Thread: Tidal Connect

Originally Posted by Blues

The world of online music has changed a lot over the past decade. Future audiophiles buy less, much less music than my generation (53 years old). They accumulate a lot of favorite albums. I've got over 1000 on Tidal. It is becoming more and more difficult to search your favourites. The Tidal app makes it easy to search by artist, alphabetical, by date, etc.

I think this is dead-on. I'm in the generation after you and currently sitting on a Hegel integrated amplifier without MQA support. I currently use a Node 2i for transport of everything digital, but I'm also forced to use its DAC for MQA. I've been thinking about upgrading to a Lumin T2 for transport and DAC for everything except whole-home audio distribution which is still via Chromecast. Although I tolerate Roon, I really prefer to use Tidal Connect and won't be touching the Lumin app with a 10-foot pole, just as my wife will only use Spotify Connect and won't touch the Roon app with a 10-foot pole. Long story short, I feel like I can validate your suspicion that younger people are less inclined to leverage a third-party's integration when a first-party is able to better organize the content.

The point is that I am heavily leaning toward purchasing the T2 and using it exclusively as a Roon endpoint, but support for Tidal Connect could absolutely tip the scales.

I am also very interested in this feature
Globally I use Roon to play music in my Lumin. But having Tidal Connect enabled would give me the choice to use directly Tidal

I am very interested in this feature; it solves my challenge of playing playlists where I might have 100+ songs, which I then have to manually delete song-by-song if I want to remove that particular playlist from my overall list (if that makes sense?) My normal workaround would be to just reset my overall playlist by deleting everything.

I have found myself actively avoiding listening to my Tidal playlists as a result, and just listening to albums, which are far easier to remove from the overall playlist.

Thanks
James

Any update on Tidal Connect? Can we expect this feature to be implemented somewhere this year?

Originally Posted by wklie

We are interested in getting Tidal Connect supported.

Again this does not constitute a promise.

wklie have you been able to form an opinion on if you'll implement Tidal Connect? That would really be the cherry on top for my Lumin T2