Music mega stars team up to launch the music streaming service “Tidal”

The main selling point for Tidal over anything else is the quality… Tidal’s main claim is that it will offer CD quality streaming using the “Free Lossless Audio Codec” or FLAC – ALAC… The specs say that you’ll get the full CD sampling rate of 44 kHz, 16bit and at a bitrate of 1411kbps.

The service competes with other high-def audio companies like Deezer Elite and Spotify Premium, as well as the likely soon-to-be-relaunched Beats. According to Billboard, the competition is steep: Spotify boasts 15 million subscribers, Deezer has six million and currently Tidal is the smallest at 540,000.