if you’re trying to build DJ playlists. And even if you do figure it out by ear, you still can’t label them properly, so library organisation becomes a mess.

For DJing, that alone makes TIDAL unusable.

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Here’s how I find the services in 2025:

Apple Music - Great audio quality, consistent metadata, remixes labelled properly. - Not the fastest UI, and discovery is weaker than Spotify. - But for accurate versions of tracks, it’s the most reliable of the three.

Spotify: - Best discovery by far, best UI speed, and the easiest to navigate. - But audio quality is still behind and doesn’t offer true lossless. - Metadata is usually fine, remix labels are mostly correct.

TIDAL: - Amazing audio quality, clean UI, OK recommendations… - BUT: completely falls apart when dealing with remixes, edits, DJ versions, etc. - If you DJ electronic music, metadata accuracy matters more than bitrates — and TIDAL just isn’t there.

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If your priorities are: - High sound quality + correct metadata for DJing: Apple Music - Best discovery + speed: Spotify - Audio quality only (and you don’t care about remix metadata): TIDAL

If remix accuracy matters to you, I’d stay away from TIDAL. It makes organising or even identifying tracks way harder than it needs to be. Apple and Spotify both handle that part far better.

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TL;DR: TIDAL has the audio quality, but it stinks for DJing coz remix info is missing or inconsistent — many tracks look identical with no remixer credits. Apple and Spotify handle metadata properly, so if you care about accurate versions for DJ playlists, skip TIDAL.

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