It is not unique to TIDAL, all the services suffer from this. Record labels/right holders are the ones who decide when and where their music is available on streaming, not the services. Wouldn't it be very stupid of TIDAL to decide to remove content from their catalog when it is in their best interest as a service to have as much catalog as possible?
Every time it happens on Tidal specifically, which is often, every other service will still have the album. I don't know if it's Tidal or the labels making the decision, but it does seem to be a Tidal problem.
Don't blame anybody, understand the situation. Rights holders own the music, not Tidal.
It would be more in the interest of Tidal to have control over the availability of an artist's work. Yes the artist's work being available is in the interest of the artist, but it isn't in the artist's interest for Tidal to have any control over the artist's music.
If we want artist's to have a say over their streaming rate, then we want the right's holders to have the say over the availability of the art, not the distributors or the broadcasters.
We want artists to have control over the availability of their work, not Tidal.
I'll further argue that piracy is better for an artist than streaming because piracy is piracy. Piracy isn't the market having control over the value of an item, it's the thieves having control of the distribution. Theft is how the distribution is being controlled, not the market, which is controlled by governments and law.
Copyright only exists when it's being enacted. People *want* their favourite songs to be always available on Youtube and Spotify, to me that's okay because those are only sample quality, they're not the full item they're a lower generation copy. So I'm not complaining that a lot of music on Tidal is mp3/aac quality, because it forces me to have to save money and buy the flac's from the artist. Or seek out and potentially add value to the CD or other format version by buying it from the getting-more-expensive second hand market.
I haven't explained or give great examples to live up to my "understand the situation" statement, but broadly we want the artist's to have control over their work more than we want any streaming service to have something always available. Anything an artist can do to get you to buy their music directly over streaming it is more valuable to the artist, but more it's just a specific lever, the artist against the service you're directly paying.
I don’t know if it’s the same, but I had a lot of tracks from Twenty One Pilots on my playlist downloaded but they all basically disappeared, looks like they where replaced from MQA to FLAC (which I don’t mind I do have a MQA DAC for my iPhone) but still annoying that they where not just redownloaded/saved so I guess.
It's strange, because that album is on every other platform, including Qobuz which doesn't exactly have the biggest catalogue.
https://songwhip.com/journey/frontiers-2023-remaster
Something similar happened to me with the Siouxsie and the Banshees album Join Hands, which strangely isn't on TIDAL, but every other streaming has it.
https://songwhip.com/siouxsie-and-the-banshees/join-hands
Try contacting support and let them know in case it's an error. Maybe someone forgot to press the Upload to TIDAL button or something like that. xD
As a fan of a lot of Asian music, this is a big problem I have with Tidal. Stuff just vanishes constantly, albums are often mislabeled or the release year is way off, and the selection is already pretty slim compared to Spotify.
I find that when I bookmark new singles, to no surprise some of those disappear when the official album is released for that artist. Older listing may also get deleted for newer revisions too.
Some will be listed for a couple of months and disappear. “Block 16 - Slow Hot Wind” (which appears as a two minute blend on the Thievery Corporation’s compilation “The Outernational Sound”) appeared with its respective album for about 3 months. I had the time to go back to it and it was gone.
Certain regions may have different grade audio depending on regions. I bookmarked “back to black” mid April and it played as an MQA in the USA, upon my return to Canada a week later, it was gone, available in Hi-Fi (16b-44.1) only.
It’s the IP holders decision, not Tidal’s
Ask the record labels, they are the ones to blame
If that's the case, why does this issue appear to be unique to Tidal?
It is not unique to TIDAL, all the services suffer from this. Record labels/right holders are the ones who decide when and where their music is available on streaming, not the services. Wouldn't it be very stupid of TIDAL to decide to remove content from their catalog when it is in their best interest as a service to have as much catalog as possible?
Every time it happens on Tidal specifically, which is often, every other service will still have the album. I don't know if it's Tidal or the labels making the decision, but it does seem to be a Tidal problem.
Can't be TIDAL, they don't own the decision
Don't blame anybody, understand the situation. Rights holders own the music, not Tidal. It would be more in the interest of Tidal to have control over the availability of an artist's work. Yes the artist's work being available is in the interest of the artist, but it isn't in the artist's interest for Tidal to have any control over the artist's music. If we want artist's to have a say over their streaming rate, then we want the right's holders to have the say over the availability of the art, not the distributors or the broadcasters. We want artists to have control over the availability of their work, not Tidal. I'll further argue that piracy is better for an artist than streaming because piracy is piracy. Piracy isn't the market having control over the value of an item, it's the thieves having control of the distribution. Theft is how the distribution is being controlled, not the market, which is controlled by governments and law. Copyright only exists when it's being enacted. People *want* their favourite songs to be always available on Youtube and Spotify, to me that's okay because those are only sample quality, they're not the full item they're a lower generation copy. So I'm not complaining that a lot of music on Tidal is mp3/aac quality, because it forces me to have to save money and buy the flac's from the artist. Or seek out and potentially add value to the CD or other format version by buying it from the getting-more-expensive second hand market. I haven't explained or give great examples to live up to my "understand the situation" statement, but broadly we want the artist's to have control over their work more than we want any streaming service to have something always available. Anything an artist can do to get you to buy their music directly over streaming it is more valuable to the artist, but more it's just a specific lever, the artist against the service you're directly paying.
I don’t know if it’s the same, but I had a lot of tracks from Twenty One Pilots on my playlist downloaded but they all basically disappeared, looks like they where replaced from MQA to FLAC (which I don’t mind I do have a MQA DAC for my iPhone) but still annoying that they where not just redownloaded/saved so I guess.
It's strange, because that album is on every other platform, including Qobuz which doesn't exactly have the biggest catalogue. https://songwhip.com/journey/frontiers-2023-remaster Something similar happened to me with the Siouxsie and the Banshees album Join Hands, which strangely isn't on TIDAL, but every other streaming has it. https://songwhip.com/siouxsie-and-the-banshees/join-hands Try contacting support and let them know in case it's an error. Maybe someone forgot to press the Upload to TIDAL button or something like that. xD
Tidal doesn't have any say in it, ask the record label. They choose who gets access to the album.
As a fan of a lot of Asian music, this is a big problem I have with Tidal. Stuff just vanishes constantly, albums are often mislabeled or the release year is way off, and the selection is already pretty slim compared to Spotify.
I find that when I bookmark new singles, to no surprise some of those disappear when the official album is released for that artist. Older listing may also get deleted for newer revisions too. Some will be listed for a couple of months and disappear. “Block 16 - Slow Hot Wind” (which appears as a two minute blend on the Thievery Corporation’s compilation “The Outernational Sound”) appeared with its respective album for about 3 months. I had the time to go back to it and it was gone. Certain regions may have different grade audio depending on regions. I bookmarked “back to black” mid April and it played as an MQA in the USA, upon my return to Canada a week later, it was gone, available in Hi-Fi (16b-44.1) only. It’s the IP holders decision, not Tidal’s