Tidal mobile app

[David Burns]

I use the above app virtually every day for streaming music via Bluetooth through my s21 ultra to my Sony wf-1000xm5 earbuds. Until yesterday I have always been able to view the bitrate on the now playing page, but this disappeared overnight and now it just shows ‘good’ or ‘max’. So far I have tried restarting my phone and deleting/reinstalling the Tidal app, but still no bitrate showing. Tidal themselves say they cannot explain why this has happened or offer any solution. Anyone here have any ideas please?

[Obsydian]

Short answer its all a con and Tidal post MQA try not to say most of the catalog is a mixed bag, the live bit rate went sometime ago for me.

Personally I have Spotify, Tidal subs, but my hires daily driver is Qobuz.

Anyway moot point Samsung SSC codec means you never get proper HiRes only lossy so dont stress.

[Obsydian]

To add even if the bit rate used to show in Tidal, the device was never capable of lossless.

[Obsydian]

If you want proper Lossless you need dongle and proper hires buds, I tested most and ended up with Creative Labs Aurvana Ace2 and the BTW6, but sadly you loose microphone call and other such functions.

[David Burns]

Thanks. Yes I do understand that ldac is not truly lossless, but just wondered why I could no longer view the bitrate as I’ve always been able to prior to yesterday.

[Obsydian]

Sorry forgot your using Sony buds, either way regardless of what they said it is Tidal restrictions, they dropped it around December 2025, I know because on my home streaming system it went, so I reverted back to my streamer app.

[Obsydian]

A mention here but that delete and reinstall, clear data might work, thought a pain, but as stated its a Tidal move, my suspicion is the entity the floated off with MQA will use this as a snob point the get MQA going again.

PS I did like MQA with a full unfold.

https://www.reddit.com/r/TIdaL/s/BNmWXm72Ee

[David Burns]

Thanks again, but as stated I was always able to view the bitrate right up until yesterday. I use the Tidal app virtually every day.

[Obsydian]

Like I said but since December 25 its no more thanks to Tidal.

[David Burns]

Thought you might be interested to see that this evening I now have the bitrate displaying as normal. No idea why as I’ve made no changes to any settings, it just came back!