I know that Spotify is considered to have the best algorithm for suggesting new music. However, the sound quality isn’t there. Therefore, I use Tidal for lossless hi-res playback (of at least some of the library). Today, I’ve found that Tidal does a pretty good job suggesting other tracks I would like to listen to after playing an album. Some time back, it was just suggesting rap, and other stuff I didn’t care to listen to.
I don’t use the suggestions options very often. I have several people and places that I look for album and playlist suggestions. I’m not into the current pop chart stuff for the most part, but I do have pretty broad tastes in music, from Jazz, Blues, Rock, Electronic and Classical.
Some of you may wonder what the heck scrobbling is. It’s a method of keeping track what music you listen to, using a service provided by Last.fm You can share your played list with others; you can get suggestions of what else you might like based on your listening choices and it’s a fun way to generate some statistics to look back on as the years go by.
Now I used to scrobble most of what I play when I used Spotify. When I switched to Apple Music the process became unreliable, as Apple Music will only add tuns that you have in your library and not a regular stream.
Now, though, having got some excellent IEMs for Christmas, I have decided to switch streaming again. This time I am going to a Tidal HiFi account. I couldn’t hear the difference on my iPhone before but with these new buds I certainly can. I already could hear the difference between Apple’s AAC stream and Tidal’s CD quality on my desktop but I tend to do most of my listening when on my phone.
For those of you that would like to follow my eclectic musical tastes you can find my scrobbles here
Oh, in case you’re wondering, the IEMs I got for Christmas are the excellent RHA T20i. They are certainly an improvement on my old Bose QC15 cans. There’s no noise canceling but as the noise isolation is so good it’s not really needed. Noise leakage is superb too. I hate sitting next to people with cheap buds and you can hear that tinny sound that’s leaking out and I don’t want to be guilty of that myself. I tend to drive my buds quite hard too.
Here’s to a musical 2019 with plenty of new discoveries!
