Tidal HiFi Plus

Tidal has made some significant adjustments since we tested it in 2021. The fundamentals of its premium HiFi Plus tier are unchanged. It’s still £19.99 a month, making Tidal the most expensive service (there’s no annual sub either), but a lossless HiFi tier has been added for £9.99 a month. Hi-res is exclusively encoded with MQA – the only service to do so. The library seems to have some content other services don’t.

Tidal has really been on a charm offensive with third-party integration. This has always been good, but is now bolstered with the addition of Tidal Connect, which sees it closest to the ‘works-with-everything’ ideal of Spotify. This has been combined with a serious bolstering of curated content too. Tidal now looks at your listening activities and creates a single daily and series of weekly playlists to bring new material to your attention. Using both fairly regularly, I think Deezer’s Flow is better at this but Tidal’s efforts are still impressive and augment some good general playlists.