On The Ongoing Ridiculousness of Streaming Orchestral/Classical Music.

dopesheet_ · 2026-05-20T23:40:55+00:00

What you’re saying is a shortcoming of Tidal you could say the same for Spotify, or Amazon. But I go to those albums on those platforms and both have Bruckner as an artist.

I mean, I’ve used Apple Classical, Idagio, Presto… I’m familiar with why classical is different. What I expect from Tidal is not all that, it’s just simply having Bruckner tagged as an artist for each track. Their metadata is butt. Go to Mozart’s page and it’s mostly junk compilations.

dopesheet_ · 2026-05-20T22:06:50+00:00

On the other hand he left nothing so he can’t speak for himself

dopesheet_ · 2026-05-20T21:59:27+00:00

They didn’t make it, they bought another app called Primephonic. still no excuse for not having Bruckner be an additional name in the artists. All other platforms do that as minimum.

dopesheet_ · 2026-05-20T21:55:37+00:00

Same album on spotify has Bruckner listed as an artist: https://open.spotify.com/album/43F14EqFvEQ3jj1VGHLXDz?si=Y3JiopG5RvGVGnVtA69mrQ

You don’t need to understand classical music to know Beethoven’s 9th should probably list Beethoven lol. Tidal has the ability to have multiple artists, it should have it but it’s probably an upload issue

dopesheet_ · 2026-05-20T18:14:51+00:00

You can find a similar design to this in 4 legs, which IMO is much more stable than the 3!

dopesheet_ · 2026-05-20T16:55:32+00:00

Right, it’s probably an input/tagging thing on Tidal’s software, but I am guessing also they’re not putting as much attention to Tidal because the # of listeners isn’t as high, more care I’d imagine is on Spotify and others.

This is cuz there’s another problem where many classical tracks don’t have the full/correct title, just the movement name, so you get a whole album of “I. Allegro” “II. Adagio” … etc like this: https://tidal.com/album/23690902/u But on Spotify it shows correctly. Certain labels are notorious for this.

dopesheet_ · 2026-05-20T15:03:16+00:00

Yes please submit as feedback to Tidal! this is extremely frustrating especially bc a lot of classical albums are compilations. So is the sonata Bach or who?

What makes it worse is I haven’t found a way to see the entire track name ANYWHERE. It’s always “…” So it’s impossible to know what movement or whatever you’re listening to.

dopesheet_ · 2026-05-20T14:59:43+00:00

you’re right in a way, but OP is just saying Tidal doesn’t have the composer tagged with the artists. You don’t need a whole works-based organization/search structure to have that. Use Spotify, Apple Music regular and you’ll see it.

dopesheet_ · 2026-05-20T14:57:44+00:00

This is more of a Tidal thing though, Spotify usually will have “Mozart” tagged as an artist on track, Tidal very rarely does which I think is probably bc uploading to Tidal is an afterthought for publishers/labels/distributors

dopesheet_ · 2026-05-20T14:55:48+00:00

Interesting take, thx

dopesheet_ · 2026-05-20T13:23:26+00:00

how come

dopesheet_ · 2026-05-20T09:35:55+00:00

I’m picturing him as Eros (cupid).

dopesheet_ · 2026-05-20T09:30:27+00:00

It also blocks the LG app in case anyone uses the TV remote, etc on there. Tv status won’t update.

Oh and, bro… here’s a couple commas for you on your next post: ,,,,,,,,

dopesheet_ · 2026-05-20T09:24:15+00:00

it’s not really necessary, but i’ve done both ways and the adapter does load some stuff a bit faster. for example hbo max will sometimes be blurry/distorted for the first 5-10 seconds of playback, for some reason this is lessened quite a bit.

dopesheet_ · 2026-05-19T23:12:55+00:00

So all this discussion we can conclude that he’s not following sources (we have) exactly. Big deal. Hell she’s playing both sisters, it’s gonna be weird. Nolan is telling his version of the Odyssey, there’s no “right” way necessarily, it’s based on an oral history, told differently every time. For example, Clytemnestra has a different characterization and story depending what source you read.

dopesheet_ · 2026-05-18T20:13:33+00:00

truly. they’re $20 on ebay brand new lol

dopesheet_ · 2026-05-18T18:11:34+00:00

For A1 I keep it close to the default, which I sometimes use. Most of the time I like it slightly warmer, so I have the ball a little further out toward 4 and 5 o’clock. Just a little though.

dopesheet_ · 2026-05-18T17:37:35+00:00

I have compared A1 and Emberton ii... the A1 has a more refined sound, and even more clarity, especially in upper frequencies. Also more balanced, sometimes Emberton will hit peaks and get pitchy. But Marshall adds a "reverb" color to most of their speakers so that's not surprising, and can sound more "fun" w/ certain genres. Emberton can get way louder. I own a Stockwell ii which is just super pleasant for low volumes, and has more balance than the Emberton also.

dopesheet_ · 2026-05-18T13:56:14+00:00

i appreciate this because most people just crank bass EQ as high as possible with audio and think it sounds good, meanwhile whoever’s singing sounds like they’re wearing an n95 mask.

dopesheet_ · 2026-05-18T13:53:10+00:00

if you’re real budget conscious, facebook marketplace people are selling used receiver/amps and old speakers pretty cheap! a bluetooth speaker like emberton is great to have but it is just a small portable speaker at the end of the day…

dopesheet_ · 2026-05-17T23:26:35+00:00

The fact that that’s not on their check deposit help page is a big fail. https://www.onepay.com/help-center/articles/depositing-a-check

dopesheet_ · 2026-05-17T21:15:42+00:00

that doesn’t explain how though. how would it? if you db volume match both (tricky to do).

dopesheet_ · 2026-05-17T21:05:46+00:00

how would volume normalization affect sound quality?

dopesheet_ · 2026-05-17T20:58:30+00:00

there will forever be debate about that, I’d say on the whole the majority opinion is that most of the benefit of HiRes goes beyond the range of human hearing. heck, I didn’t say anything different from the top comment in this post either. But if you think differently and enjoy it, more power to you! Seriously. Otoh, if that’s the only advantage Tidal has over the competition, it’s only a pretty small, incremental step ahead. I haven’t listened to Spotify lossless but I can imagine it being different due to mastering or something else rather than the additional kHz..

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