Why does Tidal make it hard to find Dolby Atmos music

[Dog poop]

Fantastic track! But I can't get the picture of the Tarsier from the Sing 2 auditions out of my head now!

 

[Chrry]

This is a little off topic, but it feels like Tidal almost doesn't want me to find Dolby Atmos tracks - not just in the car, in general. If I search on an artist like Jack Johnson, I don't see the Dolby Atmos version of Meet the Moonlight listed as one of the albums. If I search on Jack Johnson dolby or Jack Johnson atmos or Meet the Moonlight dolby or Meet the Moonlight atmos, it doesn't show up as a search result. I can only seem to find it if I go to the Dolby Atmos genre "page" (in an of itself hard to find) and manually grovel through what's there. Even then, the organization is baffling. When I look at one of the various lists of albums, they don't seem to be alpha by artist or alpha by title. Even worse, if I look at the list of tracks, I can't even sort by title or artist or anything. Do others find the useability of Tidal (in the car, on the phone, or PC app) lacking? Or is there a better way I just haven't discovered?

This right here is exactly why I didn’t sign up after my 30 day trial. It would take a lot longer, for me, to figure that whole thing out.

 

[The Gun]

This is a little off topic, but it feels like Tidal almost doesn't want me to find Dolby Atmos tracks - not just in the car, in general. If I search on an artist like Jack Johnson, I don't see the Dolby Atmos version of Meet the Moonlight listed as one of the albums. If I search on Jack Johnson dolby or Jack Johnson atmos or Meet the Moonlight dolby or Meet the Moonlight atmos, it doesn't show up as a search result. I can only seem to find it if I go to the Dolby Atmos genre "page" (in an of itself hard to find) and manually grovel through what's there. Even then, the organization is baffling. When I look at one of the various lists of albums, they don't seem to be alpha by artist or alpha by title. Even worse, if I look at the list of tracks, I can't even sort by title or artist or anything. Do others find the useability of Tidal (in the car, on the phone, or PC app) lacking? Or is there a better way I just haven't discovered?

Hi easy to find Dolby Atmos on the Tidal App on my iphone
Just hit explore and scroll down for Dolby Atmos and hit it to see new Albums and Tracks - this is how I accessed hundreds of Dolby Atmos tracks and many albums. If I have it my Tidal App on phone then this same ones will be on the Tidal App in my Lucid Air signed into my account

Hope this helps

 

[krmanz]

The trick I have found is a pain in the ass. It requires using the phone app:

Go to the artist you want. Scroll down and click on the first album.

Once you're in the album, scroll down past the songs to the section that says 'More Albums by <artist>' and click VIEW ALL.

Now you'll see all versions of all their albums, so if any are Atmos, it'll show.

Now go back to the artist and also look under their EPs & Singles because some Atmos releases aren't full albums.

Lather, rinse, repeat for each artist you want to look up.

I haven't found a good way to just search to see if anything is specifically in Atmos. If I know a song title that is definitely Atmos encoded, I'll search for the title and scroll through the list of all searched tracks until I find it.

Make life easier, Tidal!

This is a great hack-THANK YOU!

 

[Buffalo Bob]

Hi easy to find Dolby Atmos on the Tidal App on my iphone
Just hit explore and scroll down for Dolby Atmos and hit it to see new Albums and Tracks - this is how I accessed hundreds of Dolby Atmos tracks and many albums. If I have it my Tidal App on phone then this same ones will be on the Tidal App in my Lucid Air signed into my account

Hope this helps

Thanks for this, @The Gun! This was a really easy way to navigate through a wealth of Dolby Atmos songs. I don't know if iPhones actually have a button in the Tidal app that says 'explore', but for Android users, just use the magnifying glass icon to get started. Find what you like, hit 'add', and the songs/albums/playlists will be waiting for you when you get to the car. Nice!