Tidal Quirks

BradSholl

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So, this may have been discussed previously, but is anyone else slightly annoyed by the Tidal interface? I’m fine with the mixes it compiles but every time I get in my AGT, it starts playing the same song. And…it plays the mix in the exact same order, even if I’ve selected the randomize setting on the previous drive.

First world problems, I guess. But it’d be nice to hear different songs every drive. Anyone know of a workaround?
 
The Tidal app is very poorly designed.

I can't imagine that they intended to make a good app and came out with the one in our cars, so the only other option is they tasked their designers with making the worlds worst musical app interface, ever.
 
Yeah, I've managed to subscribe to, and cancel, Tidal twice in the 5 months I've had this car. The UX is unbelievably bad, unfortunately. I'm sticking with USB audio if I want high quality, and Apple Music via CarPlay if I just want something easy to deal with
 
I got into the habit of pausing the song when I'm done driving or stopping by temporarily.
If I don't, sometimes the Tidal app will play the song again or completely return to the very first song on the tracklist.
I wish they'd incorporate an automatic pause function when the car goes offline.
 
I got into the habit of pausing the song when I'm done driving or stopping by temporarily.
If I don't, sometimes the Tidal app will play the song again or completely return to the very first song on the tracklist.
I wish they'd incorporate an automatic pause function when the car goes offline.
Agree, used to do the same but finally cancel subscription. It works ok in my Polestar2 but not a great app. Can't believe they don't fix it yet considering the negatives impacts of bad publicity. 🤔
 
New Air owner but longtime Tidal user here. The sole upgrade I got on my car was SSP as I've worked in the music industry for decades and great sound is at the top of my list wherever I go, so I was really looking forward to hearing pristine uncompressed tracks and Atmos mixes on this system.

I've got my issues with SSP overall and in general I like it more than I dislike it... however, I gotta say the Tidal interface is truly, mind bogglingly confusing and bad. I thought I was missing something until I read this and similar threads. I came from a Tesla where tapping on an artist would then show albums and tracks by said artist, or tapping an album would then show the tracks on the album--from which you would then pick which song you wanted to hear. For some reason it doesn't work this way in the Lucid. Tapping on an artist just starts playing songs by that artist. Tapping on an album starts playing that album from the beginning. There's no way to really browse through and find what you are looking for. It's driving me crazy.

Is it possible I'm doing something wrong? Based on what I'm reading in these forums it doesn't look that way, but it's designed in such a bizzare manner compared to the Tesla and the first-party Tidal app itself, it's hard to believe something would be implemented like this. Especially with Tidal being the only way I think you can listen to Atmos mixes which is one of Lucid's main selling points for SSP in the first place.
 
New Air owner but longtime Tidal user here. The sole upgrade I got on my car was SSP as I've worked in the music industry for decades and great sound is at the top of my list wherever I go, so I was really looking forward to hearing pristine uncompressed tracks and Atmos mixes on this system.

I've got my issues with SSP overall and in general I like it more than I dislike it... however, I gotta say the Tidal interface is truly, mind bogglingly confusing and bad. I thought I was missing something until I read this and similar threads. I came from a Tesla where tapping on an artist would then show albums and tracks by said artist, or tapping an album would then show the tracks on the album--from which you would then pick which song you wanted to hear. For some reason it doesn't work this way in the Lucid. Tapping on an artist just starts playing songs by that artist. Tapping on an album starts playing that album from the beginning. There's no way to really browse through and find what you are looking for. It's driving me crazy.

Is it possible I'm doing something wrong? Based on what I'm reading in these forums it doesn't look that way, but it's designed in such a bizzare manner compared to the Tesla and the first-party Tidal app itself, it's hard to believe something would be implemented like this. Especially with Tidal being the only way I think you can listen to Atmos mixes which is one of Lucid's main selling points for SSP in the first place.
If you can find a way to get Atmos audio files, they work via USB and sounds pretty good
 
New Air owner but longtime Tidal user here. The sole upgrade I got on my car was SSP as I've worked in the music industry for decades and great sound is at the top of my list wherever I go, so I was really looking forward to hearing pristine uncompressed tracks and Atmos mixes on this system.

I've got my issues with SSP overall and in general I like it more than I dislike it... however, I gotta say the Tidal interface is truly, mind bogglingly confusing and bad. I thought I was missing something until I read this and similar threads. I came from a Tesla where tapping on an artist would then show albums and tracks by said artist, or tapping an album would then show the tracks on the album--from which you would then pick which song you wanted to hear. For some reason it doesn't work this way in the Lucid. Tapping on an artist just starts playing songs by that artist. Tapping on an album starts playing that album from the beginning. There's no way to really browse through and find what you are looking for. It's driving me crazy.

Is it possible I'm doing something wrong? Based on what I'm reading in these forums it doesn't look that way, but it's designed in such a bizzare manner compared to the Tesla and the first-party Tidal app itself, it's hard to believe something would be implemented like this. Especially with Tidal being the only way I think you can listen to Atmos mixes which is one of Lucid's main selling points for SSP in the first place.
It's silliest because they plugged Tidal with a free trial and put it at the front of the SSP use case
 
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