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by hedora 1369 days ago
Do Spotify and Apple Music have artist bio's and related bands / albums?

Those (and the spotify-style mixes) are my favorite features of Tidal.

I had mixed luck with Spotify years ago, and never looked back.

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For every artist Spotify currently shows :

- Top 10 tracks.

- Artist posted playlist if any. (Only 1 is shown here, maybe the most popular one ?)

- Entire discography. (Singles, EPs, albums in chronological order)

- Spotify editorial playlists prominently featuring said artist.

- Merch.

- Bio.

- All artist posted playlists.

- Similar artists.

- Soundtracks or albums where the artist was featured.

What's Tidal's killer feature?

I've used Spotify, Deezer, currently Youtube Music because bundled with my premium. I don't like it, I'd like to move, but I'm not sure I can tell why Tidal would provide a better service that's worth the hassle of importing all my playlists. They're all a little crap in their own way.

FLAC audio is cool I guess, but honestly that would not be a good enough selling point for me.

I think Tidal's biggest feature is the HiFi audio that is included in their standard subscription. But aside from that, they do have a great app that does Chromecast (for me) better than YouTube Music even.
Apple Music does have this on most artist pages, except for more obscure ones.