u/Alien1996

We've been seeing lot of bad things here every day about the service and the changes that Tidal is implementing, so, I decide to compilate all the work that we are seeing or we are going to see. Like some kind of roadmap and show that this is not a dead app or the negative stuff we read.

I took the points in the AMA that took place late-2025 with the DRI of Tidal at Block, Robert Andersen (aka rsa or u/TemperatureOk7647) to see the road they had in mind:

1. The topic that had the spotlight was IA music: He confirmed Tidal is worry and aware of AI slop and they working in a way to fix it, since the distributors doesn't give them any data to identify them, they are creating a solution.
2. The second topic that got many comments was the issue with artists with the same name sharing a profile: He confirmed Tidal is working on automatically detecting commingled artists but also, they would create a way to artists directly claim their content and that we should expect the issue to get a lot better over time. The solution seems to be the artist claiming their profile through the native app and directly reclaim their content with a buttom. Also with wrong releases in your own profile.
3. For those who are here to create campaigns for other services and starts rumours that Tidal is/was shutting down: He confirmed Tidal is in it for the long term and rumors were *greatly exaggerated*.
4. Tidal Connect was the other high topic that was discussed: He confirmed Connect is a critical part of their ecosystem. They are working to solve the top issues, and Tidal Connect will be improved. Recently Sonos devices were the first to see changes.
5. And for those who ask for remote feature, their first step is to sync the play queues across your account which is the technical foundation for building the remote control feature. They are already working on it and it actually make some changes to the queue function.
6. For those who complain A LOT HERE about the UI changes or bugs on app performance: He knows the UI changes might seem like a *random thing to focus on*, but, explain, *there's also a technical reason*: engineering and design velocity. Tidal **has a lot of legacy code** that doesn't allow them to move as fast they want. Rebuilding the UI allows them to get onto a *new foundation in order to deliver features to customers faster*. The UI is being implemented in all the apps and sections.
7. Tidal silently shipped a fix to the download experience that should solve a lot of the issues and claimed the *system was pretty broken*, also no changes to the download UI/UX yet, which end up happening.
8. He confirmed they are improving search, they are not satisfied with the performance and already devised a strategy to fix it. Seems some here are seeing changes already.

Their focus is Tidal *become a one-of-a-kind music network, be radically artist-centric and economically empower indie artists and want to achieve world-class product.*. We've seen this with the introduction of:

• Tidal Upload: Which allow users to upload their music. Many of us use it as a replacement of local files, kinda like iCloud Music Library on Apple Music.
• Tidal Spotlight: If you share a track publicly using Tidal Upload and it’s selected by the Editorial team for a playlist or in-app feature, you'll be eligible to receive a one-time award of $1,000 USD.
• Tidal Contributions: Allows artists to receive direct support from listeners when they upload music through Tidal.
• Direct-to-fan sales: You can sell your uploads with Tidal taking just 10%. Also, recently we saw a release when a record label signed artist use this tool to promote an exclusive early access to their new single with extra versions of the song.

Additionally to all the points addressed in the AMA, we've seen new tools/features that wasn't announced:

1. Adaptive bitrate: Which based in your connection plays in the quality that will not make buffering while trying to play the song.
2. Playlist collaborations: You just need to add the username and the other person will be able to modify the playlist in their account.
3. Sleep timer.
4. Save for later section: A special place in your library for music that you want to listen to but don't want to like yet.
5. Minor changes like adding quality badges in search results or adding a mini player on desktop. Even some fixing for the new changes like adding back "Playing from" or some details like better matching color.