I must admit I have been avoiding signing up for any music subscription service because I must be an old guy that prefers to own my music. I still own every single CD I have ever purchased since I was 16 when I got my first CD player for Christmas. That includes a fair share of forgettable CDs (Tiffany, Milli Vanilli, Naughty by Nature, Debbie Gibson, etc). Maybe I keep hearing my Dads voice in my head telling me renting anything is a total waste of money.
Anyway, I just signed up today for Tidal just because I was curious how it integrated with Roon. I justified it to myself by saying that Tidal will actually help me save money.
I must admit the integration with Roon is spectacular! Now I just need to figure out how I am going to reconcile to myself how to use Tidal while also continuing to buy CDs. I suspect using Tidal will probably get me to buy even more CDs!!!
I preview CDs and decide there are some I don’t want to buy, that otherwise I probably would have bought hoping I would like them. In addition, there are lots of albums I sort of like or like parts of them, but don’t really want to buy them. Tidal lets me hear them without buying.
The stuff I really like I buy anyway. Sometimes new artists I buy anyway to support them.
The integration with Roon is fantastic and really improves the Tidal experience and makes it more worth the outlay.
Tidal is great because it allows me to listen to a lot of old stuff I used to have on vinyl Which I didn’t repurchase on CD. Some artists I may only have a partial collection of, and now I can listen the their collection start to finish. Surprising how many old albums I really enjoy. Not to mention, this new MQA stuff is pretty cool.