Looking at Tidal and thinking something feels different? You're right! Following its latest app update, Tidal now offers six million songs in hi-res FLAC format.
This isn't the first sniff we've had of this; Tidal's CEO, Jesse Dorogusker, initially announced back in April during an AMA (ask me anything) on Reddit that Tidal would "be introducing hi-res FLAC for our HiFi Plus subscribers soon" and then confirmed in June that six million hi-res FLAC tracks were available in the iOS app to members of the Tidal Early Access Program, but would come to every HiFi Plus subscriber in August. And now here they are.
The thing is, it's refreshing to see a streaming service actually make good on its promises. Spotify, you may remember, initially promised a HiFi tier within the year back in February 2021, but despite several promising signs (screenshots of the Spotify HiFi logo in the app as well as a Spotify HiFi onboarding video leaked by a Redditor) we are still waiting…
