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Music streaming website focused on sound quality and artist connection

TIDAL

TIDAL is a music streaming platform known for HiFi and HiRes FLAC audio, Dolby Atmos support, artist-centered positioning, playlists, videos, credits, and music discovery.

Core service
TIDAL is a music streaming platform for songs, albums, playlists, videos, credits, and recommendations.
Audio focus
TIDAL support pages describe FLAC, HiRes FLAC up to 24-bit/192 kHz, and Dolby Atmos as supported audio experiences.
Positioning
TIDAL describes itself as artist-first and fan-centered, with a focus on bringing fans closer to artists.
TIDAL is a music streaming website and app known for HiFi and HiRes FLAC audio, Dolby Atmos support, artist credits, videos, playlists, and music discovery.View image on original site

What TIDAL is

TIDAL is a music streaming website and app built around high-quality audio, curated music discovery, artist credits, videos, and fan connections. It competes with services such as Spotify, Apple Music, Deezer, Pandora, and Amazon Music, but it is especially associated with HiFi listening and an artist-centered brand.

Streaming and catalog

Listeners use TIDAL to search for tracks, albums, artists, playlists, videos, and recommended music. The service presents a large licensed catalog through desktop, web, mobile, and connected-device apps, with features that help people save favorites, build playlists, follow artists, and move between casual listening and more focused album playback.

HiFi and HiRes audio

TIDAL's sound-quality identity centers on lossless and high-resolution listening. Its support pages describe High quality as FLAC at 16-bit/44.1 kHz and Max quality as HiRes FLAC up to 24-bit/192 kHz when the specific track, device, settings, and connection support it. The service also supports Dolby Atmos for compatible music and playback systems.

Artist credits and discovery

TIDAL places visible emphasis on artist information, liner-note style credits, editorial playlists, and discovery surfaces. That makes it useful not only for playing a track but also for tracing the producers, songwriters, engineers, performers, and collaborators behind a recording.

Videos, playlists, and devices

Beyond standard song playback, TIDAL includes music videos, curated playlists, artist pages, albums, mixes, and supported integrations for speakers, TVs, cars, DJ tools, and other connected audio equipment. The experience depends on the app, region, subscription status, and whether the connected hardware supports the desired audio format.

Why it matters

TIDAL matters because it pushed audio quality and artist-centered messaging into the mainstream streaming conversation. Its emphasis on FLAC, high-resolution playback, credits, and immersive formats helped keep sound quality, attribution, and musician economics visible in a market often dominated by convenience and scale.

Limits and cautions

High-quality streaming is not automatic. A listener needs the right plan, file availability, settings, network connection, playback device, and audio chain to hear the highest-quality versions. Catalog rights, pricing, recommendations, and features can also vary by country, platform, label delivery, and subscription terms.

WHOIS domain data

Data pulled: May 19, 2026View current WHOIS record

Domain
tidal.com
IP address
13.226.209.123
Registrar
MarkMonitor Inc.
WHOIS server
whois.markmonitor.com
Referral URL
http://www.markmonitor.com
Created
June 8, 1995
Updated
August 2, 2024
Expires
June 7, 2027
Nameservers
ns-196.awsdns-24.com (205.251.192.196); ns-974.awsdns-57.net (205.251.195.206); ns-1865.awsdns-41.co.uk (205.251.199.73); ns-1073.awsdns-06.org (205.251.196.49)
Domain status
clientDeleteProhibited; clientTransferProhibited; clientUpdateProhibited
Contact listing
Registrant organization is listed as Block, Inc. in the US; registrant and technical email use MarkMonitor request forms.