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From what I know:
I do feel i need to mention 2 things:
Tidal pays artists way more than spotify or apple music. source
Tidal offers more in terms of audio quality as well. Admittedly, while most of their catalogue maxes out at CD quality FLACs (16-bit, 44.1 khz), they offer up to 24-bit, 192 khz FLACs.
I will, however add that, in my country, Romania, there is no tidal for free, and there is no tidal plus/hi-fi. There is one subscription, named TIDAL, that covers all of the features, at the same price of 24 RON, equivalent to around 6 USD. However, paying from the app, instead of the website, Google takes a cut and the price is higher, so subscribe from the website.
As for the Apple ecosystem, I cannot comment on that, because I don't use an apple device.
I have some ethics issues with how Tidal pushed MQA snake oil for years, charging more for less. Outright deceptive advertising for nothing but the money. I have bigger ethics issues with Spotify funding Rogan though.
Now, Apple is obviously its own titan and almost inherently harmful, but the music department does less active evil than the others. Qobuz seems fine in general so it’s the one I’d rec
I always chased the platform with the best audio quality and was disappointed with Tidal. I used Deezer before switching to Apple Music.
The only annoying thing about Apple Music is Spatial Audio is compressed and sounds bad, but it’s easy enough to switch off.
I think it highly depends which artists you listen to too.
In Romania, they are removing mqa content making everything flacs, which in my opinion is good*, as mqa is lossy compression, labeled as "max". I don't know about the rest of the world, but it might help you.
I have not seen any artists on spotify that weren't on tidal. I do not know about the experience on other music services.
*Quick rant. Mqa cannot be played on browsers, and as such, some of my favorite albums could only be played at CD quality on my desktop computer (running linux). For this reason, I consider this change a good one.
I’m glad they’re choosing to remove MQA (at least there), that was specifically something I didn’t like.
I recently swapped from apple to android and honestly the apple music app works better on android than it did on my iPhone
Apple Music lets you use iTunes music as well. Pay for a song, own it forever. The only other real option like this is Qobuz, which is what I use.
iTunes tracks were (are?) released in poor quality though. Unfortunately most of the time it sounds better to just stream from Apple Music rather than deal with the terrible 128k AAC or whatever it was they used.